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Vintage Actress Portraits

Classic photographic portraits of early 20th-century actresses, featuring elegant attire and vintage styles, reflecting a bygone era of glamour and artistry.

Adele Rowland in ""Irene""

Ruth Harriet Louise, Marion Davies, 1928, gelatin silver print.

May Alvos de Sousa, 1884 - 1948. American singer and Broadway actress. Seen here in 1900 shortly after she introduced Bathhouse John's ballad, "Dear Midnight of Love" at the Chicago Opera House. Fr

Elsevier photo collection. portrait Princess Juliana (1937). August 11, 1937

Mitzi Hajos in ""Naughty Riquette"", 1928

Portrait of Geraldine Farrar. Vintage Photoplay Magazine photograph portrait of the movie actress, circa 1915

1934 (CA.). The singer Estrellita Castro with mantilla.

MARY PICKFORD. 1923.

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim, 1926, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Julia Jackson. Julia Margaret Cameron; English, 1815-1879. Date: 1864. Dimensions: 24.5 × 19.7 cm (image/paper); 41.9 × 31.6 cm (mount). Albumen print. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Erika Kaufmann as undine in the eponymous opera of Albert Lortzing. Probably State Opera Dresden, around 1920. Photography of Adolf Dous (World postcard with studio embossing stamp, verso designated)

Amalia Guglielminetti (1881-1941), Italian poet, photograph by Nunes Vais, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XL, No 22, June 1, 1913.

Portrait of Jane Cowl - Goldwyn Star

Vintage Etching Drawing of actress Norma Talmadge by Walter Tittle published in Photoplay magazine 1921

Portrait of Lenore Ulric, Who plays the leading role in David Belasco's production, of ""Tiger Rose"" a melodrama of the great Northwest by Willard Mack at the Lyceum Theatre

CARMEN RODRIGUEZ.

Portrait of Mies Rosenboom-Merkelbach.

1934 (CA.). The singer Estrellita Castro.

Portrait of Operetette singer Ida Haschka ..

Nina Ivanovna Petrovskaya, Anonymous

Beautiful Russian Actress with extraordinary long dark hair and holding a small posy of flowers Date: 1920s

USA, New York, Studio shot of Muriel Kirkland in ""The Greeks Had a Word for It"" at Sam H. Harris Theatre

Card Number 105, F. Johnson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 11/16 × 1 3/8 in. (6.8 × 3.5 cm). Publisher: Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.). Date: 1880s.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. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

LOPEZ, Encarnación (Buenos Aires, 1895-Nueva York, 1945), llamada "LA ARGENTINITA". Bailarina española.

Silent Film Actress and Model Olive Thomas, Publicity Portrait , 1910's

Silent Film Actress Viola Dana, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, early 1920's

The child actress, Iris Hawkins. Date: 1906

Edith Wharton, American author, 1910, by Peter Powel. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, for her novel, 'The Age of Innocence' (BSLOC_2019_8_131)

'G. De Vere', (c1880-1950), c1930. Creator: Unknown.

Cleo de Merode / Anonymous / Photochrom / 1903-1904 / France / Private Collection / Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Portrait

Card Number 86, Frankie Kemble, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) 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" (N145-2), 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 second subset, N145-2. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.. Card Number 86, Frankie Kemble, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) 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.)

Portrait of a telephone girl engraved directly from a negative transmitted over a telephone wire in 1924 Date: 1924

A Ralston girl ,. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Margarett Sargent McKean , c. 1928, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Dorothy Parker at age 19, in a 1912 portrait by society photographer Arnold Genthe. By 1914 she was working at Vogue, and then Vanity Fair. Her most important magazine association was with The New Yorker (BSLOC_2020_2_54)

Raquel Meller. Francisca Márqués López (1888-1962). Cantante, cupletista y actriz española. Fotografía con dedicatoria personal y firma autógrafa de la artista. Año 1956.

The photographer of this image is M Goulart of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Manuel Goulart is a noted historical figure in American photography. In fact, he and his brother Jose Goulart were the subject of a book, "Two Brothers Goulart: Photography in New Bedford and the Azores" (1996). The Azorean brothers became interested in photography in the 1870's. They were from the Portuguese island of Faial in the Azores and came to New Bedford in 1889. Between 1892 and at least 1899, Manuel Goulart's studio was located at 109 South Sixth Street in New Bedford. Manuel died at the age of 80 in 1946 and had studio in New Bedford. Mrs Palmeira 1926.

POLA NEGRI.

Clementine Churchill while still Miss Clementine Hozier, featured in The Sketch magazine in the week prior to her marriage to Winston Churchilll on 12th September 1908. Date: 1908

Anderson, 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.. Anderson, 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.)

Anna May Wong (Wong Liu Tsong) (1905 - 1961), Chinese-American actress

Mrs. Richard Dehmel. Collection of Juhl, acquired 1916

Mrs. Jan Kubelik

Romanian Royalty - Queen Maria (1875-1938) and Princess Ileana (1909-1991) - who later became the Archduchess of Austria. Date: circa 1910s

Portrait of Raquel Meller (1888-1962), Anonymous

Ellen Alice Terry, (1847-1928), English actress, here as Viola, a breeches role, in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Photogravure c.1895

Fannie Leslie, British singer and actress, 1882. Artist: Unknown

Portrait of Madame Catulle Mendes

Camera Work: Frau Mathasius, 1904. J. Craig Annan (British, 1864-1946). Photogravure;

1934 (CA.). The singer Estrellita Castro, with a guitar.

