Vintage Fashion Photography

Black and white portraits of women in historical clothing, displaying diverse styles and cultural attire from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Lady Constance Richardson
Lady Constance Richardson
Edmund RussellMrs. Arthur S. Burden at NewportPrincess Eulalie i.e., EulaliaMarie Lloyd, c1910s. Creator: Unknown.Constance Edwina (n饠Cornwallis West), Duchess of Westminster (later Mrs James Fitzpatrick Lewes) (died 1970), First wife of 2nd Duke of Westminster. She set up and ran a hospital in the casino at Le Touquet during the First World War. Interestingly, the dog at her feet looks suspiciously like a German Shepherd!       Date: 1914Queen Victoria's pictures. Queen Victoria on the left.Wilma K. RusseyMme. AldaElla Flagg YoungMiss Marion RiceBerenice Abbott, Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco, 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.Lady Galway at Government House, Wellington, 1939, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.Hayes, Mrs. Rutherford B., wife of PresidentElsevier photo collection. Series: Drakensteyn Castle inhabited Princess Beatrix. Princess Beatrix telephones standing front window. 1965. Lage VuurscheFrances WhiteMrs. Malcolm Strauss & "Beaux Attos" i.e., AthosPercy Grainger and motherEthel Stebbins10/31/1917. Felipe Ii plays, in White Astrakhan, with a feather striped in white and Blue. Lewis House Model.Miss Griffin 6x8 coupon studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negativesMrs. A. Sutton. April 18, 1951. (Photo by The Sunday Herald).Mrs. Margaret SangerLady Marjorie MannersMrs. Öman. Photo in June 1946. Fru Öman. Foto i juni 1946.12/31/1928. Pilar Careaga, Daughter of the Count of Cadagua.Miss Gladys Cooper as "Beauty", Miss Alexandra Carlisle as "Everywoman", Miss Patricia Collinge as "Youth", in "Everywoman"Evelyn ThawMrs. H.S. BlatchLady Iris Mary Athenais de Vere Capell (1895-1977), elder daughter of George Devereaux De Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex and his American wife, Adela Beach Grant, pictured in nursing uniform at Watford Hospital awaiting the arrival of wounded soldiers.  Iris came out as a debutante in 1913 and attended Oxford University.  She never married.       Date: 1914Pearl AufrereTrixie FriganzaMrs. Walter W. Foley ,.  Leon Abdalian CollectionMarie Von Fery-BognarAlberta Perkins, who portrays Mom Robbins. 1937 - 1937. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans , Performing arts, African Americans , Theater, African American theater, African Americans in the performing arts, Plays, Theatrical productions, The Case of Philip LawrenceHeifetzEliz. GutmanAnefo photo collection. Carla Muller from the first Dutch show Academy in The Hague. December 19, 1961. The Hague, South HollandMrs. John D. Wainwright. Original caption: Mrs. John D. Wainwright, sponsor for U.S. Submarine Marlin, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH.. 1941-01-29T00:00:00.Mrs. Toriko Nohagi, nurse of newborn Japanese Prince1930 - Ruth Hanna McCormick smiling while holding a telephoneMata Hari photographed by Kaulak on the occasion of her visit to Spain in 1908.African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.Genevieve ClarkEva Cooper, 1910s, New Zealand, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.07/20/1922. Madrid. In the ABC editorial office. The gentle French artist Musidora (X), who yesterday took part in the party held to benefit the press association at the Center theater, during her visit to the Spanish press house.Helene DutrieuQUEEN VICTORIA in 1885Edmee Dormeuil, French actress and star of The Better Ole, the musical play based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander.  She played the part of the heroine, a vivandiere who loves Old  Bill (the central character) and who eventually gives evidence that turns him from traitor to hero.  The play, written by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Eliot enjoyed a terrific run at the Oxford Theatre, London.       Date: 1917Anefo photo collection. Beatrix reveals painting the portrait of Queen Juliana in Lower House; The painting of painter Sierk Schröder. April 29, 1974Photograph of Mrs H. Riordan, American suffragette, New York. Dated 1910Miss Madelaine Henriques11/30/1923. A Painter Princess. Princess Stephanie of Belgium, widow of Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary, and today wife of Prince Lonyay, who works as a painter in his palace.Anefo photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina for the microphone from Radio Orange July 28, 1940. July 28, 1940. Great Britain, LondonMiss Ethel Le Neve Crippen. February 22, 1955.Washington, D.C.: September 26, 1924 A portrait of labor and community organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones when she met with President Coolidge at the White House.Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory, 1912, the year after she was awarded her second Nobel prize (for chemistry). Awarded Nobel prize for physics in 1903 jointly with her husband, Pierre, and Henri Becquerel.Miss Cynthia - Butler in 1910. August 1, 1935.03/31/1918. Princes in Barcelona. Princess Beatriz de Borbón, Sister of D. Jaime and wife of the Italian Prince Fabricio Máximo (Massimo), accompanied by her Daughters, Princesses Margaret and Fabiola, and her Nephew, Prince George, son of Princess Alice.03/31/1917. Miss Grace Ford, captain of the Riding Hoot team, Edinburgh.Miss E. Moore - digital file from original neg. | Library of CongressSybilla, Queen of Power, 1910, exact location unknown, Germany, Europe