Soprano Mary Garden as Salomé in Richard Strauss’s opera at the
Manhattan Opera House in 1909.
Tag: unknown photographer
Jane Cowl as Cleopatra in “Antony and Cleopatra”, 1924 / src: Museum of the city of New York
English balloon for locating Boer positions, Boer War, South Africa, 1901
James Garner and Audrey Hepburn clowning on the set of The Children’s Hour (William Wyler, 1961) / source: Fotogramas
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Mae West as Catherine II in “Catherine Was Great”, 1944 / src: Museum of the city of New York
Lester Horton in his 1929 work Pueblo Eagle Dance Nº 5 / src: NYC Dance Stuff
“Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp.” Quoted from source.
Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt as Zena, the temptress, in the 1917 silent drama film
The New York Peacock (Fox Films). /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Stage, silent era actress and vamp Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek, 1917 (Fox Film publicity photograph) /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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