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19th Century Women in Theater

Classical portraits of actresses in elaborately designed dresses. Each image reflects the fashion and cultural context of the time.

Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan; acted as First Lady during his term as President. ca. 1855-1865.

Portrait of Bellanger, Marguerite, (Justine Leboeuf, Say), (1838-1886), (Actress) Portrait of Bellanger, Marguerite, (Justine Leboeuf, Say), (1838-1886), (actress). Business card (front). Photograph of Andr� Adolphe Eugene Dissier (1819-1889). Draw on albuminum paper. 1870-1890.

Portrait of Alix Marie Angela Seon (v. 1835-1906), called Pasca, theater actress between 1864 and 1891. Vauvray, Hippolyte. Portrait of Alix Marie Angela Séon (v. 1835-1906), called Pasca, Theater actress between 1864 and 1891. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper. 1860-1890.

Portrait of Hortense Schneider, (Countess of Bionne, 1838-1920), (actress) ULric Grob. Portrait of Hortense Schneider, (Countess of Bionne, 1838-1920), Actress. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1890.

Madame Ponisi , Actresses, Ponisi, Mme Elizabeth, 1818-1899, Carte de Visite Collection

Portrait of Alice Theic, actress Portrait of Alice Theic, actress. Business card (front). Photography of Ulric Grob. Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1890.

Barlow, Mrs. Rufus H. , Barlow Album

Portrait of Lucile Durand (-After 1887), (Actress) Portrait of Lucile Durand (-After 1887), (actress). Business card (front). Photograph of Ulric Grob (active between 1860 and 1900). Drawings at album paper. 1860-1890.

Mrs. Emmy Willard , Carte de Visite Collection

Clara Barton, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, 1860s

Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan; acted as First Lady during his term as President. ca. 1855-1865.

Portrait of Charlotte Wolter (1834-1897), Austrian actress (bust); around 1880 (1870-00-00-1890-00-00);Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915)-collection, Wolter, Charlotte (1834-1897), Wolter, Charlotte (1834-1897)-iconography, actors, Cartes de Visite (photographer), portraits, female portraits, message (provenance)

S. M. la Reine Olga , Queens, Olga, Queen, consort of George I, King of the Hellenes, 1851-1926. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Mrs. Chas. Keen

Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (1832-1897). Author: PEDRO MARTINEZ DE HEBERT (1819-1891). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. DUQUESA DE MONTPENSIER. MARIA LUISA FERNANDA DE ORLEANS. HERMANA DE ISABEL II DE ESPAÑA. MADRE DE MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES. ESPOSA DE ANTONIO DE ORLEANS. hija de Fernando VII. INFANTA MARIA LUISA FERNANDA DE BORBON (1832-1897).

Portrait of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte (Princess de Demidoff), (1820-1904) Portrait of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte (Princess de Demidoff), (1820-1904). Business card (front). Photograph of Andr� Adolphe Eugene Dissier (1819-1889). Draw on albuminum paper. 1860-1890.

Portrait of Louise Modestin, Barricate in 1871. Portrait of Louise Modestin, Barrondi�re in 1871. Photograph of Ernest Charles Appert (1830-1890). Draw on albuminum, 1871.

The Crown Princess of Saxony. Hanns Hanfstaengl (German, 1820 - 1885)

Mrs. Hogan , Carte de Visite Collection

Mme. Fauquet. Adrien Alban Tournachon (French, 1825 - 1903)

Lecturer Anna E. Dickinson , Suffragists, Abolitionists, Dickinson, Anna E. Anna Elizabeth, 1842-1932, Carte de Visite Collection

MARGARITA XIRGU (1888-1969) ACTRIZ ESPANOLA.

MODESTA URRUTIA VIUDA DE SANCHEZ PASTOR - 1895. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Portrait of Zr. C.A. 'Keetje' van Hoevelaken (1824-1870), from 1862 Diacones in the Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht.

