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A collection of vintage photographs featuring women from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The images showcase elegant attire, classic hairstyles, and a sepia tone for a nostalgic feel.

Julia NEILSON, 1858-1967, English actress, 19th century photograph

Photographic portrait of Wanda Landowska (1879-1959) a Polish-French harpsichordist. Dated 20th Century

Portrait Pauline Ulrich (1835 (1834) - 1916; actress). Breast image with numerous orders, presumably on their appointment as a professor in 1909 by Friedrich August III. Photography (Carte Cabinet, albumin paper on cardboard) with autograph and dating. Dresden, says May 1909

Alice Paul (1885-1977), American Suffragist, Feminist, and Women's Rights Activist, Portrait, Harris & Ewing, June 1919

Portrait of Maria Federowicz (1871-1922), actress; Mieczkowski, Jan (Warsaw; photographic Zak around 1900 (1890-00-00-1905-00-00);Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915) - collection, jewelry, rings, portraits, female portraits

FANNY DAVENPORT AS CLEOPATRA

Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952), one of the pseudonyms of Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, born Campbell. British novelist, biographer and essayist, writer of historical novels and children's stories. From a series of cards of 'Famous British Authors' (London, 1937).

Gladys Changelian ,. Leon Abdalian Collection

Viscountess Maidstone, formerly Miss Margaretta Drexel, daughter of the American millionaire financier, philanthropist and sportsman, Anthony Drexel. Margaretta married Guy Finch Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham in 1910. Her brother-in-law was Denys Finch Hatton, the African big game hunter and adventurer featured in Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blizen's pseudonym) Out of Africa. Date: 1917

Marie Spartali. Date/Period: 1870. Print. Albumen silver. Height: 362 mm (14.25 in); Width: 267 mm (10.51 in). Author: Julia Margaret Cameron.

HERTHA AYRTON 1854 - 1923 Scientist, engineer, physicist, in her laboratory Date: C.1910

Rosette (Rosa) Manus (1881-1943), Merkelbach, Jacob (1877-1942)

Portrait of Roberta Arnold in ""Chicken Feed"" at the Little Theatre

Alice Verden As Lisa

Alexandra Kollontai (March 1872 - March 9; 1952). Russian Communist revolutionary; first as a member of the Mensheviks; then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. In 1923; Kollontai was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Norway

Amelia C. Van Buren. Thomas Eakins (American, 1844 - 1916)

Ophelia; Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879); Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England; negative 1875; print 1900; Carbon print; 35.2 x 27.6 cm (13 7,8 x 10 7,8 in.)

American Actress Lois Moran (1909-1990), Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, 1920's

Sappho 1865 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India. Sappho. Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815-1879 Kalutara, Ceylon). 1865. Albumen silver print from glass negative. Photographs

(French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame Bernheim).

Marie Witsen-Schorr. .

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890-1958), Photo studio Jaeger

Mrs. Herbert Hoover ca. between 1918 and 1928.

Marie Witsen-Schorr. .

Studio shot of Vivian Rushmore in ""Merchants of Venus"" at Punch and Judy Theater

Elisa Stünzner as Elsa

Author and founder of Theosophy Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), Anonymous

H.M. Drotting Louise, anonymous, 1950 photograph baryta paper. cardboard gelatin silver print historical persons - BB - woman. queen

Evelyn Nesbit, 16 years old, 1900

Alfred by Bary as Siegmund

Miss Mullaney portrait , Posing. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians 1876-1965. dated 19140101

'Phyllis Dare (1890-1975) born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones, English actress and singer who appeared in early 20th century musical theatre.'

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

FRANCISCA HERRERO GARRIDO (1869/1950) POETA GALLEGA.

america, usa, massachusetts state, berkshire area, lenox town, the mount, the edith wharton's house. edith wharton was a pulitzer prize-winning american novelist and designer.

'In Soviet Russia; Mme Kolontai, Minister of Public Assistance in the Maximalist Cabinet', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

The Duchess of York at the time of her wedding, 1923 (1935). Artist: Unknown.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mademoiselle Rapoport , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Mademoiselle Rapoport). Woman, portrait, jewel, fashion, Human beings, clothing, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Miss Rappoport (who came with Mme de Jouvenel)

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), in 1916, the year she became the first American women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Charlote Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American writer established a theoretic foundation for 20th century feminism and the woman's rights movement.

Lady Katherine Parker. Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville (Scottish,1835 - 1906)

Lillie Langtry in Mademoiselle Mars at the Imperial Theater, 1902.

Julia Jackson. Julia Margaret Cameron; English, 1815-1879. Date: 1866-1867. Dimensions: 26.7 × 21.8 cm (image/paper). Albumen print. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

ELISABETH OF BAVARIA wife of Albert I, queen of the Belgians during World War One, she was popular for her resistance to the German invasion. Date: 1876 - 1965

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Beresford, George Charles (1864-1938)

Marie Witsen-Schorr. .

Jenny Laura Marx (26 September 1845 - 26 November 1911) was the second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. In 1868 she married Paul Lafargue. The two committed suicide together in 1911.

DOROTHY PARKER American writer Date: 1893 - 1967

Germany, Portrait of Cosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner (1837 - 1930), daughter of Franz Liszt and second wife of Richard Wagner, 1870

Portrait of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands ..

Ross, Louise Rosalie .

Viscountess Dunedin, Philip Alexius de Lombos Laszlo (Budapest, Hungary, 1869 - 1937) 1929

Marie Antoinette. Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville (Scottish,1835 - 1906)

Madame Marie Curie French Physicist and Chemist (1867-1934)

LADRON DE GUEVARA , MARIA FERNANDA. ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA. MADRID 1894 - 1974. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

MARIE CURIE towards the end of her life, in 1929. Date: 1867-1934

Orzelska, Anna Karoline Countess.

