Actress Valeska Suratt, ca. 1916

Underwood & Underwood :: Waist-up publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a jeweled headdress, ca. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: ‘William Fox presents Valeska Suratt in photo plays supreme released through Fox Film Corp. | src Wisconsin Historical Society

Valeska Suratt, 1911

Apeda Studio :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt for the 1911 Broadway production The Red Rose in which Suratt played Lola, a Parisian artist’s model who falls in love with an American student. Original caption: “Valeska Suratt in The Red Rose, a new musical comedy by Harry B. and Robert B. Smith, music by Robert Hood Bowers, direction of Lee Harrison. Garrick Theater, May 1.” | src Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research 

Antique and original

gelatin silver photograph of stage and silent screen vamp Valeska Suratt notated on the verso: Huntington Beach –
August 1915 . Suratt was one of the first women in show business to
control every aspect of her visual presentation and representation and
she built her brand around being a vampy sexual provocateur. A rare
images of Suratt which comes from her personal scrapbooks. / src: eBay