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Vintage Portraits of Women

Classic black-and-white portraits of women in historical attire, featuring elegant hairstyles and soft lighting, capturing a vintage aesthetic.

Mrs. Gordon Knox Bell
Mrs. Gordon Knox Bell
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Helen Keller To Visit Here - Helen Keller, 67, listed as one of the outstanding 12 American leaders of the century, will reach Australia on March 29.Miss Keller, who lost her signs, speech and hearing at the ago of two, will conduct a lecture tour.She "listens" with her fingers on the throat of the speaker and a finger on the lips.Miss Keller, who has lifted the spirits of millions of unfortunates by her triumph over her own difficulties, wants to meet those afflicted by loss of speech, hearing and sight in every Australian city. Travel by air - She and her companion-secretary, Miss Polly Thom-son, will travel everywhere by air during the six months they will spend in Australia and New Zealand. February 7, 1948.Mrs. Horatio G. WinslowLady ArranWilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria: 1880-1962) Queen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890-1948. Portrait photo of the young Queen Wilhelmina. Dutch Royal FamilyPortrait recording Hilde BöhmeQueen Mary. December 20, 1948.Mrs. Pankhurst As Conservative *****.A new portrait of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst ***** famous suffragist leader, who last night ***** unanimously adopted as prospective Conservative *****. May 26, 1947.Engraving from a photograph of Empress Maria Feodorovna, later Dowager Tsaritsa, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928), wife of Tsar Alexander III, sister of Queen Alexandra and mother of Tsar Nicholas II. The dress Maria Feodorovna is wearing in this photo survives to this day. Made by the couturier Worth of Paris in maroon velvet with a carnation pattern embroidered in shades of gold, it was included in an exhibition of nineteenth-century costume in the State Hermitage in 1993. Historic photo, Rosa Luxemburg, co-founder and chairperson of the German communist partyHelen F. MearsFrances Cleveland (1864-1947), First Lady of the United States 1886-89 and 1893-97, as Wife of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, photograph by George Prince, 1886Woman; inscribed 'Mrs H Nathan' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraitsHER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIA ALEXANDROWNA OF RUSSIA, ENGRAVING 1873African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.Mrs. Cynthia AldenDaisy Bates, at the time of her arrival in Australia in 1884. February 24, 1936.Zelie de Lussan (1861-1949), American mezzo-soprano, 1893.Artist: W&D DowneyMrs. Rosa D. Bowser. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American authorsAfrican American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.Mr. Munro, Secy for ScotlandEleonora duse, 1908Queen Victoria's pictures. Queen Victoria in chest image with uniform. No. 13 MirrorMARY BAKER EDDY Founder of Christian Science. Date: 1821 - 1910Mrs. Joseph Conrad. October 20, 1935.Annette Abbott AdamsPortrait of Charles Chaplin's mother.Jane Addams. American social reformer and feminist born in Cedarville, Illinois, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.RIOS , BLANCA DE LOS. ESCRITORA ESPAÑOLA . SEVILLA 1862 - 1956.Ida Tarbell, half-length portrait, facing front, circa 1925. Ida Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer.African American woman, half-length portrait, facing right African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.Susan B. Anthony 1892. Frances Benjamin Johnston.Miss Charles, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.Germany/Austria: Klara Hitler (1860 - 1907), mother of Adolf Hitler, c. 1875'Mrs. Annie Besant', c1910, (1912). Artist: Frank Arthur Swaine.ANNA JUDIC French singer, 'queen of operetta', especially associated with the works of Offenbach : photo about 1875. Date: 1850 - 1910Helena Petrovna Blavatsky(1831-1891). Russian mystic and writer, circa 1889. Date: c. 1899(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American humanitarian. Chairman UN Human Rights Commission 1947-1951 and US representative at General Assembly 1946. Wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Photograph.Bessie FreidmanADA ELLEN BAYLY writer, under the nom-de-plume of EDNA LYALL Date: 1857 -1903Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist. Award Nobel prize for physics jointly with her husband, Pierre, and Henri Becquerel for work on radioactivity (1903) and alone for chemistry in 1911 for isolation of pure radium.American composer and pianist Amy Beach (1867-1944)A. NazimovaSusan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 1890. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American social reformers and women's rights activists, seated portrait, C.A. Edmonston, 189103/02/1911. Petra Miguel Valle, Killed by the biplane at the Hippodrome.Edith Cavell. November 05, 1948.Mrs. Lena Mason. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American authorsMrs. Rosetta D. Sprague. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American authors, Sprague, Rosetta Douglass