#old photography

england, anonymous photographer.instant kodak nº 2, c. 1890.

Pauline Frederick (1883-1938) as Potiphar’s wife in Joseph and His Brethren (1910)

Alexander Moissi (1879-1935)  as the jester in King Lear (?)

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) as Hamlet (1899-1900)

Elsie Wright (1901-1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907-1986) - The Cottingley Fairies (1917)

Isadora Duncan (1878 – 1927) as the first fairy in A Midsummer night’s Dream (1896)

Leonid Sobinov (1872-1934) as Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s opera “Eugene Onegin” (1899)  

Matheson Lang (1879-1948) as Hamlet (1914)

Jean Simmons (1929-2010) as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Jacqueline Roque (1927-1986) and Lump (1956-1973) - by David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018)

Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) in Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

Olive Thomas (1894-1920) - between 1915 and 1920

Christine Silver (1884-1960) - by Bassano Ltd (1917)

Olive Thomas (1894-1920)

the manhattan bridge being constructed

Scion of the woods

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Woman in a shoe factory. (Source/Purchase if you like: Fine Daguerreotypes & Photography)

“At the window” (Source/Purchase if you like: Fine Daguerreotypes & Photography)