Vintage Portraits of Women

A collection of vintage portraits showcasing women in historical attire, featuring elegant hairstyles, intricate clothing, and a sense of formality.

Unidentified woman, three-quarter-length portrait, ca. 187- | Library of Congress

Mrs. Charles E. Curtis

Mother of W. Sulzer

Unidentified woman, three-quarter-length portrait, ca. 187- | Library of Congress

Amelia E. Barr

Mrs. J.Henry Smythe

Maria Pia

Photograph of the Empress, Donna Theresa Christina Maria, of Brazil (born 1822); the wife of Pedro II of Brazil. Date: 1889

Florence Nightingale, (1820-1910) British Nurse

Portrait

Linda Richards, America's First Rained Nurse

Portrait of Queen Margherita di Savoia of Italy (1851-1926), photograph by Guigoni and Bossi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIII, No 43, October 25, 1896.

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Emma (1858-1934), 1928. 1928

M Hallgarth, spiritualist, in a studio photo. Date: 1876

March 1910. The trial of Countess Tarnowska. The maid Elisa Perrier, the Countess's trusted maid.

Mrs. Bishop C. C. Pettey. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American authors

Anna Adams Gordon, President Nat'l W.C.T.U., portrait bust

Office writer and bookkeeper Anna Fredrika Appelin.

(Mrs) Casselton, 09 September 1908, Wellington, by The J. H. Brown Studio.

Copy of a portrait of a woman, inscribed Geggel 6, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co., Emily Florence Cazneau.

Mrs. O. Shepard Barnum of Los Angeles

1890 (ca.). Pilar de Cavia, poetess and sister of Mariano de Cavia.

Mary S. Malone

Mrs. Geo. B. McClellan

Susan B. Anthony 1865. A prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.

Helen Keller 1880-1968, c1930. Helen Adams Keller; American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf, blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Hel

Princess Catherine Radziwill (Mrs. Eugen Kolb)

Writer Willa Cather in 1902 at the age of 28. Her first book APRIL TWILIGHTS, her only volume of poetry, was published the following year.

Grand Duchess Vera of Wurtemberg

Mrs Wright 12 PC portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Clara Barton

Mrs. Torrington

Mrs. Margaret Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama.. Portraits, Photographs, Illustrations. 1897. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African Americans , History, African Americans , Biography

Maria Åkersson Maria Åkersson

Mrs. A.B. Sims

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina at the age of 15 for the first time with raised hair, February 14, 1896, The Hague. February 14, 1896

Nora Stanton (Blatch) DeForest

Portrait of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (1861-1948), wife of President Theodore Roosevelt, 1900.

Frances Willard

Ellen Richards - digital file from original neg. | Library of Congress

Susan B. Anthony 1870. Matthew Brady,

Date: February 1914 - Mrs. Austin W. Lord.

Mary Surratt, fullname Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt, c. 1820 - 1865. American, executed by hanging for involvement in conspiracy which resulted in assassination of American President Abraham Lincol

Constance Mary Wilde (nee Lloyd), Anonymous

Mary Todd Lincoln, circa 1864

Fannie Crosby

Emily Faithfull (1835-1895), women's rights campaigner. She set up a women's printing house, The Victoria Press, promoted women's employment, and appeared as a lecturer in the UK and America. Date: 1891

12/31/1899. A photograph of the Infanta Isabel de Borbón, popularly known as "La Chata".

Jenny Lind

Photographic portrait of Edith Cavell, the nurse arrested by the Germans in August 1915 on charges of helping 200 Allied soldiers escape to the Netherlands. She was executed on October 12th 1915. Date: October 23rd 1915

Photograph of Princess Louise of Belgium (1858-1924) daughter of Leopold II of Belgium and the House Sax Coburg Gotha. Photographed between 1870 and 1880, extracted the collection Felix Potin. Dated 19th Century

Emily Warren Roebling 1843-1903 succeeded her father-in-law John Roebling and her husband Washington Roebling as the field engineer aiding her disabled husband to completion of the Brooklyn Bridge

Washington, D.C.: 1886. The youngest First Lady in history, twenty-one year old Frances Folsom Cleveland.

Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), began her lifelong campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill in the 1840's. At that time, the insane were often incarcerated with violent criminals, who preyed upon them in jails. She successfully advocated the building of state funded mental hospitals for the mentally ill.

Dorothea Lynde Dix, circa 1860

Millicent Fawcett (born Garrett - 1947-1929) English feminist, for 50 years a leader of the movement for women's suffrage. Sister of the pioneer woman physician Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; wife of Henry Fawcett, the blind radical politician. From 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery' (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey.

