
Actress Valeska Suratt, ca. 1916

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“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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Underwood & Underwood :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, ca. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: “William Fox presents Valeska Suratt in photo plays supreme released through Fox Film Corporation”. /
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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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