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A twenty two page (forty four sides including supplement ) issue of
" The Sketch "
Weekly Magazine dated 1906 price sixpence.
A wonderful insight into theatre, stage, society,royalty, sport, fashion and many other activities of the day, "a journal of art and actuality".
It features articles and prints from engravings, photogravures, photographs, sketches etc. including :
' Mr Seymour Hicks Who Has Brought an Action for Criminal Libel ' Full front page, a photograph by Ellis and Walery
' The Most Mysterious Railway Accident of Recent Years - The Wreck of the Scotch Express at Grantham ' a full page of the wreck and workmen with two insets - ' The Points of Life and Death, The Line the Express Should Have Taken and the Line it Took - - - The Broken Window Through Which the Front Guard Knighton, Escaped Unhurt '. The article describes the accident and states "in addition to the curve theory of the accident there have been advanced the possibility that the brakes of the engine failed to act, and that something may have happened to the drivers brain "!
' Of Great Interest to Stamp Collectors: The New French Ten Centime Stamp as It Ought to Be, And as It Was First Produced ' Philatelists
' A Famous French Dancer in a Curious Pose: Mlle. Regina Badet '
' A Typical "Sweet Girl Undergraduate" at Marischal College, Aberdeen '
' The Towers of the New Buildings of Marischal College, Aberdeen, To Be Opened by The King To-morrow (Thursday)' The view taken looking down School Hill to Upper Kirkgate - a wonderfull full page photograph showing people, a cobbled street, horse and carts, and the corner of St Nicholas Street
' The Wedding of aq Millionaire's Daughter to Her Fathers Chauffeur: Mr and Mrs John Henry Fellows at Their Home at Thames Ditton ' daughter of Mr Sydney Howard Farrar
' Elaborate Religious Ceremonial In North West London: The Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Willesden ' The Archbishop of Selencia and Canon Brennan of Marylebone and others
' Successor to "The Uncorruptible": General Diediulin Who Has Succeeded The Late General Trepoff as Governor of St Petersburg '
' Mohammedanism in England - The New Mosque That is Likely to be Erected in London at a Cost of £100,000 ' work of Mr W. J. Chambers architect of the mosque at Woking
' Aunt to Lady Kitty Vincent: Lady Winifred Gore ' a young girl
' The Wife of the Ex Administrator of Nigeria - Lady Lugard '
' A Pretty Competitor in the Eastbourne Tennis Tournament: Miss K. Kentish '
' A Modern Edward III - Not at Crecy: A Scout of The Red Force Using the Old Mill at Halnaker Down as an Observation Station During the Military Manoeuvres '
' The Only Jew in Congress - Mr Julius Kahn Who Was One an Actor '
' The Clergyman Who Cuts " Obey " From the Marriage Service - The Rev. J. S. Blamer '
' The Lord Provost of Aberdeen - Mr Alexander Lyon, Host of the King at The Luncheon After the Opening Ceremony '
' Wife of the Lord Provost of Aberdeen - Mrs Lyon '
' Architect of the New Marischal College Buildings - Mr A. Marshall MAckenzie ARSA '
' The Principal of Aberdeen University - The Very Rev. John Marshall Lang DD LL.D '
' The Rev G. E. Thorn in the Armour on Which He Preached Last Sunday ' full page photograph of the Rev. in his armour in a garden
' Fish That Can be Drowned: Walking Fish ' drawing
' Operating on Parcels Broke in the Wars ' - A Post Office worker repacking a pair of shoes
Our Wonderful World!
' Drawing a Cork With the Feet: An Armless Girl Helps a Friend to a Drink '
' Another Kind of Drawing With The Feet: An Armless Girl As Artist '
' The Head of an Oar Fish With Open Mouth, Washed up onthe Beach Near Hokitika New Zealand ' fish only
' Standing on His Head onthe Top of a Steeple: A Daring Slater 's Feat, Rivallin Those of the Professional Gymnast '
' The Tomb of Alexander The Great 's Charger, Bucephalus at Mandra, Near Rawal Pindi '
' The Result of Building on Sand: A Sunken Flour Store at Tunis '
' An Unusual Patient: An Elephant Warmly Clothed to Cure it of Rheumatism '
' Celebrating the HUndred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Mozarts Birth at Salzburg: Miss Geraldine Farrar, Mr Moser and Company in "Don Juan" ..'