Eva from the East as Stella

Melitta Leithner as Judith

Auguste Baudius, married Wilbrandt -, actress, Unknown

Alma Mahler-Werfel, Anonymous

Margaret Fraser, actress, 1906.Artist: Lizzie Caswall Smith

MARY WIGMAN (originally Marie Weigman) German dancer, pioneer of modern dance in Germany. Her schools were closed by the Nazis during World War Two. Date: 1886 - 1973

Grace Abbott, Chief of Children's Bureau of Department of Labor, Seated Portrait, National Photo Company, August 1929

Portrait of August Ritter von Loehr created in 1894 using light printing technique, presented on an underground box.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Madame Louis Dubreuilh , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame Louis Dubreuilh). Woman, portrait, accessory, Human beings, clothing, Mme Louis DUBREUILH 19, 7 1917 France, Boulogne, Portrait, Mme Louis Dubreuil

Portrait of the dancer Cléo de Mérode.

IRENE ALBA ABAD - ACTRIZ - 1873/1930 - FOTOGRAFIA BLANCO Y NEGRO. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. ALBA ABAD IRENE. CABA PEDRO ESPOSA.

George Sand (born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist, 1804-1876). Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon); French, 1820-1910. Date: 1864. Dimensions: 23.5 x 19.1 cm (image/paper); 34 x 26.2 cm (mount). Woodburytype, from the periodical "Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique" (1877), volume 2. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Malatestino dall'Occhio, Ostasio, fictional character in Francesca da Rimini, tragedy by Gabriele D'annunzio (1863-1938), photo by Alinari, from L'illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIX, No 12, March 23, 1902.

Photograph of Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934) a Polish and naturalized-French physicist, Nobel Prize winner and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Dated 1900

CLIVE BROOK in SHERLOCK HOLMES (1932).

1961. Portrait of Menchu Gal.

Drawing - Portrait of Madame Lévesque

Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) English actor-manager of the old school against which Henry Arthur Jones and Arthur Wing Pinero reacted. Photograph published London c1890

Portret van Lucy Gertrude Moberly, anonymous, in or after 1900 photomechanical print paper writer, poet, author

Julius Eichberg

Photographic portrait of Joaquín Nin (1879-1949) a Cuban pianist and composer. Dated 20th Century

Mrs Pym, 23 July 1930, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Portada de la revista ilustrada financiera y comercial Adelante, dedicada a la doctora Maria Lluïsa Quadras Bordes (1898-1989), radióloga. Barcelona, febrero de 1922.

Rita Fornia

Edith Louisa Cavell (1865 - 12 October 1915) British nurse who saved the lives of soldiers from both sides in World war One. She was sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy; she was shot by a German firing squad.

Fannie Hurst, American novelist and short story writer, flourished in the 1920s and 1930's. Her short stories, HUMORESQUE and SYMPHONY OF SIX MILLION were made into films. LUMMOX, her 1923 novel, was made into a movie in 1930 (BSLOC_2018_4_33)

Ruth Roland (1892-1937) - an American stage and film actress and film producer. She appeared in her first film for Kalem Studios in 1909 and along with Gene Gauntier was soon billed as a "Kalem Girl." Roland was eventually sent to Kalem's West Coast studio where she was the lead actress and overseer of "Kalem House" where all the actors lived. Pictured here in the role of the Indian Wife in 'Her Indian Mother' (1910). 1910

GERTRUDE M L BELL In 1923 English traveller, archaeologist and government official

George Eliot, Victorian author of the classics SILAS MARNER (1861), and MIDDLEMARCH (1872). Carte de visite from an original daguerreotype, c.1850-59 (BSLOC_2018_4_39)

Portrait of the composer Oskar Fried (1871-1941), Anonymous

MERYL STREEP in THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (1981), directed by KAREL REISZ.

GUERRERO , MARIA. ACTRIZ DE TEATRO ESPAÑOLA . MADRID 1867 - 1928. CARACTERIZADA PARA LA OBRA DE FRANCISCO VILLAESPESA " LA LEONA DE CASTILLA ".

Photograph of Agnes R. Waesche.

Portrait of Helene Kolitz in the th year of life photography after a painting, Peter Altenberg -, Formerly Owned by, after, Louis Kolitz -, Peintre

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Madame Eugénie Colonne , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame Eugénie Colonne). Woman, music, portrait, artistic personality, jewelry, fashion, opera, Human beings, art, personality, clothing, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mme Colonne

Portrait of Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, 1948 photograph Portrait of Juliana. Flowers in her left hand. Sittard cardboard. photographic support

Portrait of Helen Keller

Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, illustration from an original 1523 Painting by Hans Holbein (Holbein the Younger), 1914

Photography.Black and white photography in glass and frame, showing portrait in waist image of Queen Louise (1889-1965).The queen is wearing a dark simple dress with wide collar, at the chest sits a large brooch with two beads, around the neck a pearl necklace.Neutral background.Signed in the right lower corner. Frame is of gold-colored wood, profiled with pearlist closest to the photograph.At the top of the center of the frame is a royal crown of yellow metal.The back is of cardboard, three brass plates for suspension, two top and a bottom.Use: On board ships.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Anonymous

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mademoiselle Lange , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Mademoiselle Lange). Woman, shipwrecked image, portrait, fashion, Human beings, clothing, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Miss Lange

NADEZHDA KONSTANTINOVNA Russian revolutionary, married Lenin 1898, exile in Siberia

Portrait of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands. Portrait of Wilhelmina. In the undermaster her name, her title and a rule Dutch text.

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