Ione Bright
A minor Broadway actress with a major otherworldly beauty.
Lina Cavalieri
A famous Italian opera singer whose image and hourglass figure could be seen everywhere — from soap packaging to postcards.
Cleo de Merode
A French dancer who won the “Queen of Beauty” award in the first ever “Top Beautiful Women” contest organized by Illustration magazine in 1896.
Maude Adams
An American actress who achieved fame by playing the role of Peter Pen in a Broadway production.
Carolina Otero
Known as “La Belle,” Carolina was a French dancer and singer who was hugely popular among the royalty of many countries.
Maude Fealy
An American stage and silent film actress who also lived through the talking movie age.
Rita Martin
A suffragist and a photographer who also deserved to be photographed as much as possible.
Grand Duchess Olga
The eldest daughter of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, whose whole family was slaughtered by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Lily Elsie
An English actress and singer of the Edwardian era.
Luzon woman of the Philippines
Breathtaking proof of the simple fact that you don’t need a Nikon and Urban Decay to create a masterpiece shot.
Jean Aylwin
A successful comedy actress of the Edwardian era.
Anna Pavlova
A Russian prima ballerina of the renowned Imperial Russian Ballet.
Mary Pickford
“America’s sweetheart” and “the girl with the curls,” she was a Canadian-born film actress and her real name was Gladys Louise Smith.
Valli “Valli” Knust
A musical and silent film actress descending from an old English family.
Gabrielle Ray
Considered one of the most photographed women in the world, she was truly a beauty to be captured.
Anna May Wong
The first Chinese American Hollywood movie star.
Queen Mary of Romania
The last queen of Romania, very popular among her own people and worldwide.
Doris Stocker
An Indian born English actress and music hall artist of the 1900s.
Agnes Ayres
Gypsy girl with mandolin
Esmeralda of the 20th century.