Pierre-Louis Pierson :: The Countess of Castiglione as
Anne Boleyn, 1867. Virginia Oldoini (Virginia Elisabetta Luisa Carlotta Antonietta Teresa Maria Oldoïni), Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), better known as La Castiglione, was born to an aristocratic family from La Spezia. She was a 19th-century Italian aristocrat who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography. / src: retro-vintage-photography
A
casually beautiful portrait of the young star in a striped art deco
bathing suit, ready for a day at the beach. Just a tremendous Golden Age
of Hollywood artifact that appears to have been published in an issue
of Motion Picture Magazine. The exact year is unknown, but handwritten
text to verso seems to link this to a publicity campaign for a Hepburn
movie that never completed filming, “Three Came Unannounced.” original source: eBay / via gmgallery
Thomas E.
Askew :: Nine African American women (sic), full-length portrait, seated on steps of a building at Atlanta University, Georgia,
1899-1900.
Untitled photo in album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 341.
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