Photo collection Government information service. Elise van Calcar (1822-1904), writer, educational investigator and airge starter of Dutch feminism. undated

Photographic print of Christine Nilsson (1843-1921), Swedish operatic soprano. Dated 1870

Miss Yonge

Portrait of Maschinka Schubert-Schneider (1815-1882, singer). Albumin tray on cardboard (Carte de-visit with studio print VERSO)

Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1824-1880), Deniere, Andrei (Heinrich-Johann) (1820-1892)

Clara Schumann (born Clara Wieck - 1819-1896) German pianist in old age. Widow of composer Robert Schumann. From a photograph. Halftone.

Mme. George Sand. Date/Period: 1864. Albumen print. Width: 5.3 cm. Height: 8.4 cm (image). Author: NADAR.

Mme Vernet mére. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Mme Crémieux, died 1880; Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon, French, 1820 - 1910; 1856 - 1857; Salted paper print; Image: 22.2 x 15.9 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)

Portrait of Emilie Guyon, (1821-1878), (actress or singer) Portrait of Emilie Guyon, (1821-1878), (actress or singer). Business card (front) .Tire on albuminum paper varnish. Between 1860-1890. Photograph of G. Boulle.

Portrait of Anna Halpert (1844-1913); Fajans, Maksymilian (1825-1890); around 1863 (1860-00-00-1865-00-00);Karnkowski family album, Halpert, Halpert, Anna (1844-1930), photo albums, women's portraits

Mme Léonid d'Epstein , Alexandre Benois Collection

Photograph of Countess Hungary-Liechtenstein, half-length, wearing a hood and fur coat, captured between 1870-1880 on albumin paper.

Portrait of Ms. Patey, (Actress) Robert White Thrupp, says). Portrait of Ms. Patey, Actress. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1890.

Portrait of Latour Amelie, (Julie Liestet, Say), (Actress) Portrait of Latour Amelie, (said Julie Liestet), Actress. Visit card. Between 1860 and 1890. Photography by Charles Reutlinger (1816-1880).

Thérèse Tournachon. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Mme E.M. Labiche. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Carte Portrait Elspet Wilson, c. 1860

MRS ALEXANDER prolific novelist under the name of 'MRS ALEXANDER' Date: 1818 - 1895

Portrait of madame papin ..

Jenny Lind Goldschmidt (1820-87), Swedish Opera Singer, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New York, 1873

Portrait of Christiane Biert

Miss Anna McFarland; S.G. Sheaffer (American, active Hanover, Pennsylvania 1860s - 1870s); about 1865; Albumen silver print

Adelaide Phillips , Singers, Phillipps, Adelaide, 1833-1882, Carte de Visite Collection

Clara L. Kellogg

Lucy Stone

Mrs. Jane Dewhurst. S. Shattuck (American, active Lowell, Massachusetts 1858 - 1889)

Hayes, Mrs. R.B., wife of Pres.

Photographic portrait of Dinah Craik (1826-1887) an English novelist and poet. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of Caroline Raeder (1818-after 1890, singer, actress). Albumin tray on cardboard (Carte de-visit with studio print VERSO)

Portrait of J.G. Jonker Nije, Johannes Leonardus van der Heijden, 1875 - 1915 Photograph. visit card Amsterdam cardboard. photographic support albumen print historical persons Amsterdam

Sartoris, Mrs. Algernon (Nellie Grant)

Portrait of Anna Henriëtte SWELELLEBEL, born 1810, first director of the Diakonessen-Festival in Utrecht (1844-1874), died May 30, 1874.

