Sarah Bernhardt 1879

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Anna Held

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Marilyn Monroe

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President JF. Kennedy & Marilyn Monroe

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Queen Marie of Romania

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Dancing Sevillanas - Spain, late 1890s

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Hats from Edwardian era

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Jean Acker 1921

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Jean Acker (October 23, 1893 – August 16, 1978) was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s. She was perhaps best known as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino.

Young Man on Roller Skates 1910

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French soldiers at Paris in 14 July 1917

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The Sisters G by Achille Volpe c.1931

 

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Alain, Nathalie & Anthony Delon

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Life Magazine Cover

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Norma Talmadge

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Norma Talmadge 1920s

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Norma Talmadge (May 26, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.

Lillian and Dorothy Gish by Alfred Cheney Johnston c.1920

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Dorothy Gish 1920s

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Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968) was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.

Alphonse Van Besten

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Alphonse Van Besten

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Alphonse Van Besten

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Alphonse Van Besten

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Two Girls Picking Cornflowers by Alphonse Van Besten c.1912

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Lillian Russell 1890s

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Wedding portrait of Reynaldo Morales and Isabel Hernandez, Orange, California 1930

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is a British American actress and singer in theatre, television and films. Her career has spanned seven decades and earned an unsurpassed number of performance Tony Awards (tied with Julie Harris and Audra McDonald), with five wins.

Dominique Sanda by Helmut Newton 1974

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Dominique Sanda, born 11 March 1951 is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne (née Pichon) and Gérard Varaigne. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow).

Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."

Big man enjoying a cigar and glass of beer in a New York tavern circa 1908

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Scene from Cocteau’s Phedre - Justin Locke

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David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World 1971

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Gladys Cooper by Alexander Bassano 1910

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Mary Pickford in Dorothea Vernon 1924

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Sarah Bernhardt

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Maude Fealy

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See also

Vintage Beauties 1870

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Moppets Charm School by Arthur Rickerby for LIFE Magazine

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Arthur B. Rickerby (1921–1972) was an American photographer whose most famous works are his sports photography, especially his color photography essays, and his photographs of the Kennedy administration. His work is most noted for its realism and pioneering use of the 35 mm camera and the early zoom lens.

Last Prisoners Leave Alcatraz by Leigh Wiener 1963

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Leigh Auston Wiener (August 25, 1929 - May 11, 1993) was an award-winning American photographer and photojournalist. In a career that spanned five decades, he covered hundreds of people and events. His images captured the public and private moments of entertainers, musicians, artists, authors, poets, scientists, sports figures, politicians, industrialists, and heads of state, including every U.S. president from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan and illustrated every sector of industry including farming, steel mills, auto manufacturing, aerospace, medicine, research, early computing and semi-conductor manufacturing.

Le Charmeur d’oiseaux, Paris 1910

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Dovima

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The Boswell Sisters

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The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Martha Boswell (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell (original name Connie) (December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell (May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988), noted for intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation. They attained national prominence in the USA in the 1930s.

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Paris, 1963

Children at a puppet Theatre watching St. George and the Dragon story.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration [2] and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera.

Belle Bilton by Alexander Bassano 1889

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Girls with guns

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Moulin Rouge - Paris 1914

The original Moulin Rouge, photographed by Albert Kahn the year before it burned down - Paris, 1914

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Chinese Woman - 19th Century

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Singing Girls, Hong Kong, China by Benjamin W. Kilburn 1901

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Benjamin West Kilburn (December 10, 1827 – January 15, 1909) was an American photographer and stereoscopic view publisher famous for his landscape images of the nascent American and Canadian state, provincial, and national parks and his visual record of the great migrations at the end of the nineteenth century. Visual historian of immigration and international tourism.

Ghostbuster Abe Lincoln

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An extremely rare photograph of President Abraham Lincoln taken during his brief yet memorable stint as a paranormal investigator and eliminator circa 1864.

Late 1800s, one man band

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Rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan (emerged before Samurai)

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An onna-bugeisha (女武芸者?) was a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many wives, widows, daughters, and rebels answered the call of duty by engaging in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honor in times of war. They also represented a divergence from the traditional "housewife" role of the Japanese woman. They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as female samurai, although this is an oversimplification. Onna bugeisha were very important people in ancient Japan. Significant icons such as Empress Jingu, Tomoe Gozen, Nakano Takeko, and Hōjō Masako were all onna bugeisha who came to have a significant impact on Japan.