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Early 20th Century Women Portraits

A collection of vintage portraits featuring elegant women in historical attire, displaying classic hairstyles and soft monochrome tones, conveying a sense of nostalgia.

GENE (Geneva) STRATTON-PORTER (nee Stratton) American author of 'A girl of the limberlost' and other writings mingling nature and sentiment. Date: 1868 - 1924
GENE (Geneva) STRATTON-PORTER (nee Stratton) American author of 'A girl of the limberlost' and other writings mingling nature and sentiment. Date: 1868 - 1924
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Woman; inscribed 'Miss Gillespie' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraitsMarie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist. Picture published 191711/30/1923. Gertrud Baumer, Director of the current feminist movement in Germany. (Photothek photo) -.Amy March (Cheney) Beach, 1867-1944, head and shoulders, facing slightly left American pianist and composer.Marie Alexandrovna, wife of Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, head-and-shoulders portrait, circa 1880CLARA BLANDICK.My Comrade "Elin. Business card. "Min kamrat" Elin. Visitkort.Woman; inscribed 'Mrs Penny' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraitsPortrait in profile by Anna Lindhagen (1870-1941) Municipal and social politicians who initiated the colonial garden movement. NordicNoted English Woman Preacher Says Her Sex's Smoking's All Right!Miss Maud Royden, distinguished preacher of England, who is here to lecture to woman of the methodist Episcopal church home missionary and who is certain a little smoke to steady the nerves does not interfere with her religion. Miss Royden has been frowned upon more than once because she uses the weed, but that fact will make no difference to her audiences in this city. March 01, 1928. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).Miss Beatrice Grimshaw. April 22, 1947.LOUISE COGNACQ (nee Jay) Paris shopgirl who married Ernest Cognacq and with him created the Samaritaine department store : photo 1912. Date: circa 1912Dame Ethel Mary Smyth; DBE (23 April 1858 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movementEster Lindberg, ("Berget"), Östansjö. Ester Lindberg, ("Berget"), Östansjö.Mrs. Nellie van SlingerlandWoman; inscribed 'Mrs K. Fraser' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraitsLife of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself; 1894. Frontispiece1880s PORTRAIT OF MARY BAKER EDDY FOUNDER OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHMme. Blavatsky, head-and-shoulders portraitClarence Gauss. July 21, 1940.Portrait, Mrs. Nathaniel Appleton, by Copley, at Harvard , Portrait paintings, Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives CollectionNurse Edith Cavell 1865-1915 Portrait of Edith Cavell before the First World War.Ana de Castro Osório (1872-1935), escritora.Mrs. Christine Ladd FranklinMiss Frances A. KellorAnna Borisovna Khvolson (née Dushkina); children's writer ca. 1900. 08/31/1917. Elisa Romero (Walken Photos) -Approximate date.Mrs Pym, 23 July 1930, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.'HM Queen Mary' (1867-1953), 1937. Artist: Unknown.Mrs. Seth Barton FrenchLucy Burns (1879-1966), American suffragist and women's rights advocate, three-quarter length seated portrait, Washington, D.C., USA, Harris & Ewing, Clara Zetkin (nee Eissner; 5 July 1857 - 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. In 1911, she organized the first International Women's Day. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933. When Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party took over power, the Communist Party of Germany was banned, following the Reichstag fire in 1933. Zetkin went into exile for the last time, this time to the Soviet Union. She died there, at Arkhangelskoye, near Moscow, in 1933, aged nearly 76. Her ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, near Red Square.Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898), British novelist, essayist, and journalist, 1890.Artist: W&D DowneySybil Thorndike & Her DaughterNew portrait of Dame Sybil Thorndike the famous actress with her daughter Miss Mary Casson.Dame Sybil is the wife of Mr. Lewis Casson. July 30, 1934.Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in 1929.Ald. S. Crick. June 16, 1940.Photographic portrait of Catherine Gladstone (nee Glynne), the wife of William Ewart Gladstone, the English Liberal statesman. Date: 1800Queen Victoria's pictures. Queen Victoria in mourning. No 12.Queen Victoria's pictures. Queen Victoria in chest image with mourning.Dr Maria Montessori (1870-1952), Italian philosopher, 1926. Artist: Unknown10/31/1916. Maria Gamez.The Royal Bride. September 02, 1935. (Photo by London News Agency)Author and founder of Theosophy Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), Anonymous Queen Victoria's pictures. Queen Victoria in mourning.Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant (Julia Dent Grant), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing leftMrs. May Pepper VanderbiltHAYLEY ATWELL in HOWARDS END (2017), directed by HETTIE MACDONALD.05/31/1914. Nieves Domingo "la Blanca", Author of the double murder and robbery on San Ramón Street in Barcelona.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poetIda Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement