Joan Crawford, American actress punting View of figures on Holborn

View of figures on Holborn Viaduct during its construction

Facsimile of a letter written by theatre manager and actor Charles Mathews (1776-1835) reporting a lost item of post

including a toy sword and a battered and broken drum

a key top right and a female figure holding dividers seated above the scale

Oil on board

Joan Crawford, American actress punting View of figures on HolbornJoan Crawford, American actress, 1934 1935. Crawford was an acclaimed Academy Award winning film actress and one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1930s. The American Film Institute named her among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time. Taken from Meet the Film Stars, by Seton Margrave. (London, 1934 1935).