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Theatrical Performers in Costumes

Dramatic images of performers in elaborate costumes, emphasizing theatricality and artistry from various eras.

Dancer Isadora Duncan by Anonymous  /Private Collection/c. 1906/Phototypie/Music, Dance,Portrait
Dancer Isadora Duncan by Anonymous /Private Collection/c. 1906/Phototypie/Music, Dance,Portrait
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Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, Anonymous
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MAE BUSCH.
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Portrait of Blanche Montaubry, cousin of the Tenor Montaubry, and Dancer at the Opera between 1861 and 1873. Portrait of Blanche Montaubry, cousin of the Tenor Montaubry, and dancer at the opera between 1861 and 1873. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper. 1860-1890. Photograph of Andr� Adolphe DISDIER Eugene (Active of 1819-1889).
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Lothar Perscheid, son of the photographer. State state plan Hamburg, collection of the history of photography
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Marie Studholme (1875-1930), English actress, 1904.Artist: J Beagles & Co
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Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (1876 - 1965), formerly ELISABETH OF BAVARIA.  Wife of King Albert I, during World War One she was popular for her resistance to the German invasion.     Date: 1930
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Portrait of Mrs. Rooyaards-Sandberg as Gretchen in 'Faust', Jacob Merkelbach (attributed to), 1920 photograph  Amsterdam photographic support gelatin silver print historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) - BB - woman
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Film still of Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) from 'Cleopatra'.
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Elisabeth Rethberg.
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ANNA MAY WONG.
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Evelyn Ankers (1918 - 1985) British actress.   1937
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Mrs. Newbold Edgar
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Portrait of Humberta (Amélie Pauline Fachini, Say), Actress Humberta (Amélie Pauline Fachini, Say), actress ". Anonymous photography.
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Portrait of Helga by Atelier Koppitz, printed using bromine oil print around 1920.
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12/31/1933. The dancer Nati Morales.
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Paule Delys, theatre actress, 1904.Artist: Walery
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Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina by Anonymous  /Private Collection/1912/Photograph/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Portrait
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Pierrot Running 1854-55 Nadar French In late 1853, Félix Tournachon (Nadar) paid Gustave Le Gray to teach photography to his younger brother, Adrien, a painter of some talent frequently in his charge. At the same time Félix himself learned to use the camera from his friend Camille D'Arnaud. Promising to assist his brother, Félix set up a studio for him on the Boulevard des Capucines. Adrien worked alone until September 1854, then turned to Félix for help. The two brothers collaborated until January 1855, when competitive friction ruptured the arrangement and led to a lawsuit through which Félix recovered sole use of his pseudonym, Nadar. During the time they worked together, the brothers made a series of large photographs of Charles Debureau, son of Baptiste Debureau, the famous mime of the Thétre des Funambules. These photographs attracted much public attention and won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1855 in Paris. Designed as an elaborate publicity campaign for the p
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Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), English society beauty and mistress to the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), became a successful theatrical actress. 1887 portrait by B.J. Falk.
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A charming detail of Princess Marina of Greece's trousseau - a cape of ostrich feathers shaded pink and heavy georgette of the same colour.  The magnificent ostrich feathers for the cape, designed by Molyneux, were presented by the people of Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa. Princess Marina of Greece married Prince George, Duke of Kent on 29 November 1934 at Westminster Abbey.     Date: 1934
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Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). Actriz de cine y teatro francesa. Grabado de 1894.
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Anna Pavlova, Anonymous
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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924), directed by RAOUL WALSH.
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Lillian Gish 1896-1993 American stage, silent and sound film actress. Standbild from the film The wedding, 1912. Photography, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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Sarah Bernardt in a New York Production. Date/Period: 1892. Photographyy. Albumen print cabinet card Albumen print cabinet card. Height: 143 mm (5.62 in); Width: 98 mm (3.85 in). Author: Napoleon Sarony.
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THEDA BARA in CLEOPATRA (1917), directed by J. GORDON EDWARDS.
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Portraits of Lady Patricia Ramsay (1886-1974) and of her son, Alexander Ramsay of Mar (1919-2000), photographs from The Tatler, No 1403, May 16, 1928, London.
