Illustrations of ancient Mexican feather head-dresses and of the mode of wearing them taken from native Manuscripts.
Mexican feather head-dresses and the mode of wearing them.
Category: America
Sarah Baro Bolcher. An African Princess in Topsfield.
The princess, who gave her name as Sarah Baro Colcher, was given to Captain Dodge who brought her home to his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Dodge Conant, in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA.
Native Californian clothing at the end of the 18th century.
The engravings depicting Californian native people, taken from the Encyclopedia of Travels by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, a five-volume work published in Paris in 1795-1796.
Landing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Historical travelogue.
Landing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the beginning of the 19th century. Historical travelogue by Emeric Essex Vidal and Rudolph Ackermann.
THE story of Catalina de Erauso.
Catalina de Erauso alias Francisco Loyola (* 1592 in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain; † 1650 in Cuitlaxtla, New Spain, today Mexico) was a Basque noblewoman who lived as a man for… Read More
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates, 18th century.
A BRACE OF WOMEN PIRATES. WOMEN WHO POSED AS MEN. THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according… Read More
Glimpses of Gotham and city characters.
Glimpses of Gotham and city characters. Chapter: Men and women who deal in fancy costumes. The business of letting out costumes—and that reminds me that the last one I tried… Read More
Mrs. Condé Nast, Clarisse Coudert, fashion designer, 1917.
Mrs. Condé Nast wearing one of the famous Fortuny tea gowns. This one has no tunic but is finely pleated, in the Fortuny manner, and falls in long lines, closely… Read More
Chief Dakota, Mandan squaw costumes
Chief Dakota, Mandan squaw costumes
Indigenous of Chapultepec. Around Mexico City 1840.
Mexique No.15, AMÉRIQUE INDIEN DE CHAPULTEPEC (Environs de Mexico). Musée cosmopolite No. 249.
