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Early 20th Century Portraits

Stylized black-and-white portraits of women in vintage fashion, showcasing elegant dresses and accessories, conveying a historical and sophisticated mood.

Bride of ex king Manuel

Passover black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives, portraits

Madeley possibilly Ethel May Madeley (1899-1976), circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Miss May Schneider in "Traviata"

Carmen Melis as Tosca

Princess Adalbert

Hope Hamilton

Mrs. Gail Borden

Mary Johnston

Mrs. Reg. Vanderbilt

Beatrice Von Brunner

Mrs. Rutherford Stuyvesant

Mrs. W.E. Corey

Jeannette McIlwaine ca. 1910-1914.

The new Duchess of Roxburghe, wife of the 8th Duke and formerly Miss Mary (May) Goelet, daughter of Ogden Goelet, the famous American millionaire. May was an example of the 'dollar princess', wealthy American heiresses who married impoverished British peers exchanging their handsome dowries for a ducal title. Photographed here shortly after her marriage, which took place at on 10 November 1903 at St. Thomas's Church, New York. According to The Tatler, it was one of the most notable social eve

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

Lina Cavalieri

Mrs. Wm. P. Cronan

Clementine of Belgium, round-frame portrait

Mable T. Boardman, seated outside

Dr. Rahel Hirsch

Edith Kelly in "Havanna"

Farrar as Rosaura

Marie Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

'Maud', c1893. Artist: W Downey.

Mrs. E.C. Wilson (Elsie Tilford)

Anna Douglas Graham

Princess Charlotte (Kaiser's Sister)

Elizabeth Noyes

Irene of Chavanne as Brünnhilde

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

Portrait of a young woman, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Duchess of Sutherland

Mrs. Ava Astor

Mrs. Chas. A. Holder

Marie Studholme (1875-1930), English actress, 1900s.Artist: J Beagles & Co

Agnes Johnston

08/31/1917. Actresses of the Reina Victoria theater - Carmen Crehuet.

Mrs. Wm. Thaw 3d

Mrs. Jos. Widener, N.Y.

Mrs. Thos. F. Walsh

Mrs. Slidell

Dutchess of Abercorn

Lucrezia Bori

Portrait of Antonina Dronk, Russian Photographer

Cornelia Lee Pattison, Holmes & Bishop Photo.

Mamie in 1915 thought Ike looked like a bruiser. He fell in love at first sight. They wed in 1916.This is the girl Lieutenant "Ike" Eisenhower fell in love with in 1915, and married a year later.The Americans, a sentimental people, like to know that their leaders are happily and suitably married.When a new president moves into the White House, the eyes of the USA are turned hard on his wife.The way she deports herself as First Lady strongly affects the whole of her husband's career. September 22, 1952. (Photo by United Press Photo).

Lady Evelyn Guinness (1883 - 1939), formerly Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine. Wife of Walter Guinness, 1st Earl Moyne and mother of Bryan Guinness, and mother-in-law to DIana Mitford, later Moseley. Date: 1908

Mrs. Ernest Simpson Before her First Divorce.Associated Press Photo Shows: Mrs. Ernest Simpson Photo graphed at Colorado, California, in 1927 just before her Divorce from command are Wing field Spencer, her first Husband.The Beautiful Ex- Mrs Simpson photo graphed in California in 1927. December 21, 1936. (Photo by The Associated Press).

Georgette Leblanc

Lucy Burleson

Adeline Genee

Mrs. George Jay Gould, circa 1903

Maude Millett, actress, 1890.Artist: W&D Downey

B O'Neil 3 studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Violet Manners (nee Lindsay), Duchess of Rutland (1856 - 1937), British artist and noblewoman, wife of Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland. Pictured in a particularly artistic pose during the First World War when she was appealing for a motor car suitable for carrying passengers or goods for the hospital she had recently opened at Hardelot Castle near Boulogne. Date: 1915

Mrs. H.P. Fletcher (Beatrice Bend)

Portrait of an unidentified young woman, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mrs. Julian L. Nugent

''Pictures of the Year - VII. "The Lady Coleridge",after HT Wells, RA', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.

Mrs. John Hays Hammond

Porter 6, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

The actress, Lady Edward Fitzgerald, formerly Miss May Etheridge: 'In publishing the latest portrait of Lady Edward Fitzgerald we need perhaps hardly remind our readers that she is the wife of the Duke of Leinster's younger brother, and in the unlikely event of his two elder brothers not having a heir would eventually come into the title. The peerage has recently been ornamented by many recruits frm the ranks of musical comedy, but as yet none of them have aspired to a ducal coronet.' Date:

Miss Kenny (Deb), 12 June 1933, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

Kyrle Bellew in "Scandal"

Belle Elmore, murdered wife of Dr Crippen. Dr Crippen, an American citizen, lived at 39 Hilldrop Cresent, Camden, London. He was accused of murdering his wife when she disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Crippen had told friends that his wife, Belle Elmore had died due to illness, but when first questioned by police he told them she had eloped with a lover. The police returned to Hilldrop Cresent to question Crippen a second time only to discover that he and his mistress, Miss L

Duchess Norfolk, standing three-quarters.

Mrs. A. Drexel, Jr.

Marie-Blanche Vasnier, friend and muse of French Composer Claude Debussy. 1885

Princess Arthur of Connaught

Belle Boyd

Mrs. Bourke Cochran i.e., Cockran

Miss Douglas 6x8 coupon, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Miss Helen McLaughlin

Princess Victoria Louise

Kathryn Bache

Mme. Saltzmak Stevens seated in chair

Crown princess of Rumania

Catherine Britton (Princess - Germany)

Miss Helen McLaughlin

Miss L.C. Houk

Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson

Margaret Ober as Ortrud

Miss Quinn 6x8 coupon, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Yvonne Arnaud

D Hutchings 4 studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Sartoris, Mrs. Algernon (Nellie Grant)

Abbott, Emma. Singer

Mrs. Glenna S. Tinnin

Mildred Bigelow

African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria, she was the last Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Queen of Bohemia.

Viscountess Deerhurst, formerly Virginia Daniel Bonynge, step-daughter of Californian millionaire Charles W. Bonynge, one of the so-called dollar princesses, wealthy American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy in the late 19th and early 20th century. Date: 1904

Noémi Renan at the age of twenty (usual name). Glass photographic plate. Museum of Romantic Life.

Liesel of Schuch in her Dresden debut as a Violetta in "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi. Royal Hofoper Dresden, 31.01.1914. Photography (World postcard) from Hahn Nachf. Ernst Müller

H.H. Princess Maud of Fife (1893 - 1945), previously Lady Maud Duff, younger daughter of Princess Louise, the Princess Royal and the Duke of Fife. Married Lord Carnegie in 1923. Date: 1909

Queen Victoria's pictures. The Queen Victoria. Engagement portrait. 1881.

Young Adult Woman with Violin, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Cabinet Card, 1902

08/31/1916. Carmen L. Malaver comic tiple.

Marquise de la Charette

Princess Aug. Wilhelm, Germany

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