Roles Collection (page 5)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Ellaline"in "The Amber Heart"(b / w photo)
3651218 Miss Ellen Terry as " Ellaline" in " The Amber Heart" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Cordelia"in "King Lear"(b / w photo)
3651215 Miss Ellen Terry as " Cordelia" in " King Lear" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Ellen Terry (b / w photo)
3651237 Miss Ellen Terry (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Ellen Terry)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Madame Sans Gene"(b / w photo)
3651233 Miss Ellen Terry as " Madame Sans Gene" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Fair Rosamund"in "Becket"(b / w photo)
3651214 Miss Ellen Terry as " Fair Rosamund" in " Becket" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Imogen"(b / w photo)
3651210 Miss Ellen Terry as " Imogen" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Dr Charles Barber as Mr Micawber and Miss Hellier as Mrs Micawber, April 1936, in a scene from the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield. 1936

Children addressing the birds in the zoo (chromolitho)
972427 Children addressing the birds in the zoo (chromolitho) by Andre, Richard (1834-1907); Private Collection; (add.info.: Children addressing the birds in the zoo)

Polar bear being fed ice cream sundae by children (chromolitho)
972423 Polar bear being fed ice cream sundae by children (chromolitho) by Andre, Richard (1834-1907); Private Collection; (add.info.: Polar bear being fed ice cream sundae by children)

The parliamentary female
Father of the family: " Come, dear; we so seldom go out together now- can t you take us all to the play tonight!" Mistress of the House, and MP: " How you talk, Charles

Marchande de Petits Dejeuners (chromolitho)
975978 Marchande de Petits Dejeuners (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Marchande de Petits Dejeuners)

Loueuse de Chaises (chromolitho)
975966 Loueuse de Chaises (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Loueuse de Chaises. French educational card, late 19th/early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Marchand d Habits (chromolitho)
975965 Marchand d Habits (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Marchand d Habits. French educational card, late 19th/early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Vitrier (chromolitho)
975964 Vitrier (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vitrier. French educational card, late 19th/early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Fort de la Halle (chromolitho)
975959 Fort de la Halle (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fort de la Halle. French educational card, late 19th/early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Repasseur de Couteaux (chromolitho)
975958 Repasseur de Couteaux (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Repasseur de Couteaux)

Sir George Alexander and Dame Irene Vanburgh in The Thief
Sir George Alexander (1858-1918) - British Actor, Theatre Producer and Theatre Manager and Dame Irene Vanburgh (1872-1949)

Lily Brayton and Ben Webster in Kismet
Miss Lily Brayton (1876-1953) in the role of Marsinah and Mr Ben Webster (1864-1947) in the role of Abdullah in the play Kismet. Date: 1912

Miss Lily Brayton and Mr Henry Ainley
Miss Lily Brayton, Actress (1876-1953). In the role of Rosalind in the William Shakespeare play As you Like It, alongside Henry Ainley (1879-1945) in the role of Orlando. Date: 1911

In 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was licensed to practice medicine as the first woman
3478837 In 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was licensed to practice medicine as the first woman doctor, 1867 by Du Maurier, George (1834-96); (add.info.: In 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)

Miss Ellen Terry and Miss Ailsa Craig in "Henry VIII"(b / w photo)
3651216 Miss Ellen Terry and Miss Ailsa Craig in " Henry VIII" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Ellen Terry and Mrs Stirling in "Romeo And Juliet"(b / w photo)
3651227 Miss Ellen Terry and Mrs Stirling in " Romeo And Juliet" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Woman from Timbuktu, mother of thirty children (b / w photo)
6015488 Woman from Timbuktu, mother of thirty children (b/w photo) by European Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Woman from Timbuktu, mother of thirty children)

Czech woman wearing a headdress of ribbons where each ribbon denotes a suitor she refused in marriage (b / w photo)
6015482 Czech woman wearing a headdress of ribbons where each ribbon denotes a suitor she refused in marriage (b/w photo) by Czech Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Japanese women at a picnic wearing western clothes (b / w photo)
6015478 Japanese women at a picnic wearing western clothes (b/w photo) by Japanese Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Japanese women at a picnic wearing western clothes)

Margaret Lindsay Williams, Welsh royal portrait artist working on a painting of Princess Elizabeth
6015463 Margaret Lindsay Williams, Welsh royal portrait artist working on a painting of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret (b/w photo) by English Photographer

Woman enjoying a milk foam bath beauty treatment (b / w photo)
6015458 Woman enjoying a milk foam bath beauty treatment (b/w photo) by European Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Woman enjoying a milk foam bath beauty treatment)

Child bride being married to a much older man, India (b / w photo)
6015446 Child bride being married to a much older man, India (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Child bride being married to a much older man, India)

Woman having a body wax beauty treatment (b / w photo)
6015441 Woman having a body wax beauty treatment (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Woman having a body wax beauty treatment)

