- 2008.001.1669
- Item
- ca. 1950
Item is a studio headshot with white border, depciting man in suit jacket and tie. Recto ink stamp "Don Cornell." Verso ink stamp "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot with white border, depciting man in suit jacket and tie. Recto ink stamp "Don Cornell." Verso ink stamp "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot of large man with pinstriped jacket and flowered tie. Verso ink stamps "Tony Pastor," "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot of man with blonde hair in tuxedo jacket and bow tie. Recto ink stamp "Guy Mitchell." Verso ink stamp "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot of man with dark curly hair in shit jacket and tie. Recto ink stamp: "Eddie Fisher." Verso ink stamp "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot with white border. Depicts a man in suit jacket and tie with slicked-back hair. Recto ink stamp: "Art Lund." Verso ink stamp "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot of man with curly hair, wearing jacket, sweater vest and tie. Verso ink stamps: "Vic Damone," "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot of man with moustache wearing jacket and tie. Recto ink stamp: "Cab Calloway." Verso ink stamp: "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot of man with suit jacket and tie. Verso ink stamp "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto." Verso inscription "Frankie Lane.
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio portrait of man wearing white jacket and dark pants, no tie. Possible copy print of existing print. Recto inscription on negative or original print: "To a swell 580 member, fondly, Sinatra." Verso ink stamp: "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio headshot of man with pinstripe suit and checked tie. Verso ink stamps "Oscar Peterson," "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a studio portrait of man with moustache, leaning his chin on his hands. Recto ink stamp: "Dizzy Gilespie." Verso ink stamp: "This portrait through courtesy of A. Gilbert Studios, Toronto."
A. Gilbert Studios
Item is a grey bi-fold card with silver embossed art nouveau pattern at upper left (floral). Inside potrait of a woman in sheer dress holding a violin. At bottom right, in black letterpress, "Barrett Studio/ 327 YONGE ST./ TORONTO."
Barrett Studio
Portrait of girl playing violin
Grey card with texture. Photography of a girl in short white dress and a bow in her hair playing violin. Art nouveau screen behind her, along with medieval-style x chair. At bottom, embossed in silver, "Edwards & Co" with an image of a royal crown at centre and on the right "STRATFORD/ FOREST GATE/ AND EAST HAM." On verso, in pencil "23 078".
Edwards & Co
Portrait of a young man in Highland dress
Item consists of a grey card with green letterpress at bottom, "Henderson,/ Artist/ LINCOLN AVE,./ YORK, NEB." Photograph is a full length portrait of a young man in suit jacket with high starched collar wearing a kilt and tartan sask and holding a flute.
Henderson
[Portrait of a man in costume]
Item is an unmounted portrait of a man standing against a studio backdrop of a castle in the mountains with a lake and flowers in foreground. He right arm is held behind his back, the left one hangs at his side. His feet are apart, and he wears dark slippers with dark leotards. His shirt hangs down to mid-thigh, and is fringed around the bottom and at the sleeves. It has a pattern of leaves on it. He is blond, and his cheeks are tinted pink. He stands still with the aid of a body stand. Top and bottom left corners angled off.
Lillian Russell, born Nellie Leonard in Clinton, Iowa in 1861, was a famous comic opera actress in New York city. She made her stage debut in "Time Tries All" in Chicago in 1877 before moving to New York in 1879 and continuing her career in musicals, burlesque and dramatic shows. Near the end of her life, she was appointed as a special investigator to study immigration conditions by President Harding. She presented a report to the United States Department of Labor that suggested an "immigration holiday" of 5 years, the sifting of immigrants on the other side, and 21 years residence in the US before naturalization. See "Lillian Russell Dies of Injuries", The New York Times, June 6, 1922, pp. 1-2. Retrieved on December 15, 2010.
Item is a cabinet card portrait featuring an image of Rose Lee.
Waters, H.
American actress, appeared in Richard Stahl's operetta "The Sea King".
Item is a cabinet card featuring a portrait of Maggie Moore, American-Australian actress, sitting on a railing.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of English actress and singer, Jennie Beauclerc.
Item is a cabinet card featuring an image of Emma Hoffman.
Waters, H.
American actress, burlesque performer. She is recorded as having performed in "Our Cinderella: A Burlesque" by William Gill in the Colville Company's 1878-9 season, and in "The Magic Slipper" for Haverley's Theater in New York in August 1879, produced by Samuel Colville's Opera Burlesque Company.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of theatre actress Viola Clifton
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Carrie Hapgood, actress.
Waters, H.
Mary Anderson as Juliette, 1859-1940
Photograph of the stage actress Mary Anderson as Juliette in Shakespere's Romeo and Juliette.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card featuring an image of an unknown actress sitting on a bench adjusting her stocking.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Broadway theatre actress Venie Clancy.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of American actress Lizzie McCall.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Mabel Stantley.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of American actress Louise Montague.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of American burlesque theatre actress Lizzie Webster.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Maude Branscombe, British popular celebrity, stage beauty and light opera singer.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of actress Lizzie McCaul.
Waters, H.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Marion Manola, American actress.
Item is a photograph of the actress Marie Heath, known as "The Little Sunbeam." Credited in the production of "For Mother's Sake" (1904) produced by Rusco and Holland, minstrel company, Cincinnati & New York.
Harrison
Item is a cabinet card portrait of a young woman wearing a dress leaning over a ledge.
Falk, B.J.
Item is a cabinet card portrait of a young woman leaning back on a garden bench.
Falk, B.J.
American actress and "Gaiety Girl", Jennie McNulty was the leader of the Chroisters' Association in 1895, a predominately women's club with four small rooms for reading, writing, and relaxing and two large rooms for rehearsals.
Newsboy Tobacco Company
Professor McRae - Musical wonder
Item is a cabinet card portrait of a man sitting on a raised stool holding a violin attached to a trumpet and piano by a number of strings.
Howie
Item is a cabinet card portrait of actress Louise Eissing.
Newsboy Tobacco Company
Item is a cabinet card portrait of Broadway actress Estelle Clayton lounging in a studio set that appears as rocks with a lake in the background.
Newsboy Tobacco Company
Item is a cabinet card portrait of actress Kate Stokes.
Newsboy Tobacco Company
Item consists of a photograph of a group of musicians with brass instruments (and 1 drum) posed on a residential street. They are all dressed like clowns. Photograph is mounted on a card backing, and handwritten on the verso, "g(?)".
Joyce Grenfell bids you a "God Evening" at the Eaton Auditorium
Item consists of a program for a performance by Joyce Grenfell, with George Bauer accompanying, at the Eaton Auditorium on November 8th and November 13th, 1956.
Item is a publicity portrait of Beniamino Gigli, an Italian operatic singer who sang for many Italian opera companies and debuted for the Metropolitan Opera in 1920. He is shown in profile, with one foot resting upon a chair. Black ink inscription on surface of photograph reads, 'Bgigli Montreal 1925'
Mishkin