
Teddy Piaz :: Josephine Baker aka “Black Venus,” "Black Pearl,”“Creole Goddess,” as well as “La Baker”, 1932 (L’Etoile Filante, Casino de Paris, Pierre Humbourg) / src: h.prints
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images that haunt us

Pierre-Louis Pierson :: The Countess of Castiglione, 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

Eleanor G, or Eleanor Gutöhrlein, one of the Hungarian twins, known as The Sisters G
photographed whilst in America, photographer unknown, ca. 1932 / src: intriguing-people
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Karla G, or Karla Gutöhrlein, one of the Hungarian twins, known as The Sisters G
photographed whilst in America, photographer unknown, ca. 1932 / src: intriguing-people
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Sandra Lousada :: British Writer Richard Hughes (Richard Arthur Warren Hughes), 1961, gelatin silver print. / src: NPG

Philip Edward Morrell :: Lady Ottoline Morrell,
late 1924. Vintage snapshot print. / src: NPG

Bassano Ltd :: Lillah McCarthy, December 1907. Whole-plate glass negative. / src: NPG
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