Portrait of a Lady ca. 1850 Attributed to Samuel Lovett Waldo American. Portrait of a Lady. Attributed to Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861). American. ca. 1850. Oil on wood

American women suffrage leader, Susan B. Anthony, 1900-1906 (BSLOC_2018_2_44)

Desiant Artoot-Padilla, singer, Adolphee Beau -, Photographs

Portrait Langenhaun , (detected by 1867/1870; actress o. Dancer). Albumin tray on cardboard (Carte de-visit with studio print VERSO)

Lady Gore Onsley

Mrs. Anna Brownell-Jameson. Published in the magazine "Camera Work", 1912, XXXVII. Collection of Juhl

Clarissa Harlowe Barton(1821 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded theAmerican Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in theAmerican Civil War, a teacher, andpatent clerk.

Désirée Devéria.

George Sand. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Portrait of Zofia Franciszkowa Wodzicka from the Rzyszczewski family, (1816-1890). Szubert, Awit (1837-1919), photographer

Harriet Lane Johnston

Josephine Silone Yates, African American Educator and Activist, Seated Portrait, Cabinet Card, New Photographic Art Company, 1885

01/01/1867. Empress Elizabeth of Austria "Sissi".

Miss Soldene , Actresses, Soldene, Emily, 1838-1912, Carte de Visite Collection

Marie von Berger , Alexandre Benois Collection

MRS ALEXANDER author of some 50 novels under the name of 'MRS ALEXANDER' Date: 1818 - 1895

Caroline S. Brooks , Carte de Visite Collection

Portrait of wife of Teofil Gerlicz (-). Beyer, Karol (Warszawa ; zakład fotograficzny ; 1845-1872), photo studio

Miss Fillaus. David Octavius Hill (Scotland, 1802-1870)Robert Adamson (Scotland, 1821-1848). Scotland, circa 1840, printed circa 1910. Photographs. Photogravure

Pauline Cushman (1833-1893), Union Spy during the U.S. Civil War. When caught she was sentenced to hang, but was saved three days prior to her scheduled execution when Union Troops occupied her location. Ca. 1865.

Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe / Howell, 867 & 869 B'way. | Library of Congress

Nancy Maria Donaldson Johnson (1794-1890), Active in American Missionary Association, Taught Freed Slaves, Volunteer and Inventor, Head and Shoulders Portrait by Julius Ulke, 1875

Millicent Garret Fawcett, British women's suffrage leader, c. 1880-90. In 1890 she became leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) founded by Lydia Becker in 1887 (BSLOC_2018_2_50)

Josephine v. Wertheinstein , Alexandre Benois Collection

Mlle. Boisso

Mme Bertaux. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Lucy Cooley Warner, wife of Cullen Warner, probably sister-in-law of M.J. Amanda Kellogg / J.W. Stacy, traveling photographic artist, Barre, Mass. | Library of Congress

Mrs. G.B. McClellan

Pauline Cushman

Titiens , Opera singers, Titiens, Therese, 1831-1877, Carte de Visite Collection

JENNY (JOHANNA MARIA) LIND Swedish singer (Madame Goldschmitt) with her autograph Date: 1820 - 1887

Mrs. Klara Matilda Klintberg. Fru Klara Matilda Klintberg.

Mrs. N.P. Banks

Portrait Clotilde Emilie Kainz-Prause (1840-1914, singer). Albumin tray on cardboard Carte-de-visit with studio print verso)

Lucretia Mott, lecturer, woman suffragist , Suffragists, Abolitionists, Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880, Carte de Visite Collection

Cebrian. Retrato de Eugenia de Montijo (1826-1920). Colección particular. Madrid.

Portrait of Isabella Glyn. Tallis, John (Londyn ; 1810-1876), printing house, Paine, William (ca 1800-1860), photographer, unknown, graphic artist

Mrs. James Garfield (wife of President)

Queen Victoria, undated

Katherine Tingley (1847 - 1929) American spiritual cult leader, head of the Universal Brotherhood and autocrat of the Point Loma community

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), Anonymous

Alphonse, Henriette Renan (common name). Museum of Romantic Life.

Queen of Rumania

Frances Willard (1839-1898), American temperance reformer, and women's suffragist who was influential in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Ca. 1880.

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