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Actors out on a summer's evening, enjoying the fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge. Colour woodcut by Kuniyasu, late 1810s.
Utagawa, Kuniyasu, 1794-1832.Date: [late 1810s]Reference: 35338i- Pictures
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Actors, some in drag, performing at a prisoner of war camp in Belgium. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2060499iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Actors, some in drag, pose for Ernie Payne and Bennie Browne's "New Signals" revuette. Photographic postcard, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929]Reference: 2045166iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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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
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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.- Pictures
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Actors in pantomime in Brighton: S. West playing King Robert of Remlaf and H. Taylor in drag as Queen Aggie of Remlaf. Photographic postcard.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 2064360iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- 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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Actors dressed as a clowns, performing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2060498iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Caring culture : art, architecture and the politics of public health / [editors] Andrea Phillips, Markus Miessen.
Date: [2011]- 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- 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]- 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- 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 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 elements of dramatic criticism. Containing an analysis of the stage, under the following Heads, Tragedy, Tragi-Comedy, Comedy, Pantomime, and Farce. With a Sketch of the Education Of the Greek and Roman Actors; concluding with some general instructions for succeeding in the art of acting. By William Cooke, Esq; Of the Middle Temple.
Cook, William, -1824.Date: 1775- 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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An answer to Mr. Pope's preface to Shakespear. In a Letter to a Friend. Being a vindication of the Old Actors who were the Publishers and Performers of that Author's Plays. Whereby The errors of their Edition are further accounted for, and some Memoirs of Shakespear and Stage-History of His Time are inserted, which were never before collected and publish'd. By a Stroling Player.
Roberts, John, 1712?-1772.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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A jovial crew: or, the merry beggars. A comedy. Acted both at the Queen's Theatre, and the Theatre-Royal, at the same time, with the Actors Names who Play'd it at both Houses: And after, upon the Uniting both Companys into One, in Drury-Lane. Likewise all the songs, and a key to the beggars cant. Written by Richard Brome, Author of the Northern Lass.
Brome, Richard, -1652?.Date: [1708]