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Elegant Historical Portraits

A collection of vintage portraits featuring women in elaborate gowns from the late 19th to early 20th century, showcasing intricate fashion and posed grace.

Hazel Dawn in "The Pink Lady"

Nadezhda Vasilievna Plevitskaya (1884-1940), Anonymous

Mrs. Chas. Hopkins in "The Clever Ones"

Miss H. Lasanitch

Dagmar de C. Rugner seated

Duchess Norfolk, standing three-quarters

Reeves 1, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Geraldine Farrar

Countess Tamburini

Mrs. Geo. Fowler Dixon

Bessie McKenna

Christabel Pankhurst

Lotte Lehmann, 1888-1976

Ida (Saxton) McKinley was the wife of President William McKinley and was the First Lady of the United States.

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

Countess Lonyay

Mamie Geneva Dowd (ca. 1915) before her marriage to Dwight David Eisenhower in 1916. Photographer unknown.

Mrs. H.L. Washington, cameo portrait

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895-1917) was the eldest child of Tsar Nikolas and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. No location or date.

V McDonald 6, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

(Ganna Walska) Mrs. Harold McCormick

Lady Lavery

Czarina of Russia

Irene Castle

Portrait of Mrs. Schaerer. .

Pauline Chase

Letitia "Letty Lind" Elizabeth Rudge (1862-1923), English actress, dancer, singer and acrobat, best known for her work in burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre, and in musical theatre at Daly's Theatre,London. Date: 1890

Mrs. Austin W. Lord

Mrs. Henry Farman

Laura Wurts

Grand Duchess Olga, leaning against chair

Neva Carr Glyn, Sydney A.B.C. actress, as the Duchess of Marlborough in "Viceroy Sarah" (National Programme 28th July.) July 18, 1940. (Photo by Col Bays)

Amy C. Hutton

Margaret Romaine

Lady Constance Richardson

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Inauguration 1898: Queen Wilhelmina with the regalia on the Creden table. September 6, 1898

Mrs. John Slidell

E. De Hidalgo

Pauline Chase

Mrs. W.R. Hearst

Countess Szechenyi Caraman Chimay

Pithwick, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mrs. Benj. Harrison's dau.

Mrs. Eben Stanwood (nee Lawson), standing

Silent Movie Actress, Mabel Julienne Scott, Fashion Portrait, Bain News Service, 1920

Julia Zabriskie in costume

The Hon. Venetia Stanley (1887-1948), youngest daughter of Lord Sheffield, pictured at the time of her engagement to the Hon. Edwin Montagu, M.P. At the time, Montagu was Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. Asquith was also close to Venetia, and wrote frequently to her, on not just a personal level, but also to seek her advice on political matters. Venetia converted to Judaism on her marriage which caused much interest in the press. Date: 1915

Hork 6 PS, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Rosina Galli

Zinaida Gippius, Anonymous

Miss Nancy Gillespie black-and-white negatives, studio portraits, gelatin silver negatives

Lady Gordon Lennox

Estelle Stead as "Portia"

Lady Eileen Knox

Consuelo Balsan

Violet Manners (nee Lindsay), Duchess of Rutland (1856 - 1937), British artist and noblewoman, wife of Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland. Pictured when she was Lady Granby in an article about The Souls, a group of intellectual elite of which she was a central figure. Date: 1907

E. Di Giovanni

MARIE-CAROLINE duchesse de BERRY (or Berri) widow of the assassinated duc, second son of Charles X. Their son Henri subsequently claimed, in vain, the French throne. Date: 1798 - 1870

Mrs. Bonham-Carter (Violet Asquith)

Gretchen Van Tassell

Anefo photo collection. Theater actress Esther De Boer-van Rijk (1853-1937) in request roles as a knir. Photo by order from Herman Heijermans

Herbert, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Annette Kellerman

Duchess Connaught

Queen Mary - 69 To-Day -- Recent Photograph of Queen Mary, who is 69 to-day. She is shown in one her favorite lace dresses - Ivory lace over an ice-blue satin slip, with an ice-blue satin bow from the shoulder. May 25, 1936. (Photo by Hay Wrightson).

Juanita Prewett

Princess May and her dog. This attractive portrait of Queen Mary in a beautifully cut tailor made of the period was taken just before her marriage in 1893. February 11, 1935. (Photo by Empire Press).

Isabel B. Gardner

Mrs. Claude de Bernales, who was presented at their Majesties second Court by Mrs. J. H. Thomas, wife of the Secretary of State for the Dominions. June 27, 1934.

President Richard Nixon's mother, Hannah Milhaus as a young woman. She completed two years at Whittier College before she married Francis Anthony Nixon, a streetcar motorman with just a fourth-grade education. Ca. 1915.

Miss May

Florence Walton

Grand Duchess Marie of Luxemburg

Miss Alice Fries Carl Weidner (American, 1865-1906). , ca. 1901. Watercolor on ivory portrait in metal liner in wood frame under glass lens, Image (sight): 3 5/8 x 2 13/16 in. (9.2 x 7.1 cm). American Art ca. 1901

Eliz. Schuman

Lilly Cahill in ""The Purple Mask""

Marie Studholme (1875-1930), English actress, 20th century.Artist: Kilpatrick

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm IIs sister, Sophie, Crown Princess of Greece, taken in Germany. The Crown Princess is standing by a window looking at a small vase of flowers on a table.

Anna Fitziu

Mrs. Tibitts

Barbara (Baba) Beaton in the wedding dress she wore to marry Mr Alec Hambro at St Mark's, North Audley Street, London Date: 6 November 1934

Mme. Ober

Norma Talmadge, early 1920s

Iris adami corradetti

Princess Ingrid of Sweden, pictured on her wedding day to Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark. Her dress of white silk was trimmed with old Irish lace and had an 18 foot train. Her bouquet consisted of myrtle and lilies. Date: 1935

Helen Rook

Lady Galway at Government House, Wellington black-and-white negatives, gelatin silver negatives, portraits

Archduchess Auguste

Mrs. William Edward Wilmerding (Joanna Mary Gosman) ca. 1825 Benjamin Trott American The sitter (1801-1842) married William Edward Wilmerding in 1825.. Mrs. William Edward Wilmerding (Joanna Mary Gosman). Benjamin Trott (ca. 1770-1843). American. ca. 1825. Watercolor on ivory

Portrait of Woman with Violin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Cabinet Card, Anton Larson, early 1900's

Elna Brundin's sister Hanna Olsson. Elna Brundins syster Hanna Olsson.

Woman; inscribed 'Miss A Yeats' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Therese Peche -, Burgtheater actress, watercolor by Josef Kriehuber, I,

Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), Russian ballet dancer, who, in 1919, at the time of this photograph, had been performing with the Russian Ballet at the Alhambra Theatre in London. Date: 1919

Clara Clemens, seated

Elizabeth of Luxemburg

Miss Tonkins Extra 6x8, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mrs. L.H. French

Rosa Luxemburg, c1907. Artist: Unknown

Daydreams, 24 March 1913, Levin, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Willa CATHER 1873-1947, American teacher, writer and journalist. Photograph c. 1910

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