Herbert Rose Barraud :: Sibyl (Sybil) Grey, Leonora Braham and Jessie Bond as the Three Little Maids in ‘The Mikado’, a comic opera of Gilbert & Sullivan. Published by Carson & Comerford, woodburytype, published 1 July 1885. The librettist William Schwenck Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan are among the most celebrated names of the Victorian stage. Their collaboration lasted from 1871 to 1896 and produced the masterpieces of comic opera, HMS Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1880), The Mikado (1885) and The Gondoliers (1890). The works are collectively known as the Savoy Operas after the theatre that was built for their performances by the impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte in 1881. | src NPG
Benjamin J. Falk :: Geraldine Ulmar, Kate Forster, and Geraldine St. Maur as “The little maids from school” in the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company stage production The Mikado (Gilbert And Sullivan). ca. 1890-1895| src NYPL
Deep Sea Diver. ‘Carte de visite’ by an anonymous photographer. An
individual wearing a Morse Diving Helmet and an insulated suit stands in
a photographer’s studio holding a submarine oil lamp. A modern pencil identification on the back of
the mount of this image names this diver as “Hyde,” and is associated
with a tintype of a man in the uniform of a Union sailor. | src Ronald S. Coddington
Franz Xaver Setzer :: Dancer Lo Hesse, about 1918. (Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel) | src Getty ImagesGrainer (München) :: German dancer Lo Hesse | German postcard by Verlag Hans Dursthoff, Berlin, nº 1170. Photo Grainer, Munchen. Collection Didier Hanson | src Flickr
Lo Hesse was active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Her dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the German expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg. | src Flickr
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