Category: portrait, Porträt, retrato, ritratto, portret, retrat, Bildnis

Marceline Day, 1915-1920

Silent movie era actress Marceline Day, 1910s-1920s. | src eBay
Marceline Day, [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]. Glass negative. Bain News Service (publisher). | src George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

Mileva Roller, 1910s

Dora Philippine Kallmus :: [Mileva Roller (Frau von Alfred Roller) in einem Reformkleid, Wien, um 1910.] Mileva Roller (Mileva Stojsavljevic) in a Reform dress, Vienna, ca. 1910. | src Getty Images

Jewel Carmen, 1918

Albert Witzel :: Jewel Carmen [born Florence Lavina Quick (1897-1984)], 1918. Silver halide photograph. | src eBay
Albert Witzel :: Jewel Carmen [born Florence Lavina Quick (1897-1984)], The Moving Picture World, July 1918. | src internet archive

«All Nature is but Art», 1929

Ismay Taylor :: «All Nature is but Art», 1929. Plate XXIII, from Photograms of the Year 1929. | src eBay
Ismay Taylor :: «All Nature is but Art», 1929. Plate XXIII, from Photograms of the Year 1929. (Full page) | src eBay

Yvonne Valée, 1926

Madame d’Ora :: Portrait of Parisian stage star and winner of the “Most Beautiful Hands” award in 1926, Yvonne Valee (1926). Snipe, agency stamp, date stamp and notations on verso. | src worthpoint

Eyes of Youth by Rosalind Maingot

Rosalind Maingot (née Rosalind Beddome, 1894-1957) :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. From: Photograms of the Year 1945. | src eBay
Rosalind Maingot :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. | src eBay
Rosalind Beddome was born 1894 in Brisbane, Australia.  After a successful career as an actress she studied at the London School of Photography and married surgeon Rodney Maingot. The influences of her previous career can be seen in her theatrically posed, expressive photographs of portraits, figure studies and flowers. In 1932 she was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1933 had a one woman show at the Camera Club. Her work was published in the Sketch between 1933 and 1946. Later she worked alongside her husband as a medical photographer and helped set up the Royal Photographic Society’s Medical group. In 1947 she went on a lecture tour in America where she socialized with American photographers including Mildred Hatry her account of which was published in the RPS Journal Feb. 1948 “A woman photographer visits America”. She died in 1957 in London. quoted from source

Wearing an Egyptian Costume

George Rinhart :: Miss Afton McWilliams, member of the New York Art Colony, who has gained fame with her paintings of Hollywood movie stars, and creations in dance costumes, is shown in an Egyptian costume of her own design. (original caption) | src Getty Images