The Mexican landowner and his family by Carl Nebel 1834.
El Hacendero et son majordome, by Carl Nebel 1834
Category: Genre
Mexican Rancheros wearing sombreros by Carl Nebel.
The costume depicted here is not exclusively that of the rancheros; every man in town, dress like this when they have to ride a horse or go for a long ride.
Jean Patou Mannequins 1925
Jean Patou Mannequins 1925. Jean Patou, 1880-1936, was a French couturier, costume designer. In 1912 he went to Paris and opened a small tailor-fashion atelier Maison Parry. His collection corresponded to… Read More
Blanche Sweet. American film actress in 1925
Blanche Sweet. American Actress. Silent movie star. Blanche Sweet 1896-1986 was an American film actress whose career in the early days of silent films had already peaked. 1909 began her film… Read More
India, myth and legend. Tales from Mahabharata.
India. Epic Mahabharata. Indian myth and legend: with illustrations by Warwick Goble.
Actress Fritzi Massary in “Die Teresina”
Actress Fritzi Massary in “Die Teresina”.* Fritzi Massary (Friederika Masaryk, 1882-1969) was an Austrian singer and actress. She grew up in Vienna as the oldest of three daughters of a… Read More
Hat fashion by Cora Marson 1925
Hat fashion by Cora Marson 1925. Art deco period.
The Prague actress Bronislava Livia 1925
The now forgotten star of Czech silent film Bronislava Livia was born Bronislava Mauerová (or Maurerová) on 18 November 1901 in Nagasaki, Japan.
James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton, 4th Earl of Arran.
James Hamilton was a Scottish nobleman, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton and 4th Earl of Arran, son of John Hamilton and Margaret Lyon.
Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, née Mary Sidney.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) was a scholar noble English writer in Elizabethan time and the center of an artist circle.