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Actors, some in drag; with the attention focused on a character sitting at a table. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2044190iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Actors, some in drag, pose for a group portrait, in front of a large wooden doorway. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2043878iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
Actors as women and three children at a window looking out over a snowy landscape. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1851.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1851Reference: 36000i- Pictures
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Actors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait as "Cheerokee Minstrels". Photographic postcard by H..E. Howorth, 1904.
Date: [1904]Reference: 2045165iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Actors, one in drag, performing "The man From Toronto", pose on set for a group portrait. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 2043780iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Caring culture : art, architecture and the politics of public health / [editors] Andrea Phillips, Markus Miessen.
Date: [2011]- Books
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The case between the managers of the two theatres, and their Principal Actors, Fairly Stated, and Submitted to the Town.
Date: MDCCXIII. MDCCXIII [1743]- Pictures
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Actors Sawamura Tossho as a young warrior and Nakamura Shikou V as an older man, confronting a common foe. Colour woodcut by Kunichika.
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.Reference: 35211i- Pictures
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A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.
Date: 1838Reference: 11190iPart of: Actors by gaslight- Pictures
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Actors on a bridge at night: two heavily armed warriors (Yoroku and Usumaru) confront a youth (Saraka-maru). Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1857.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 6, 1857Reference: 35840i- Pictures
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Actors in role: a young lover/rebel Shirai Gompachi reading a love letter while being led along by a courtesan's child attendant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 11, 1856Reference: 35859i- Books
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Queries to be answer'd by the manager of Drury-Lane Theatre, For the Satisfaction of the Publick, in regard to the Present Dispute between Him and His Actors.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Pictures
Actors out of role (Nakumura Utaemon on the right and an unidentified actor on the left), possibly at a restaurant; poems from a poetry meeting are posted behind. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1830s.
Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861.Date: [between 1830 and 1839]Reference: 35622i- Books
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The history of Henry Dumont, Esq; and Miss Charlotte Evelyn. Consisting of Variety of Entertaining Characters, and very Interesting Subjects; With some Critical Remarks on Comick Actors. By Mrs. Charke.
Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760.Date: 1756- Books
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The history of Henry Dumont, Esq; and Miss Charlotte Evelyn. Consisting Of Variety of Entertaining Characters, and very Interesting Subjects; With some Critical Remarks on Comick Actors. By Mrs. Charke.
Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760.Date: 1756- Books
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The history of Henry Dumont, Esq; and Miss Charlotte Evelyn. Consisting Of Variety of Entertaining Characters, and very Interesting Subjects; With same Critical Remarks on Comick Actors. By Mrs. Charke.
Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760.Date: 1756- Pictures
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Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1844]Reference: 32500i- Books
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Report of the Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of His Majesty, August 1950.
Great Britain. Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet.Date: 1950- Books
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To be reported by Lord Prestongrange, by special appointment. Minutes in the service of Peter Leslie-Grant, as nearest Protestant heir to his cousin, Ernest Leslie of Balquhain. Actors, Nairn, Gairden, and David Græme, alt. advocatus [sic] Lockhart and Stuart.
Grant, Peter Leslie.Date: 1758]- Books
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An historical view of the Irish stage; from the earliest period down to the close of the season 1788. Interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, and an Occasional Review of the Irish Dramatic Authors and Actors. In two volumes. ... . By Robert Hitchcock, Prompter of the Theatre-Royal, Dublin.
Hitchcock, Robert, -1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]-94- Books
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The history of the stage. In which is included, the Theatrical Characters of the most celebrated Actors who have adorn'd the Theatre. Among many others are the following; viz. Mr. Betterton, Mr. Montfort, Mr. Dogget, Mr. Booth, Mr. Wilks, Mr. Nokes. Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Montfort, Mrs. Gwin, Mrs. Bracegirdle, Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Oldfield. Together with, The theatrical life of Mr. Colley Cibber.
Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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The history of the English stage, from the Restauration to the Present Time. Including the Lives, Characters and Amours, Of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses. With Instructions for Public Speaking; wherein The Action and Utterance of the Bar, Stage, and Pulpit are Distinctly considered. By Mr. Thomas Betterton. Adorned with Cuts.
Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The touch-Stone: or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Designed for the Improvement of all Authors, Spectators, and Actors of Operas, Plays, and Masquerades. In which every Thing antique, or modern, relating to Musick, Poetry, Dancing, Pantomimes, Chorusses, Cat-Calls, Audiences, Judges, Criticks, Balls, Ridottos, Assemblies, New Oratory, Circus, Bear-Garden, Gladiators, Prize-Fighters, Italian Strollers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, Is occasionally handled. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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The touch-Stone: or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Design'd for the Improvement of all Authors, Spectators, and Actors of Operas, Plays, and Masquerades. In which every thing antique, or modern, relating to Musick, Poetry, Dancing, Pantomimes, Chorusses, Cat-Calls, Audiences, Judges, Criticks, Balls, Ridottos, Assemblies, New Oratory, Circus, Bear-Garden, Gladiators, Prize-Fighters, Italian Strolers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, is occasionally handled. By a person of some taste and some quality. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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British portraits. A Catalogue of a Genuine and Extensive Collection of English Portraits Consisting of the Royal Families, Peers, Gentry, Clergy, Lawyers, Military, Literary, Artists, Actors, Writing-Masters, Musicians, Female Sex, Phenomena, Convicts, Monsters, &c. From Egbert the Great to the Present Time; Comprising the Choicest [illigible] of Delaram, Elstrack, Faithorne, [illigible] Loggan, Lumley, the Pass's, Place, Smith, [illigible] White, &c. And nearly the whole that have been engraved after Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other Modern Artists, most of them Proofs, many Private Plates, and Unique Prints, not to be found in any other Collection, with Biographical and Genealogical Remarks. By an Eminent Collector, During the last Forty Years. The Collection is in perfect Preservation, and the [illigible] [illigible] with Sixty Solander Port-[illigible] Uniformly [illigible] and Print-[illigible] with Sliding [illigible] Which Will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Richardson, At his House, No. 31, the Corner of Villiers-Street, in the Strand. In two Parts, The First, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the Seventeen following Days; the Second Part, on March 3, and the Twelve following Days, at Twelve O'Clock
Richardson, William, active 1778-1815.Date: [1800]