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Early 20th Century Women

Portraits of women in classic dresses with elaborate hairstyles, depicting fashion from the late 19th to early 20th century.

Mrs. David Beach

Melanie Kurt

Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing front African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

Catherine Hughes

Miss Julia Neilson with book, Purcy Guttenberg, Rotary Photo

Lola Norris

Jane Addams

Queen of Bavaria

Woman; inscribed 'Mrs S. Katy' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Ramsay 6 cab Sepia, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mrs. H.A. Stimson

Mrs FG Smith, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

1881 (ca.). Bocanegra in his days as a banderillero.

Mrs. Lorlys E. Rogers

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

Queen of Italy

Martha Van Rensselaer

Mary C. Francis seated

Miss Kate Chase

Dame Margaret Helen Greville, Hon Mrs Greville, DBE (18631942), British society host and philanthropist, born Margaret Helen Anderson. Friend of Queen Mary, popular society hostess, chatelaine of Polesden Lacey. Bequeathed all her jewels to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Date: 1904

Queen of Roumania

Grace Filkins

Mme. Gadski, Bay Shore

12/31/1899. Maria Goyri in a wedding dress, on her wedding day with Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

Alexandra Stappert

Mrs. Geo. H. Mulligan, Jr.

Mrs. Oliver Harriaman

Woman; inscribed 'Mrs Knox-Gilmour' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Princess Maria, Yugoslavia

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

Woman; inscribed 'Mrs W Keller' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Countess Powys, portrait bust

Margaret Sanger

Mary Moriatrty

Stanton, Kate (Singer)

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson

Miss Helen Taft, first daughter of William Howard Taft (taken circa 1905-1945).

Queen Mary Ill -- A Striking early portrait of Queen Mary. Queen Mary, the dowager Queen mother has been confined to her home at Marlborough House, London, for several weeks. To-Day, her doctors Sir John Weir and Lord Webb-Johnson spent Half-An-Hour at Marlborough House. Queen Mary's personal Physician, Sir Horace Evans, has been in close attendance for several days. It is understood that the Dowager Queen mother is suffering from a gastric complaint which prevents her from taking much nourishment. She is, however, attending to daily business with the help of secretaries. Queen Mary was a daughter of the Duke of Teck and was born in Kensington Palace, London, in 1867. March 03, 1953. (Photo by Paul Popper).

Elena Gerhardt

Emma Goldman

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

Countess of Aberdeen

12/23/1906. Winners in the Christmas lottery draw. Teresa Farriols, second prize.

Mother Jones

Virginia Young

Edith Mason

Mrs. Edmund Randolph, Hope Farm Fair

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

Maude Fay

Helen R. Robinson

Mrs. L.M. Gillespie

W. Hampden as "Manson" in "The Servant in the House", photo by Hallen, N.Y.

Mrs. Ellen A. O'Grady - digital file from original neg. | Library of Congress

Mrs. Chow Tzchi

05/31/1912. Rosarito Peris, victim of the Villarreal cinema disaster.

Mrs. Champ Clark

Lucy E. Anthony

Paderewski

Woman; inscribed 'Mrs Fisher' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

March 1915. Archduchess Maria Josephine (Maria Theresa, Sister of the King of Saxony) Daughter of the last King of Saxony and mother of the crown prince of Austria-Hungary, Charles Francis, with her Red Cross Nurse uniform. Photo: Berliner Illustrations.

African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

Charlotte

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, and Susan B. Anthony, standing, three-quarter length portrait. Between 1880 and 1902.

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

Annie Besant

Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin

Mme. Uriu

Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (1891 - 1959), later Princess Arthur of Connaught pictured on the front cover of The Bystander magazine after being recently presented at Court. Date: 1909

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