Jeanne 1917 Morton Schamberg American. Jeanne 261027

USA, New York, Bronx Opera House, Actress from ""Maytime""

Silent Film Actress Zalla Zarana, born Rozalija Srsen in Zuzemberk, Slovenia, Publicity Portrait by Hartsook Photo, 1920's

Maryla of Falken as Agrippina

Lilian and Dorothy Gish American actresses and sisters - they both appeared in early silent movies

Azucena according to the image of Nathaniel Sichel. A clip from a German magazine. Bong, Richard (1853 1935), Sichel, Nathaniel (1843 1907)

May Haines

Elisabeth Rethberg as micaela

Eva Plaschke-of the East as Sieglinde

Actress Alberta Vaughn, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, Photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser, 1920's

THEDA BARA in CLEOPATRA (1917), directed by J. GORDON EDWARDS.

BILLIE DOVE.

01/01/1936. Conchita Piquer.

Ellen Terry, At The Age of 16. Heliogravure from Camera Work, January 1913. Collection of Juhl

Card Number 105, F. Johnson, 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 105, F. Johnson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes 646927

Helen Keller at 12 years of age in 1892.

ALICE DAVENPORT.

EDNA PURVIANCE.

PIQUER, CONCHA. ACTRIZ Y CANTANTE ESPAÑOLA. VALENCIA 1908-1991. PORTADA DE LA REVISTA CINE-MIROIR. PARIS 1928.

Ivy Martinek - Silent Movie Star who featured in nearly 30 films between 1909 and 1917. In the role of an Indian Squaw for a British & Colonial Kinematograph Company production. Often appeared with (or was directed by) her brother Oceano Martinek. circa 1912

Louise Beaudet, silent film actress, vocalist, and dancer, head-and-shoulders, 1891. photographed by Benjamin Falk, 1853-1925

Hedwig Bleibtreu as Beatrix, Role picture from Der Schwan by Molnár, Burgtheater, Franz Xaver Setzer -

Consuelo Bello, llamada "La Fornarina" (1875-1915). Cupletista, cantante ligera española.

Eleanor Boardman (1898-1991), actriz de cine estadounidense. Cromo de la colección Artistas célebres del film.

Nettie Kimball, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes ca. 1888 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 1), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes.. Nettie Kimball, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes 414516

12/31/1917. Mme. Lise Plantie in a black satin coat and wide otter trim.

Miss Ellen Terry. State state plan Hamburg, collection of the history of photography

GAMEZ , CELIA. CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ ARGENTINA. AFINCADA EN ESPAÑA DESDE 1925. BUENOS AIRES 1905 - 1992.

Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and two of her children, Princess Marie Jose (aged 8) and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (aged 12). The Belgian Queen and her three children had been invited to Britain by King George V for their safety during the German invasion of their country in the early days of the First World War. Date: 1914

Portrait Of Eva Herrmann. Alfred Stieglitz (United States, 1864-1946). United States, circa 1920, printed circa 1920. Photographs. Gelatin silver print

Gelatin silver print - Princess Atsit-Satsi, Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, 1922-1950

Vintage Etching Drawing of actress Mary Pickford by Walter Tittle published in Photoplay magazine 1921

Portret van Phyllis Broughton, anonymous, c. 1879 - in or before 1884 photomechanical print paper historical persons. adult woman

Klavdia Mikhaylovna Novikova (1895-1968), Anonymous

Eva from the East as Margarete

A superb photographic portrait of a smiling and very pretty French girl, wearing a garland of pink roses. Date: 1920s

Poetess Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Anonymous

LINA CAVALIERI Italian singer, on an art deco style postcard Date: 1874 - 1944

Helena Forti as a kundry

Helen Ware

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) - French novelist and performer. Colette (L) and a friend. Date: circa 1905

Anne Grey, English Actress, 1933. Artist: Unknown

Élise de Vère, a French stage actress . Dated 20th Century

Erich Zimmermann as David in "The Mastersinger of Nuremberg" by Richard Wagner. Bayreuth Festival, 21.07.1933

Miss Mabel Green (Actress and vocalist, born London 1890 - died c.1970), standing alongside her fine open-top Sunbeam car ("which she drives herself") at Johannesburg, South Africa. Miss Green was married in Johannesburg to Mr Stanley Steele. This picture was taken prior to their return to London. Date: circa 1925

Poetess Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) / Anonymous / Photograph / c. 1925 / Russia / Private Collection / Portrait

Young woman, tunisia, africa 1920 1930.

GLORIA SWANSON in WHY CHANGE YOUR WIFE (1920), directed by CECIL B DEMILLE.

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Actress Joan Crawford, Publicity Portrait inside The New Movie Magazine, May 1930

Portda de la revista ilustrada Iris, editada en Barcelona, agosto de 1899.

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