Soprano Mary Garden as Salomé in Richard Strauss’s opera at the
Manhattan Opera House in 1909.
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James Wallace Pondelicek :: The Sword. “Mlle. Theo Hewes, assisted by M. Symanski, in a picturesque Oriental dance developed from an old Japanese legend”. Published in Shadowland. January 1923 issue.
/ src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section
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Jazz age icon and civil rights activist Josephine Baker was born 112 years ago today on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. She is pictured here during her 1951 US tour at the Strand Theater in New York. [The Life Picture Collection / Getty Images] / via
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Flores La Due performing fancy rope trick at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, ca.1912 / source: Twitter
Peggy O’Neil, Reginald Mason, and Christine Norman in Peg O’ My Heart, 1914. / source:
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Alexandra Danilova in “Giselle” in London, 1930′s / unknown photographer / src:
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Emil Otto Hoppé :: Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird in ‘L’Oiseau de Feu’, London, England, 1911 / src: E.O. Hoppé
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Ninette de Valois (centre back) as Cupidon in a series of divertissements entitled Fanatics of Pleasure with Lydia Lopokova and Léonide Massine (centre) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1922. Photographer unknown. / source: Royal Ballet School
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