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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
Unidentified woman, three-quarter-length portrait, ca. 187- | Library of Congress
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Julia Ward Howe, half-length portrait, seated, facing left was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, poet, and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".Mme. BreshkovskyMartina G. Kramers, profile portrait''The Marriage of HRH Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein and HH Prince Aribert of Anhalt at St. Georges Chapel, Windsor, on July 6, 1891; The Lady Elizabeth Meade', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina in Palace Het Loo, in mourning after the death of Prince Hendrik, autumn 1934. 1934Queen Liliuokalani in Washington DC, 1898Countess PaninAuthor and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, circa 1870Frances E. Willard (1839ÄöÑàöëàö¬®1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and woman's suffragist. She helped organize in 1874 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and served as its second president from 1879-1898. In this photo Frances Willard wears the white bow of the Temperance Union.Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American Humanist, Novelist, writer of Short Stories, Poetry and Nonfiction, and a lecturer for Social Reform, Seated Portrait, Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1900Mrs. EldridgeElsevier photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina photo exile England. 1940Mrs. Hedvig Nylander. f. von post. EPSON scanner imageMrs. G. BostwickFEDERICA MONTSENY (1905-1994) - PRIMERA MINISTRA DEL GOBIERNO EN ESPAÑA Y EUROPA OCCIDENTAL. Location: FUNDACION PABLO IGLESIAS. MADRID. SPAIN.Elizabeth LYNN LINTON, 1822-98, authorTZU-HSI, aka HSIAO-CH'IN &c, generally known as 'the dowager empress' : Manchu ruler who resisted reform, European influences etc, supported the Boxer rising. Date: 1835 - 1908ANNIE BESANT in 1921, at age 74 Date: 1847 - 1933Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, 1793-1880, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left | Library of CongressMrs. Stephen A. DouglasMrs. Coffin Van Renssalaer04/30/1911. Ricarda Berguiza Killed by Throwing Herself Off a Balcony Into the Street. On Cardenal Cisneros Street in Madrid.Portrait, Thomas Hubbard, by Copley, at Harvard , Portrait paintings, Hubbard, Thomas, 1702-1773. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives CollectionPortrait, Thomas Hubbard, by Copley, at Harvard , Portrait paintings, Hubbard, Thomas, 1702-1773. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives CollectionLouisa May Alcott, ca. 1870-75, in a photo portrait by George Kendall Warren of Boston, at around age 40. Alcott, was the author of the classic 1868 novel, 'Little Women'. Her father was a somewhat unstable transcendentalist educator. Louisa occasionally associated with his friends, literary giants, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, and Julia Ward Howe. 19th century albumen photograph with digital color (BSIC_2019_12_1)France: George Sand (1804 - 1876), portrait by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, 1820 - 1910), 1864Charlotte Knollys - Elizabeth Charlotte Knollys (c. 1835 24 April 1930) Lady of the Bedchamber, and the first woman private secretary, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom. Charlotte was a constant companion of the Queen. Date: 1907Indianapolis, Indiana: c. 1914 Portarit of Sarah Breedlove, who became known as C.J. Walker. She established a hair care products business for black women and became the first self-made female American millionaire.Clemencia Arango, (1860-1920), 1920s. Artist: UnknownMr. Rintoul, Editor "Spectator". Published in the magazine "Camera Work", 1912, XXXVII. Collection of JuhlEleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, American HumanitarianCatherine Breshkovsky (1844 - 1934) was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement, a Narodnik, and later one of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. She has been described as Russia's first female political prisoner
Photograph of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. Dated 19th CenturyAfrican American woman, portrait, African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris ExpositionThe Young Princess later Queen 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 IIQueen Victoria's pictures. Queen Victoria in mourning.Prince Adalbert, photo: àetrlich geschutrtMrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, 1856-194012/20/1933. Close-up of actress Leocadia Alba.1800S 1870S Portrait Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910 British Nurse Founder Of Modern Nursing During Crimean War Painting By Chappel 1872Mrs. Warren Logan. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American authorsQueen Victoria(1819-1901), seated at her desk in the 1890s, with a picture of her deceased husband Prince Albert by her side. Date: c. 1890s.Ilse Koch (1906 - 1967) Nazi war criminal who was an overseer at Nazi concentration camps run by her husband, commandant Karl-Otto Koch. Working at Buchenwald (1937-1941) and Majdanek (1941-1943), Koch became infamous for her sadistic, brutal treatment of prisoners. In 1947, she became one of the first prominent Nazis tried by the U.S. military.RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina at the age of 13, Friday 6 April 1894. April 6, 1894Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movementSAROJINI NAIDU (NEE CHATTOPADHYAY) Indian poet and reformer. First woman president of the National Congress. Date: 1879 - 1949NADEZHDA KONSTANTINOVNA KRUPSKAYA Russian Revolutionary. Aided Lenin in revolutionary program St Petersburg. They married in 1898. Date: 1869 - 1939