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
Blanche Sweet. American film actress in 1925
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India, myth and legend. Tales from Mahabharata.
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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
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The Prague actress Bronislava Livia 1925
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James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton, 4th Earl of Arran.
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Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, née Mary Sidney.
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James, Duke of Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Cambridge in 1649.
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William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke by Sir Anthony van Dyck.
Wilton House Pictures. William, third Earl of Pembroke, eldest son of Henry, second Earl, by his third wife, the famous Mary Sidney, was born at Wilton on the 8th April, 1580.
Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, involved in a famous scandal.
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