Woman having a facial massage beauty treatment (b / w photo)
6015440 Woman having a facial massage beauty treatment (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Woman having a facial massage beauty treatment)

Women working on a silk mill in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire (b / w photo)
6015425 Women working on a silk mill in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Mr Burchett, Londons favourite tattooist, working on a design on a womans arm (b / w photo)
6015419 Mr Burchett, Londons favourite tattooist, working on a design on a womans arm (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Burchett)

Sewing and mending, c. 1950 (b / w photo)
5998656 Sewing and mending, c.1950 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sewing and mending, c 1950)

"The Mathew-Orama for 1824", pub. by G. Humphrey, 1824 (coloured etching)
CWA124822 " The Mathew-Orama for 1824", pub. by G. Humphrey, 1824 (coloured etching) by Cruikshank, Isaac Robert (1789-1856) & George (1792-1878); City of Westminster Archive Centre

Miss Ellen Terry, 1865 (b / w photo)
3651264 Miss Ellen Terry, 1865 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Ellen Terry, 1865)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Viola"in "Twelfth Night"(b / w photo)
3651226 Miss Ellen Terry as " Viola" in " Twelfth Night" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Nance Oldfield"(b / w photo)
3651213 Miss Ellen Terry as " Nance Oldfield" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Ellen Terry as "Madame Sans Gene"(b / w photo)
3651208 Miss Ellen Terry as " Madame Sans Gene" (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Seal canooing (chromolitho)
972424 Seal canooing (chromolitho) by Andre, Richard (1834-1907); Private Collection; (add.info.: Seal canooing. Illustration for Dream of the Zoo (Perry & Co, c 1880).); © Look and Learn

Elephants and flamingoes (chromolitho)
972417 Elephants and flamingoes (chromolitho) by Andre, Richard (1834-1907); Private Collection; (add.info.: Elephants and flamingoes)

Ecaillere (chromolitho)
975976 Ecaillere (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ecaillere. French educational card, late 19th/early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Ramasseur de Bouts de Cigares (chromolitho)
975975 Ramasseur de Bouts de Cigares (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ramasseur de Bouts de Cigares)

Chiffonnier (chromolitho)
975969 Chiffonnier (chromolitho) by Borgex, Louis (fl.1897); Private Collection; (add.info.: Chiffonnier. French educational card, late 19th/early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Girls from the Womens League of Health and Beauty (b / w photo)
6015521 Girls from the Womens League of Health and Beauty (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Girls from the Womens League of Health and Beauty)

Womens exercise and deportment class (b / w photo)
6015497 Womens exercise and deportment class (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Womens exercise and deportment class)

Woman having her hair permed at a beauty salon (b / w photo)
6015494 Woman having her hair permed at a beauty salon (b/w photo) by European Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Woman having her hair permed at a beauty salon)

Women having a skin whitening facial treatment at a beauty parlour in Harlem, New York (b / w photo)
6015479 Women having a skin whitening facial treatment at a beauty parlour in Harlem, New York (b/w photo) by American Photographer (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Ellen Wilkinson, British Labour MP addressing a Trafalgar Square peace demonstration (b / w photo)
6015471 Ellen Wilkinson, British Labour MP addressing a Trafalgar Square peace demonstration (b/w photo) by English Photographer

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"The Favourite Wins: Celebrating the Versatility of Roles" H. M. Bateman's iconic illustration, "The Favourite Wins, " captures the essence in society, showcasing how individuals can rise to prominence. Errol Flynn's unforgettable performances at Warner Bros exemplify his ability to seamlessly transition between different roles, captivating audiences with his versatility. Fulton Mackay and Sprocket filming in Cornwall demonstrate the dedication actors have towards their craft as they immerse themselves in various roles, bringing stories to life on screen. The cover for a brochure advertising Triplex Grates/Ranges reminds us that even everyday objects play important supporting roles in our lives by providing comfort and functionality. Patons knitting wools advertisement during WW1 highlights the vital role played by knitters who provided warmth and solace through their handcrafted creations for soldiers on the front lines. Adelina Patti, an extraordinary opera singer from 1843-1919, showcased her talent across diverse musical genres throughout her illustrious career – a true testament to her ability to embrace different roles within her artistry. William Kemp's legacy as a dancer showcases how performers push boundaries and explore new artistic territories while assuming various dance styles and characters throughout history. An advertisement featuring a woman patiently cleaning with the Western Electric vacuum cleaner emphasizes how household chores are essential but often overlooked roles that contribute to maintaining cleanliness and orderliness within homes. Mary Casson brilliantly portrayed Sir Gerald du Maurier in Barrie's Dear Brutus, reminding us of the transformative power of acting where one person can assume multiple identities through their portrayal of different characters or historical figures. Mrs A. E Grant (Bettine Stuart-Wortley) serving as a nurse during WW1 symbolizes women stepping into crucial caregiving roles during times of crisis when their compassion and expertise were desperately needed on the front lines.