' Miss Evelyn Millard Who is to Play Maid Marian to Mr Lewis Waller 's Robin Hood ' full page of the lady
' The Modern Autolycus - An Autumn Tale, The End of the Season ' full page comical sketch by Dudley Hardy - a Tramp on the beach
' A Ready Undertaking - The Dismal Old Lady and The Oleaginous Elderly Shopman ' Full page comical skect by H. M. Brock, a scene in a shoe shop
' Ferocious Feathered Babies: A Brood of Kestrels in Their Nest '
' The Adam of Railway Carriages - Preserved at The Soho Works Shildon '
' Extraordinary Carving on a Tmbstone in Heysham Churchyard Morecambe Bay '
' Not Traitors Head From Temple Bar but Seed Pods of the Snapdragon ' full page photograph by Faideau'
' Echo From the Painting By Ernest Normand '
' Imported From Canada - Lacrosse as It Is Played ' - a full page showing sixteen different manouvres in Lacrosse - a photogravure by Reinhold Thiele
' Complicated MAchinery to Imitate The Nerves and Muscles: The Works of a Mechanical Man ' Full page
' A Sea Serpent in the Thames ' five comical cartoons by the famous Benjamin Rabier on a full page p> ' The Rakes Progress Being The Story of a Canine Rakewell - He Takes to Drink ' a full page comical sketch by G. Vernon Stokes showing the drunk terrier dog and a cat in the background
' American Farce in London: Mr William Morris in "MRs Temple 's Telegram " at the Waldorf '
' American Comedy in London: Mr H. R. Roberts at The Criterion '
' Long May It Be Unoccupied! Mme Sarah Bernhardt's Tomb in Pere La Chaise Cemetery, Paris '
' A Thirteen Year Old Master of the Violin - Master Joska Szigeti '
' The Wife of the Famous Violinist at Lunch with Her Husbands Brother Officers: Mrs Fritz Kreisler with Officers of the Austrian Army '
' A New Gliding Boat - The Lambert Hydroplane on Trial '
' Run Over Each Night bya Two Ton Motor Car - The Living Crushed One in Paris '
Prominent Players in the Eastbourne Tennis Tournament
' Miss D. K> Douglass Winner of the Ladies Open Singles and Mixed Doubles '
' Mr A. F. Wilding Winner of the Gentlemens Open Singles and Doubles '
' Mrs Sterry Winner of the Ladies Doubles '
' Miss Morton Winner of the Ladies Open Doubles '
' Mr G. W. Hillyard Winner of the Mixed Doubles '
' Mr H. MArrett Winner of the Gentlemens Open Doubles '
Fashions - ' Caracal and Ermine ' Coat Muff and Hat - - - ' A Fashionable Sealskin Coat ' hat and muff
' Illinois Centrals Double Track Concrete Bridge Across Big Muddy River, Ill. '
The Sketch Supplement
' Wrights Coal tar Soap ' advert
' Miss Marie Tempest Who Is Making Her First Appearance on The Music Hall stage ' Full page "Drawn at a Special Sitting by Frank Haviland "
'..." The Winters Tale " at His Majesty's Theatre - Mr Julius Knight - Mr Lyn Harding - Mr Basil Gill - M. Miel - Master Tonge - Mr J. Fisher - Full page
' Veve Le Sport! - How the Frenchwoman Goes Fishing ' Full page photographic study of a lady fishing
' Miss Lily Brayton as Iseult in "Tristram and Iseult" at The Adelphi ' double page showing three photographs of the lady in costume
' ..."The Bondman" at Drury Lane - Miss Henrietta Watson - Miss Marie Illington - Mr Henry Neville - Mr Oscar Adye ' Full page
' A Sulphur Mine on the London Stage - "The Bondman" at Drury Lane - Jason Saves Michael in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily - Mr Henry Ainley - Mr Frank Cooper ' Full page
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' ..."The Bondman" at Drury Lane - Mr Austin Melford - Mr Henry Ainley - Mr Lionel Brough - Mr George Ingleton ' Full page
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