Early 20th Century Formal Portraits

A collection of vintage portraits showcasing women in elegant gowns from the early 1900s, featuring intricate designs and classic poses against soft backgrounds.

Mme. Pezet

Ethel Parks

Mrs. Everett C. Brown

Portia Willis

Mme. Pezet

Charlotte Capers

Florence Hinkle

Margherita Beriza

Kitty Gordon in loveseat

Mrs. Perry Belmont

Mrs. C. del Oelrichs

Kathryn Brown Decker

Miss Deacon

Madam Moreau-Chaslan seated

Mrs. W.E. Carter

Countess Gunther V. Bernstorff

Unbekannte Dame Reprofotografie, Martin Gerlach jun, Photographer

Thyra Von Ulm

Miss Jessie M. Drake standing by chair

Mrs. A.D. Biddle Jr.

Queen of Greece

Grand Duchess Tatiana

Princess Aug. Wilhelm, Germany

Dai Turgeon

Mrs. Culver McWilliam (Eleanor Nash)

Miss Oldham studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Isadora Duncan

Mrs. W.W. Rockhill

Edith January Elliott

Ida Conquest

Sari Petrass

Bessie Yoakum

Gertrude Bodine seated

Catherine Pace

Mrs. Walter Pulitzer

Princess Friederike, Hanover

Florence Walton

Mrs. Florence Carman

Mary Garden, bust, copyright by Mishkin, New York

The Duchess of Vendomme

Grace Overman

Queen of Serbia

Mrs. Leon Orlowski

Lady Cholmondeley (Mrs. Clara Taylor Stirling)

Edna Baker

Marie Busch

Miss Dorothy Bigelow, Lallie Charles Photo.

Juanita Prewett

Czarina

Helen Royton

Mrs. Henry Pierson

Evelyn Vandegrift

Miss Polson, July 1935, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

Marie Studholme, English theatre actress, 1901.Artist: Alfred Ellis & Walery

Marsha Warrington

Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, Sec'y Internat'l Council of Women

Copy of a portrait of a woman, inscribed Anderson studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Lady Grey Egerton

Yvette Guilbert

Little Lord Fauntleroy. 1921 American film directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford and starring Mary Pickford as both Cedric Errol and Widow Errol. The film is based on the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Edna Goodrich

Mrs. J.L. Laidlaw

Mrs. N. Der Whitehouse

Anna Fitziu

Mrs. Russell H. Millward

Mrs. W.E. Corey

(Miss Frances Peck) Mrs. Vivian Egleston

Mrs. Hollis Hunnewell

Genievive Clark

Evelyn Parnell

Mathilde Townsend

Mrs. Annie Best

McDougal studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Princess Aug. Wilhelm

Mrs. Jack Cudahy

(Margaret Fahnestock) Mrs. Benj. Holcombe

Mrs. Radford

Grace Leigh

Countess Minto

Schultzer

Peg O'Wing

Hazell M. Cox, White, N.Y.

Miss Lindsay 6 1/1 plate, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Grace George in "The New York Idea"

Gaby Deslys

Helen Clark

Frances Jolliffe

Princess Beatrice of Coburg, standing, three-quarters

Mrs. Luther Kountze

Mrs. DeForest Algood

Agnes Johnston

Princess August Wilhelm (Germany)

Woman studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Mathilde Townsend

Claudia Muzio

Frances Pritchard

Ada Sullivan

Mrs. J.J. Murphy (Princess Auersperg)

Helen P. Arnold

Willette Kershaw

Mrs. Winston Churchill

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