Tag: 1910s

Dora Woolard, 1913

Dora Woolard. The 14 April, 1913 issue of The San Francisco Call carried an item on a vaudeville show, “At the Empress Theater this week are the Diving Girls, Dora Woolard and Laura Murray, two charming swimers, assisted by Mme. Barlo, oldest lady swimmer” | src gt_hawk63 on Flickr

Six Diving Nymphs, 1915

Six Diving Nymphs. Performers in Charles T. Earl’s aquatic vaudeville act. The 17 Oct., 1915 issue of the New York Clipper commented on the act’s Saturday night, 10 October performance at Dale’s Theater, 116th street; “Mr. Earl has a classy looking half dozen girls in his act and each is a graceful performer, besides showing up well in abbreviated different colored union suits.” | src gt_hawk63 on Flickr

Hist! Said Kate the Queen

Emma Barton :: «Hist! Said Kate the Queen». Published in The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LIV, 1417, p. 531 (November 27th, 1911). | src Musée Nicéphore Niépce
Emma Barton :: «Hist!» Said Kate the Queen.─ «Pippa Passes», Browning. From the London Salon of Photography.
Published in The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LIV, 1417, p. 531 (November 27th, 1911). | Musée Nicéphore Niépce

Bajadéra, 1900–1920

Stredoeurópsky grafik z prelomu 19. – 20. storočia. Bajadéra, 1900–1920. | Central European graphic artist from the turn of the 19th – 20th century. Bajadera, 1900–1920. | src Galéria mesta Bratislavy

Women and Roses, 1900s-1910s

Emma Barton (Mrs. G.A. Barton) :: The Gardener’s Daughter, before or on 1911. (DETAIL)

Far up the porch there grew an Eastern rose,
Gown’d in pure white, that fitted to the shape,
Holding the bush, to fix it back, she stood,
A single steam of all her soft brown hair
Poured on one side. (Tennyson)

Emma Barton (Mrs. G.A. Barton) :: The Gardener’s Daughter. Published in The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LIV, 1398, p. 66 (1911). From The Royal Photographic Society’s Annual Exhibition. | src Musée Nicéphore Niépce
Emma Barton (née Rayson) :: The Soul of the Rose, ca. 1905. Carbon print. The Royal Photographic Society at Science & Media Museum, now V&A

Miss Jessie King, p. 1913

James Craig Annan :: Miss Jessie King. Published in The Amateur Photographer & Photographic News, vol. LVII, 1481, p. 156 (1913). James Craig Annan (1864-1946), Glasgow, Scotland, One-Man Show («The A.P.» Little Gallery, London) | src Musée Nicéphore Niépce