Category: vintage card, vintage postcard, vintage Postkarte, cartolina vintage, tarjeta vintage, carte postale vintage

Pina Menichelli. Italian card

Italian silent era actress, diva and femme fatale Pina Menichelli (1890-1984). Cartolina postale. Ed. G. Vettori – Bologna, b/n, gelatina ai sali d’argento su carta. | src Museo nazionale del cinema

Tora Teje as Salome, 1915

Hofatelier Jaeger :: Tora Teje in Oscar Wilde’s Salome, directed by Gunnar Klintberg, Svenska Teatern, 1915. Swedish postcards by Axel Eliassons Konstförlag, Stockholm, nº 354 to 357. | src Teater Sargasso Sweden

Musidora (French card)

Musidora, 1915, France. Series: Portrait de Stars. French collectors card. L'encyclopédie du Cinéma'. Collection Cinémathèque Française. | src eBay
Musidora, 1915, France. Series: Portrait de Stars. French collectors card. L’encyclopédie du Cinéma’. Collection Cinémathèque Française. | src eBay
Portrait of Musidora (Jeanne Roques) | src Librairie Le Pas Sage
Portrait of Musidora (Jeanne Roques) | src Librairie Le Pas Sage

Maud Allan as Salomé, 1907

Foulsham & Banfield :: Maud Allan as “Salome” dancing during a performance at the Varietes, Paris, 1907. Postcard print, published by Rotary Photographic Co. Ltd. | src Fine Art America

Maud Allan dancing, 1908

Foulsham & Banfield :: Maud Allan dancing to ‘Mendelssohn’s Spring Song’, 1908. Bromide postcard print, published by Rotary Photographic Co. Ltd. | src NPG

Stacia Napierkowska by Sobol

[Ruben] Sobol :: Stacia Napierkowska. French postcard in the Les Vedettes de Cinéma series by A.N. (Alfred Noyer), Paris, nº 50. Photo by [Ruben] Sobol. | src Truus, Bob & Jan on Flickr

Musidora (Le Tréport)

Musidora. French postcard, nº 67. Caption: Le Tréport – Le Repos de la Pêcheuse de Crevettes. (Le Tréport – The Rest of the Shrimp Fisherwoman). Collection: Marlène Pilaete. | src Truus, Bob & Jan on Flickr | more like this

Who is Musidora?

Photographie publicitaire de Musidora revêtue de son collant noir devenu iconique grâce au film Les Vampires de Louis Feuillade, ca. 1915 | Musidora, qui êtes-vous?
Who is Souricette? Musidora with her dog, Lacsalé. French cigarette card by Cigarettes Le Nil, nº 38. Photo by Henri Manuel | src flickr

In this cigarette card […] she is dressed in her famous costume from Les vampires. It’s a typical outfit worn by the thieves operating in hotels. […] In French, those thieves are called ‘souris d’hôtel’. ‘Souricette’ being a kind of diminutive form of ‘souris’, maybe that’s where the publishers got their idea.” Quoted from Flickr