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Portrait of Clotilde from Derp-Sacharoff, photographed by Hugo Erfurth on silver gelatin paper, retouched, mounted on a box in 1912.
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Sontag, Henriette Gertrude Walpurgis.
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Portada de la revista La Actualidad, dedicada a Sarah Bernhardt. Barcelona, diciembre de 1911.
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Mrs. R.H. Davis & sister
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Portrait of Tilly Losh, Leading Dancer of Vienna Opera Ballet, Max Reinhardt's season at Century Theatre
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08/31/1915. Rosario Leonis.
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Andree Pascal (1882-1969) and Marcelle Praince, actresses, France 20th century.
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The Duchess of Portland photographed for the front cover of The Tatler looking very serene and practical in a nurse's uniform.  She was president of the Great Savoy Fair which was under the patronage of the King and Queen and was opened by Princess Patricia of Connaught.  As the caption comments, "The duches is indefatiagable in helping forward every good work, and in her home district in Nottinghamshire, as elsewhere, she is universally beloved".     Date: 1918
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Chicago, Illinois:  c. 1880 A woman vaudeville performer sits morosely for a portrait
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Alberta Gallatin, American stage and film actress. Kane, Shipman & Colvin present the emotional actress, Alberta Gallatin. Lithograph Co., c1906. Alberta Gallatin (April 5, 1861 - August 25, 1948) was an American stage and film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to at least one of her obituaries, the American critic Alexander Woollcott had considered Gallatin "the greatest American-born actress ever to grace the stage."
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Thelma Cox
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Mae Marsh, the 'little pet sister' of 'The Birth of a Nation'.
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Josephine Baker, La Folie Du Jour revue at Folies-Bergere, Paris, 1926
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Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983), American film actress, in a winter coat and hat, 1920
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Portrait of Lyda Borelli (1884-1959), Italian actress and diva of silent films, photograph by Varischi and Artico, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXV, No 25, June 21, 1908.
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Mata Hari (Lady Macleod)
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Mary Anderson (1859-1940). American actress. Mary Anderson in the role of Hermione, wife of Pyrrhus. Engraving in The Iberian Illustration, 1885.
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The new Mimi: Mlle. Kousnietzoff in "La Bohème", 1909. Mlle. Kousnietzoff, of the Imperial Opera, St. Petersburg, has already appeared successfully at Covent Garden as Marguerite in Gounod's ''Faust" and as Mimi in "La Bohème." It is to be hoped that she will be heard as Juliet'. Russian opera singer and ballet dancer Maria Kuznetsova. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.
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King Archibaldo, interpreted by Walter Tumiati (1876-1971), from L'Amore dei tre Re , Opera by Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952), represented at Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1910, Italy, photo by Dante Paolocci (1856 -1926), from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVII, No 17, April 24, 1910.
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Ellen Alice Terry 1847-1928 English actress. From 1878 she worked successfully with Henry Irving for 25 years. Here as a viola, a trouser roll in what you want from William Shakespeare. Heliogravure, approx. 1895., historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not stated
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Eric Burroughs. 1936. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Burroughs, Eric, 1911-1992, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
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c.1929 Black and white photograph, hula girl Libbie Keani.
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Anonymous actress, from the Actresses series (T123, Type 2), issued by Neil McCoull Co. to promote Syrian Princess Egyptian Cigarettes ca. 1897 Issued by Neil McCoull Co. Trade cards from the "Actresses" series (T123), issued ca. 1897 by Neil McCoull Co. to promote their Syrian Princess and Daliska tobacco brands. There are two types of cards in the series. Type 1 Cards are smaller in size and the actresses name on the lower edge of recto. Type 2 Cards are a slightly larger size and have the tobacco brand, rather than the actresses name, emblazoned on the card recto. This is a Type 2 Card.. Anonymous actress, from the Actresses series (T123, Type 2), issued by Neil McCoull Co. to promote Syrian Princess Egyptian Cigarettes 638142
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Card Number 45, Randall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes 1880s Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-1), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the first subset, N145-1. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.. Card Number 45, Randall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. 1880s. Albumen photograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)
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Lovely colour illustration of the actress Fay Compton, who at the time was leaving the UK to star in Olympia, the play by Franz Molnar in New York.       Date: 1928
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Mata Hari / Anonymous   / Photograph / 1910/ Private Collection / Portrait
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Mary Pickford as Rosita
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AVA GARDNER in BHOWANI JUNCTION (1956), directed by GEORGE CUKOR.
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12/31/1905. Portrait of the dancer Bela Rosina.
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Marie Lloyd, born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870 - 1922), British music hall singer, entertainer and comedienne.  A global superstar in her day commanding the highest salary of any entertainer. Pictured early in her career on the front cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine in March 1892.     Date: 1892
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Mata Hari in La Scala, Anonymous
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Harriet Bosse Furusund STRINDBERG 1904 his 3rd wife
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Leopold Hamilton Myers as 'The Compassionate Cherub'. Eveleen W. H. Myers (British, 1856 - 1937)
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Portada de la revista popular "El Cine", con Dorothy Dalton (1893-1972), actriz estadounidense en portada. Editada en Madrid, julio 1923.
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Katie Seymour, actress, singer and dancer, 1901.Artist: Mendelssohn
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Elsevier photo collection. Singer Tilly Koenen canary "Caruso" dog "Kwik". 1920
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Bessie Berriscale seen here with Rosetta Maristini, played in silent films of the First World war era
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Magdalena Seebe as undine
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ROSARIO LA CORTIJERA. DIRECTOR, LEON ARTOLA. AÑO 1935. ACTRIZ: ESTRELLITA CASTRO.
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Frank Robert Benson 1858-1939 English actor and director who specialized in Shakespeare roles. Here as Thesisus, one of the young lovers, in a summer night dream of William Shakespeare. Heliogravure, approx. 1895., historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not stated
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María Barrientos (Barcelona, 1883-Ziburu, 1946). Soprano lírica.
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Card Number 77, Fay Templeton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes 1880s Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-4), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the fourth subset, N145-4. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.. Card Number 77, Fay Templeton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes 647040
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Portrait of a Woman with Diadem. Louis Fleckenstein, photographer (American, 1866 - 1943) 1907-1943 check mark, pencil, verso center
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'Zena Dare (1887-1975) born Florence Henriette Zena Dones, English actress and singer who appeared in early 20th century musical theatre and musical comedies.'
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Woman (Julia Arthur) in Middle Eastern (Salome) costume  | Library of Congress
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Florence Lee
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Photograph of Emmy Destinn (1878-1930) a Czech operatic soprano. Dated 20th Century
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Constance Collier (1878-1955) and Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917), English actors, 1906.Artist: FW Burford
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The daughters of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece, nieces of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who all were bridesmaids at his wedding to Lady Edwina Ashley on 18 July 1922.  The top photograph shows Princess Cecily and Princess Sophie, the bottom left is Princess Theodora and the bottom right is Princess Margaret.  The four girls are all elder sisters of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.     Date: 1922
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SACHA GUITRY  French actor and playwright,  with his wife Yvonne Printemps  during a visit to London      Date: 1929
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Henriette Margarethe Hiebel Niederauer (1905-1940), conocida como La Jana, actriz austríaca, y Fritz van Dogen (1901-1975) también conocido como Philipp Dorn (1901-1975), actor neerlandés. Año 1938.
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Ruth St. Denis, actress, holding rose
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Hettie Lee, around 1870, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original.
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Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (later Queen consort Elizabeth of Great Britain), dressed up for a garden party in the grounds of Glamis Castle. 1907 - 1908
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Actress Billie Dove, Publicity Portrait inside The New Movie Magazine, May 1930
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Marilyn Miller (1898  1936), dancer, singer and actress, popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s.     Date: 1930
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The actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Mashiba Hisayoshi. Donation Gerhard Schack
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ESTRELLITA CASTRO. ESTRELLA CASTRO NAVARRETE. ACTRIZ Y CANTANTE ESPAÑOLA. SEVILLA 1914 - 1983. PARTITURAS.
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Peggy O'Neil, Irish
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