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Vintage Portraits of Notable Women

Historic black and white portraits featuring elegant women from the past, dressed in formal attire, conveying a sense of sophistication and heritage.

Duchess of Montrose

Mrs. D. Lloyd George

Duchess of Montrose

Mrs. G.C. West (Lady Randolph Churchill)

Mrs. W.A.F. Ekengren

Dorothea Warren O'Hara

Mrs. J.T. Brush

Mrs. E.B. Granhis

Collins PC, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Copy of a portrait of a woman, inscribed Newman, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Rev. Caroline B. Crane

Ethel Arnold

Dowager Empress of Russia, cameo portrait 11 7 1924.

Princess Eitel Friedrich

Josephine Daskam Bacon

Dr. Mary Crawford

Mrs. W.H. Carnegie

Princess Eitel Frits

Mrs. Russell Hopkins

Mrs. B. Griffeth

Mrs Adams, 1900-1917, Dannevirke, by Alfred Henderson.

Langford, circa 1910, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 1867 1953) - Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the consort of King-Emperor George V. Date: circa 1905

Duchess Hamilton

Margaret Woodrow Wilson, 1886-1944, circa 1912

Mrs. F.B. Harrison

Corinne Rider - Kelsey, cameo portrait, copyright: A. Dupont, 574 Fifth Ave., N.Y.

Mrs. G.W. Wickersham

Juila Marlowe

Cecilie Meyer

Hunter 6, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mrs. Alb. Cummings i.e., Cummins

Ellen TERRY, English actress as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Performed this role circa 1882-3. Photograph by Window & Grove.

Paterson, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Beatrice Harraden

Countess Jametel (Marie of Mecklenburg Strelitz).

Rose Fritz, champion typist, at typewriter

Daisy, Princess Henry of Pless (1873 - 1943), formerly Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West. A great Edwardian society beauty, she married one of Imperial Germany's wealthiest princes in 1891. Her memoirs are an insightful record of the Edwardian era. Here featured in The Tatler in 1904 when she played a promient part in theatricals at Chatsworth House during King Edward VII's visit. Date: 1904

Gertrude Sheldon

Mrs. George J. Karb

Mrs. Wm. A. Manning

Princess Louise Auguste of Schleswig Holstein

Mrs. S. Swanson

Wilhelmina 31 August 1880 - 28 November 1962) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II

Mrs. M. Alexander

Mary E. Cheek, portrait bust

Anderson, Elsie PC, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mr WY Gilbert, 06 January 1908, Wellington, by The J. H. Brown Studio.

Nellie Brown

'Madame Marni', c1893. Artist: Eugene Pirou.

PRINCESS ALICE OF ALBANY COUNTESS of ATHLONE (1883 - 1981) Granddaughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Prince Alexander of Teck. Pictured at the time of her marriage. Date: 1904

Mary E. McDowell

Louise Scott Garland

Mrs. Luells Johnston

Mrs. John Lind

Alice Paul, born 1885 died 1977. American feminist and social reformer, born into a Quaker family in Moorestown, New Jersey. She was educated at Swarthmore College and Pennsylvania University, where she gained a PhD in 1912. She spent some years in England, becoming involved in the militant branch of the suffrage movement and was arrested several times and imprisoned. From 1912, back in the USA, she formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Her forceful personality attracted wide suppor

Budapest. Portrait Queen Elisabeth (1870, retouched 1898)

Her majesty Queen Alexandra ca. 1913.

Mrs. J.P. Mitchel

Jessie Stillman Kelly

Mrs. Jno. Schenk

Elizabeth Robins

Mrs. Geo. T. Guernsey

Judieth Gautier (1845-1917), French poet and historical novalist. Date: circa 1860s

Alice Mary Dempsey, circa 1910, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Lady Randolph Churchill (born Jennie Jerome - 1854-1921) American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill who be came British Prime Minister. From 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery' (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey.

Mrs. L.M.N. Stevens, President of Nat'l W.C.T. U. seated with book

Miss Thurslie, 1900-1917, Dannevirke, by Alfred Henderson.

Clarke 3 Ord, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mrs. Wm. Grant Brown

Judge Mary Bartelme

Kate Richards O'Hara

Helen Ring Robinson

Mrs. Winston Churchill of England

Portrait of an Unidentified Woman, circa 1928, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

Mrs. J.J. Richardson

Woodside - Adkin family portraits : 1918-1919, 1918-1919, Levin, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964.

Photographic portrait of Viscountess Nancy Astor (1879-1964), the British politician, pictured c.1920. Date: 1920

Anna Pendleton Schenck

Mrs T Herd, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

12/31/1911. Portrait of the Infanta María Teresa de Borbón.

Louise Homer

Lassen 6 Ps, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Miss Stevenson 12 PC, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Mrs. J.M. Sutton, Edmonston

Portrait of an Unidentified Woman, circa 1928, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

'Anna Williams, eminent English oratora singer of the last quarter of the 19th century, pictured c1890. At the end of the century she retired from the platform to concentrate on teaching.'

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (1872-1952), Anonymous

Florence Lincoln circa 1910-1915.

Beulah Kennard

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Juliana, 1956. 1956

African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

Mrs. Judson Harmon

Mrs. Mary Hutchings ,. Leon Abdalian Collection

Mme. Marie Curie

Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943), First Lady of the United States 1909-1913 as wife of U.S. President William Howard Taft, Three-Quarter Length Seated Portrait during William Howard Taft's appointment as U.S. Secretary of War, Photograph by Barnett McFee Clinedinst, 1905

Elsevier photo collection. Wilhelmina von der Finck-Ellenberger (1837-1917), actress, died. undated

Mrs C Michaelson, 1937, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

10/31/1909. Minister and Typist. Mad. Zahle, wife of the new President of the Council of Denmark and Parliamentary Typist. (photo Trampus).

Countess of Aberdeen

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