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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.

ISABELLA MARY BEETON journalist, publisher and author of seminal work on household management Date: 1836 - 1865

Julia Margaret Cameron 1870 Henry Herschel Hay Cameron British Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta in 1815, the fourth of ten children of Adeline de lEtang and James Pattle, an official in the East India Company whose riotous life earned him the nicknames “Jim Blazes” and “the biggest liar in India.” Perhaps from him she inherited a strong will and a disregard for convention. As a child, she shuttled between India and Europe and received the bulk of her education in Versailles, where she spent much of her early life with her maternal grandmother before residing more permanently in India from the age of eighteen. In 1848 she and her husband of ten years, Charles Hay Cameron, settled in England. There the Pattle sisters enchanted London society with their beauty and eccentricity, attracting many of the most original artistic, literary, and scientific minds of the day. In 1860 the Camerons moved to Freshwater, on the Isle of Wight. A Christmas gift of a camera from her daughter an

Mrs. G. Bostwick

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life at Amherst, Mass., USA.

SU MAJESTAD MARIA CRISTINA DE BORBON - LITOGRAFIA 1861. Author: R VAZQUEZ (S XIX) LITOGRAFO. Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-GRABADOS. MADRID. SPAIN. Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. MARIA CRISTINA DE PARMA. PARMA MARIA CRISTINA DE. ESPOSA DE FERNANDO VII-REINA DE ESPAÑA.

Mrs Blick, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Theodore's Roosevelt first wife and mother of Alice Roosevelt. She was married to Roosevelt for less than 4 years when she died in 1884 at age 23 (BSLOC_2017_6_78)

Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer, 1855 (1951). Artist: Unknown

Hattie Thorn

Mrs. N.P. Banks

Louisa May Alcott, writer, abolitionist, and Civil War nurse / Warren's Portraits, 465 Washington St., Boston. - digital file from original, front | Library of Congress

Mrs. Stirling n/d

Maggie Mitchell. George Kendall Warren (American, 1834 - 1884)

Mrs James Garfield, wife of President James Garfield. Lucretia Rudolph-Garfield did not show much interest in her role as a First Lady, but was a genuinely gracious and hospitable person. She planned to restore the White House fully but contracted malaria before she could make much progress.

Portraits of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, 1908, Budapest, Königin Elisabeth, Hungary

Mrs. G. Bostwick

Portrait of Zr. Sibbeltje Plekker (1838-1913), who was diacones from 1859 in the Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht.

Maggie Mitchell; George Kendall Warren (American, 1834 - 1884); about 1873; Albumen silver print

Queen Sophie of Holland (usual name). Photographic print laminated on cardboard (business card). Museum of Romantic Life.

Portrait of Sophie van Württemberg, 1849 - 1899 print Portrait of Sophie. In the middle of a crown. Entirely in an ornamented rectangle. Netherlands paper letterpress printing

Overbeck, Friedrich.

H.M The Queen of Greece, 1908.Artist: WD & HO Wills

Mrs Trium 12 PC, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Portrait of Frida from Schütz (1837-1859, singer). Photography, retouched. Albumin tray on cardboard (Carte de-visit with studio print VERSO)

Queen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Victoria Copyright: xKenxGraham/DinodiaxPhotox

Photograph of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) best known by her pseudonym George Sand. French novelist and memoirist. Dated 1864

Madam Morensi

Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915), was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor in Portland, Oregon. Her paper, THE NEW NORTHWEST, echoed her human rights advocacy, supporting education and women's suffrage.

Ambrotype - Jane Courley (nee Hamilton) Newburn of Queenston, ON, about 1858

SAND, Aurora Dupin, called George (1804-1876). French writer. Engraving.

Belle Starr (1848-1889), a Western outlaw was born Myra Maybelle Shirley. In 1880 she married a Cherokee Indian named Sam Starr, who was killed in a gun duel in 1886. Gene Tierney starred in the 1941 film, BELLE STARR.

A photograph of a young Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, as well as a celebrated English social reformer and statistician. She was given the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" because of her habit of making nursing rounds at night during the Crimean War. Lived between May 1820August 1910.

Portrait of Eva Fockeline Boelen-Smidt van Gelder.

Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) an American abolitionist and author. Dated 19th Century

MARY BAKER EDDY Founder of Christian Science. Date: 1821 - 1910

04/30/1911. Andrea Berguiza who threw herself off a balcony.

'Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American abolitionist and author of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' 1851-1852, a novel strongly infuenced by the writer's anti-slavery views..'

Rose, Mrs. Miles , Barlow Album

RACHEL (born Elisa Felix) Swiss-born actress, daughter of Jewish-Alsatian pedlars, the supreme classical actress of the French stage and star of the Comedie Francaise. Date: 1821 - 1858

Portrait of the wife of Abraham van Lier, Carl Borntraeger, 1860 - 1890 Photograph. visit card This photo is part of an album. cardboard. photographic support albumen print historical persons - BB - woman. portrait of actor, actress

Daguerreotype - Frances Anna Savage, about 1850

Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), English novelist, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Helen Einstein, grandmother of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss mathematician.

Demetra Vaka (1877-1946), Greek-born author, emigrated to USA in 1894, married the writer and journalist Kenneth Brown. Her new book, A Child of the Orient, was published in 1914. Date: 1914

Fanny Schnelle

Clara Barton (1821-1912), founder of the American branch of the Red Cross. Artist: Unknown

Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, wife of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1824 - 1897, historical illustration circa 1893

Miss Gilfillan, circa 1860, maker unknown.

Amanda Smith, 1897, 1897, Atlanta, Ga, Publisher, J. L. Nichols, African Americans, History, Biography

Portrait of Therese GROB, soprano singer and Schubert's first love

Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands

Portrait of Justyna Chopin, wife of Nicolas Chopin and mother of Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849) Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. Dated 1830

Victoria (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain 1837-1901. Full length portrait of Victoria facing left, 1862 or later.

Clara Novello, 1818-1908. English opera singer, soprano. Painted by Djpound to a photo of Mayall., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, pictured at Windsor Castle. Date: May 1897

Photographer Forsbäck's mother, born 1817. Fotograf Forsbäcks mor, född 1817.

George Sand (1804-1876). French writer. Engraving by Lafosse, 1866.

Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt (1820 or May 1823 - July 7, 1865) American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged, becoming the first woman executed by the United States federal government.

Susan B. Anthony 1855. A prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.

Mme Pape-Carpantier Made 1853-1878 France. Woodburytype, from the periodical ìGalerie Contemporaine LittÈraire, Artistiqueî (1878), volume 5 . Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)

William Hartridge. Director of Köping - Hults Railway, KHJ.

Photograph of Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress of Russia (1872-1918) wife of Nicholas II and the last Empress of Russia. Dated 1917

Ranavalona III (November 22, 1861 May 23, 1917) was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883, to February 28, 1897, in a reign marked by ongoing and ultimately futile efforts to resist the colonial designs of the government of France. As a young woman, she was selected from among several andriana (nobles) qualified to succeed Queen Ranavalona II upon her death. Like both preceding queens, Ranavalona entered into a political marriage with a member of the Hova (freeman) elite named Rainilaiarivony who, in his role as Prime Minister of Madagascar, largely oversaw the day-to-day governance of the kingdom and managed its foreign affairs. Throughout her reign, Ranavalona utilized diverse tactics such as strengthening trade and diplomatic relations with the United States and Great Britain in the hope of staving off impending colonization. However, French attacks on coastal port towns and an assault on the capital city of Antananarivo ultimately led to the

Clarissa Harlowe Barton (born 25 December 1821 in North Oxford died 12 April 1912 in Glen Echo), called Clara Barton, was an American nurse, teacher and philanthropist, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and daughter Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch 1856.

Clara Barton at 29, 1850

American Novelist Louisa May Alcott, who wrote "Little Women" in 1868.

RETRATO DE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ENFERMERA Y REFORMADORA DEL SISTEMA SANITARIO- 1820/1910.

Middle-Aged Woman Portrait, Daguerreotype, circa 1850's

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Princess Irene in riseum sitting on chair in Soestdijk Palace, 1956. 1956

Portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India. Dated 19th Century

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), c1900s (1936). Artist: Unknown

Octavia Hill (1838 - 1912; English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Rev. Mrs. Olympia Brown ca. between 1909 and 1919.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated).

04/30/1912. Doña Dolores Pallarés, who died charred in the Villarreal cinema catastrophe.

Mrs. Lincoln, wife of President Lincoln, President of the United States | Library of Congress

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