
Rita Martin :: Silent film actress Gina Palerme portrait, mid 1910′s. Published by J. Beagles & Co. Bromide postcard print. / src: National Portrait Gallery
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Rita Martin :: Silent film actress Gina Palerme portrait, mid 1910′s. Published by J. Beagles & Co. Bromide postcard print. / src: National Portrait Gallery

Frances Benjamin Johnston :: [Group of well-dressed people on dock during yacht race, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.], cianotype, 1905 / source: L of Congress
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Unidentified photographer (Russian ?) :: Balloon. “Andrew Pilstrema” in flight, 1898. / src: Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow via luminous-lint

Silent era actress Nita Naldi, born Mary Dooley (1894-1961),
usually cast in the role of the femme fatale / vamp. / via

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
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Emil Otto Hoppé :: Lady Hazel Lavery, artist and socialite, wife of Sir John Lavery, Ireland, ca. 1914
/ src: e.o.hoppe.state.collection
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Leslie Jones ::
The man that squaled on Gerald Chapman and sent him to the gallows. His name is ‘Shean.’, ca. 1925 [Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.]. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
via ohwiewunderbar / original source: leslie.jones.photography
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Two members of the Bertram Mills Circus walk head-to-head at Hammersmith Broadway in London, 1953. / src: retro-vintage-photography

Claudette Colbert in “Cleopatra” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934). Cinematographer: Victor Milner. / src: retro-vintage-photography