Queens Gallery

Brunhild, The Warrior-Queen, Hurls Her Spear at Gunthers Shield, 1882. Creator: Unknown

Brunhild, The Warrior-Queen, Hurls Her Spear at Gunther's Shield, 1882. From "St. Nicholas: Volume IX. Part I., November 1881, to May 1882". [Scribner & Co., New York, 1882]

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Paying allegiance to the May Queen

Georgian style villagers paying homage to their May Queen on May Day. From "R. Caldecott's Second Collection of Pictures and Songs" containing "The Milkmaid", "Hey Diddle Diddle", Baby Bunting", The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate", "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go", "Come Lasses and Lads", "Ride a Cock Horse...", "A Farmer Went Trotting...", "Mrs Mary Blaize" and "The Great Panjandrum Himself". Drawn by Randolph Caldecott; engraved and printed by E. Evans. Published by George Routledge & Sons, London & New York, c1885

Swedish Film Actress Greta Garbo - Torrent, 1926

Greta Garbo (1905-1990) - Swedish Film Actress and Movie Star. Garbo was born in Stockholm and was spotted whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. Her first Hollywood film was The Temptress in 1926. Amongst her other successes are, Queen Christie (1930), Anna Karenina (1935) and Ninotchka (1939). She retired from films in 1941, after receiving poor reviews for Two-Faced Woman. She spent the rest of her life living as a recluse in New York. This card shows Garbo in Torrent (1926) her first American film. Date: 1926

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection