Dutch costume. Girl of Marken, Holland, 1910. The people of Holland by Nico Jungman.
Dutch costume. Girl of Marken, Holland, 1910.
THE story of Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.
Catalina de Erauso alias Francisco Loyola who became famous as a soldier, was a Basque noblewoman who lived as a man for several decades (“The nun lieutenant”).
Marie Therese Louise Lamballe of Savoy, Princess of Carignan.
Princess Lamballe. This illustrious female was one of the most innocent victims of the Revolution
Matron, maid, citizen. Bourgeois women 17th c.
German baroque fashion in 1644. Matron, maid, citizen.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.
THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.
The latest Paris fashion 1898.
The latest Paris fashion, Belle Epoque. Toilette de Réception. February 1898.
Glimpses of Gotham. Men and women who deal in fancy costumes.
Glimpses of Gotham and city characters. Men and women who deal in fancy costumes. New York, 1881. Actresses Lizzie Kelsey, Pauline Markham, Emily Duncan, Eliza Wetherby, Fanny Louise Buckingham.
Mrs. Condé Nast, Clarisse Coudert, fashion designer, 1917.
Mrs. Condé Nast wearing one of the famous Fortuny tea gowns.
Indonesian Culture. Fabrics and Weapons of the Malays.
Indonesian Culture. Fabrics and Weapons of the Malays. The Malay (Orang Melayu) are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They belong to the Austronesian ethnic groups and speak the Malay… Read More
FAR-A WAY-MOSES. Jewish type. Dragoman.
The above portrait is another illustration of the persistence of the Jewish type.