Portrait of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 1920 - 1926 photograph Portrait of Wilhelmina. Above her title. At the bottom right "Original Deutmann The Hague. The hair ofpublish: rijswijk photographic support

Mrs. Belle von Dorn Harbert

Ambrotype - Mrs. Captain George W. Haws, Quebec City, QC, about 1858

1800S 1860S Belle Boyd Actress And Spy For South During American Civil War She Escaped To England In 1863

Miss Mary Booth

Emily FAITHFULL, 1835-95, philanthropist, published Victoria Magazine, established Victoria Press printing works to provide employment for women

Clara Barton (1821-1912) founder of the American branch of the Red Cross (1881) and its first president (1881-1904). Photograph.

Alphonse, Henriette Renan (common name). Glass photographic plate. Museum of Romantic Life.

Mary Mitchell

Carte de Visite Studio Portrait,

Dame Emma Albani (1852-1930) Canadian opera singer; successful in the leading cities of Europe and America. Born Marie Louise Lajeunesse. From photograph c1890

Rev. John J. Wynne

Amelie Anna Carolina Ekström-Fagerlund. Born 1848, died 1914 in Stockholm. Married 1872 in Jönköping with Carl Adolph Johan Fagerlund, parliamentary man and governor of Kalmar County. Sons: Carl Robert Adolf Fagerlund. Born 1878 in Gävle. Carl Georg Valdemar Fagerlund. Born 1873 in Gävle. Died 1959 in Kalmar. Carl Adolf Vogt Fagerlund. Born 1884 in Gävle. Died 1965 in Djursholm. Amelie Anna Carolina Ekström-Fagerlund. Född 1848, död 1914 i Stockholm. Gift 1872 i Jönköping med Carl Adolph Johan Fagerlund, riksdagsman och landshövding i Kalmar län. Söner: Carl Robert Adolf Fagerlund. Född 1878 i Gävle. Carl Georg Valdemar Fagerlund. Född 1873 i Gävle. Död 1959 i Kalmar. Carl Adolf Vogt Fagerlund. Född 1884 i Gävle. Död 1965 i Djursholm.

Mrs. Stearns

Dame Emma Albani (1852-1930), Canadian opera singer, c1890. Artist: Unknown

Clara Barton, founder of Red Cross by artist unknown

Portrait of George Sand (1804-1876) by Nadar, Felix (1820-1910)/Private Collection/1864/Photograph/France/Portrait

Mrs. Stanley Baldwin -- Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Unionist M.P. for Bewdley, and Lord President of the council.Mrs. Baldwin is one of our leading Political hostesses. April 14, 1935.

Miss A.J. Evans

Luisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for her novel 'Little Women.' She also wrote 'Little Men' and 'Jo's Boys.' She was born in Pennsylvania.

Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1876. The author of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, 1852, came from the religious and abolitionist family of patriarch Lyman Beecher (BSLOC_2018_4_41)

Amelia Harris

Olive A. Cole

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Emma (1858-1934), official photo on the occasion of her 50-year-old Dutch nationality, 1929. 1929

KATHERINE S MACQUOID Popular English novelist Date: 1824 - 1917

Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney

Mrs. Frances P. Parks

Lucretia Garfield (1832-1918), Wife of James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Photograph by Mathew B. Brady, 1870's

Fannie Barrier Williams.. Photographs. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African American women, Williams, Fannie Barrier

Madam Morensi

Mrs Howell 12 12/10, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Lucy Webb Hayes, (1831-89), First Lady of the United States 1877-81, Wife of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Seated Portrait, Photograph, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870's

Woman; inscribed 'Mrs Millier' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Queen Victoria of Great Britain 1885. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 22 January 1901) was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876; she used the additional title of Empress of India

Lawyer Belva Lockwood, half-length portrait, seated, facing right | Library of Congress

Portrait of Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Hanfstaengl, Franz (1804-1877)

Kathi Schratt -- "The Illegitimate Wife" of Emperor Francis Joseph.Kathi Schratt in her highest time of her stage-life, during which she also was playing at the Thalia Theatre, New York, 1882. December 30, 1949. (Photo by Camera Features).

Etching Portrait Of Lucretia Mott American Feminist Social Reformer Antislavery Women'S Rights Suffrage 1793-1880

Photograph of Filomena María Cristina Verdi (1859-1936) the adoptive daughter of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) an Italian opera composer. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of Karl Wilhelm Hagelins Mrs. Hilda.Filden is included in two large photo albums by Director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked long at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Nurse Edith Cavell 1865-1915 A portrait of Edith Cavell, head of L'Ecole d'Infirmiere Dimplonier (Belgian nursing school) in Brussels, in her uniform, before the First World War.

Lucretia Garfield (1832-1918), Wife of James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Photograph by Mathew B. Brady, 1870's

'George Sand', c1893. Artist: Nadar.

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