Orientale. Anna May Wong

James W. Doolittle :: Orientale. Anna May Wong. The Thief of Bagdad. Motion Picture Classic, May 1924. | src internet archive

Studio Felice Beato, 1860s-1880s

Studio of Felice Beato :: Flower Seller, ca. 1860-1880s. Albumen print – Hand Colored. Mounted on “Star Photo Leaf Album”. | src Holden Luntz Gallery

Studio of Felice Beato :: Four Ladies in a Garden, ca. 1860-1880s. Albumen print – Hand Colored. Mounted on album page. | src Holden Luntz Gallery

Studio of Felice Beato :: Girl Dancing and Two Girls Playing Shamisens, ca. 1860-1880s. Albumen print – Hand Colored. | src Holden Luntz Gallery

Madame Routtand en Almée (?)

Charles Adrien :: [Femme en costume oriental, visage voilé (Madame Routtand en Almée ?)], entre 1907 et 1930. Plaque de verre Autochrome. | src Société française de photographie

Burmese woman with cigar

Philip Adolphe Klier :: Donna birmana con ventaglio e sigaro, Burma, ca. 1880. Albumen print. | src Collezione Molinario

Ida Rubinstein in Shéhérazade

Eugène Druet (1867-1916) :: Ida Rubinstein da ns Shéhérazade, France, 1910. Tirage au gélatino-bromure d’argent. | src Lumière des roses – 16e Livraison

Like an Egyptian, 1910

Sean Sexton :: An actor performs a sinuous Eastern dance whilst wearing the costume of a palace attendant, ca. 1910. (Hulton Archive) | src Getty Images

Hedy Pfundmayr in Shéhérazade

Franz Xaver Setzer :: Dancer Hedy Pfundmayr in Schéhérazade by Maurice Ravel, 1923. (Photo by Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel) | src Getty Images

Elizabeth Delmore by Sasha

Sasha :: Elizabeth Delmore, in a costume full of eastern promise including turban, prepares to play one of the Court Ladies in a production of Omar Khayyam’s poem The Persian Garden, 30th June 1936. (Photo by Sasha / Alexander Stewart) | src Getty Images

Lyda Borelli ~ Salomé

Lyda Borelli in her outfit for her stage version of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. Spanish postcard by Amadeo, Barcelona.| src Truus, Bob & Jan on Flickr

Tortola Valencia, dansa oriental

Imatge de Tórtola Valencia en una dansa oriental [La baiadera. La bayadera. La Bayadère]. Cartell de Krenes (autor), ca. 1919. Thomas and Wylie (Impressor). | src Centre de Documentació · MAE · Institut del Teatre