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Historical Portraits of Women

Vintage portraits of women in elegant historical costumes, depicting fashion and grace from different eras, capturing a sense of nostalgia.

Mrs. A.G. Vanderbilt (Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKim)

Mrs. A.G. Vanderbilt (Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKim)

Eleanor Randolph Wilson

Mrs. J. Speyer

Mrs. John Jacob Astor

Frieda Kempel

Miss Marie Barbara

Mrs. Hugh R. French

Duchess De La Rochefoucauld

Mme. Nordica

Mrs. John E. Somerville

Duchess A or Rosta

Nina Napier

Mercedes Godoy, standing

Olga of Russia

Mrs. Geo. McManus

Elizabeth Amsden

Thyra Von Ulm ca. 1910-1915.

Crown Princess Montenegro.

Mrs. Sumner Welles

Mrs. Ernest Dunkels

Berta Mills, White, N.Y.

Princess Henry of Prussia, seated reading Gestenlich gesch

Margaret Woodrow Wilson

Mrs. Harold McCormick

Mrs. C.P. Dugmore

Florence Walton

Miss Marie Barbara

Edna De Lima

May Peterson

Grand Duchess Olga ca. 1910-1913 .

Agnes O'Gorman

04/30/1912. Madame cora Laparcerie in the Comedy, by Cain and Payen, "Agnés, lady Galante", Premiered in the Parisian theaters. Photo: Cosmia -Approximate date.

Helen Hyde

Anita Stewart

Mrs. H.P. Renshaw

Mrs. E.B. McLean

Lydia Eustis

Barbara Rutherfurd

Mrs. George Law

Duchess Rutland

Mrs. E.B. Close

Mrs. Warren Fairbanks

Carola Rechberg

Yvette Guilbert

Beatrice La Palme

Gladys Cooper

Lois Ewell

Katherine Kaelred seated on bench, Moffett Photo.

Anne Morgan

Eleanor Painter

Violet Heming

Elise Ladew

Woman, 30 October 1939, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Mrs. John W. Hunt

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

Edith Wynne Matthison

Martha Stiefler

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress

Mrs Clay 6 x 8 coupon studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Actress Fannie Brice, Fashion Portrait, Bain News Service, 1921

Mrs. Henry Spies Kip

Lina Cavalier dans Thais

Virginia Mackay-Smith

03/31/1915. Debut of an Artist. The famous cupletista La Fornarina with the dress of the latest Paris fashion with which she performed on Friday night at the Apolo theater (photo provided by the Artist).

08/31/1917. Actresses of the Reina Victoria theater -consuelo Hidalgo - Photos Walken, Amadeo and Bert -Approximate date.

Doris Kean in "Roxana"

Emma Trentini

05/31/1909. The Valencia beauty pageant. Miss Rosa de Figuera de Lacerda, who has won the first prize. Photo by Moy.

Lillian Gish (1896-1993) American stage, silent and talkie actress. Still from the film 'The Wedding', 1912. Photograph

'Helene', c1893. Artist: Giacomo Brogi.

Actress Edna Hibbard, Fashion Portrait in Long Dress and Hat, Bain News Service, 1921

QUEEN SOURIYA OF AFGHANISTAN Wife of King Amanullah of Afghanistan. The couple visited London in March 1928. 17 March 1928

Marie Alexandra Victoria, a member of the British royal family, married King Ferdinand I of Romania, becoming the queen consort of Romania. 1875-1938

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 April 18, 1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the United States Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family.During World War I, Gertrude Whitney dedicated a great deal of her time and money to various relief efforts, establishing and maintaining a hospital for wounded soldiers in Juilly

Mrs. Frank Avery

12/31/1915. Empress Zita, wife of Charles Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. Photo: C. Pietzner -Approximate date.

Miss M. Kennedy & "Pomeranian i.e., Pomeria Buttercup"

Front cover of the Tatler - America and the Peerage - Miss Mary ('May') Goelet, American heiress, who married Henry Innes-Kerr, 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903, becoming Duchess of Roxburghe and bringing with her a dowry of some $20 million. Numerous impoverished peers married wealthy American heiresses during this period, who in return for the substantial dowries earned a title and the prestige of being chatelaine of some of the finest stately homes in England. May appears in fancy dress in this

Ober as Amneris - ca. 1910-1915.

Margaret Anglin, Sarony, N.Y,

In "Lola Cruz" (1935) by Ernesto Lecuona.

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

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), labor leader and feminist associated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), American Civil Liberties Union, and American Communist Party.

Princess Marie, Greece

Mme. Zarska

Mrs. Wm. Phillips

Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), famous American dancer who introduced to modern dance a new style, dancing barefooted and barelegged, with uncorseted body clad in a filmy tunic. no date or location.

Justine Johnstone

Leona Mary Jewell

06/30/1914. The Prosecuted, Mme. Caillaux, Slayer of the director of "le Figaro", M. Calmette.

Grace George as Lady Teazle

Leonora Sparkes

Anefo photo collection. Toneelactrice Esther de Boer-van Rijk (1853-1937) in request rollers as Marie in "De Meid" by Herman Heijermans

Farrar

Chrystal Herne

Lucrezia Bori

(Dorothy Willard) Mrs. Richard Hooker

"Dame Margaret Lloyd George".. on...a Most recent photograph of ***** former premier, as she appears fame of the British Royal court. June 16, 1923. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

Miss Clare Kummer at piano

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