Mme. Sembrich [no date recorded on caption card]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows Polish soprano opera singer Marcella Sembrich (1858-1935) who was born Prakseda Marcelina Kocha?ska. She performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the Royal Opera House in London. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

#MarcellaSembrich #Opera #Photograph #Formalattire #thcentury #MmeSembrich #OperaSinger #Sembrich #Portrait #MetropolitanOpera #glassnegatives #news #photography #Kochaska
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014687965/

Meyer London [no date recorded on caption card]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

#MeyerLondon #Portrait #Formalattire #Photograph #thcentury #BlackandWhite #BainNewsService #glassnegatives #newsphotography #Meyer
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014687387/

Trousers dress from Paris 1914 Feb. 14.

1 photographic print. | Woman modelling trouser dress of the Maison Bernard.

Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with an estimated city population of 2,048,472 in an area of 105.4 km2 (40.7 sq mi), and a metropolitan population of 13,171,056 as of January 2025. Located on the river Seine in the centre of the Île-de-France region, it is the largest metropolitan area and fourth-most populous city in the European Union (EU). Nicknamed the City of Light, partly because of its role in the Age of Enlightenment, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy since the 17th century.

#Trousers #dress #Paris #Photograph #Fashion #thcentury #MaisonBernard #Woman #EarlythCentury #news #photography
https://www.loc.gov/item/2002712567/

Paris, France. Rue de la Paix decorated for Theo Roosevelt 1910.

1 photographic print.

The Rue de la Paix is a fashionable shopping street in the centre of Paris. Located in the 2nd arrondissement, it runs north from the Place Vendôme and ends at the Opéra Garnier.

#Paris #Photograph #StreetScene #AmericanInfluence #thCentury #RuedelaPaix #TheoRoosevelt #EarlythCentury #AmericanFlags #Roosevelt #France #Street #American #City #townlife #Commercialstreets #Flags #Lamposts #Theodore #Travel #news #photography
https://www.loc.gov/item/2010645490/

Paula Hillburn Blackton [ca. 1910]

1 photographic print. | Full lgth., facing right; about to serve tennis ball.

#Tennis #Photography #BlackandWhite #thCentury #Racket #PaulaHillburnBlackton #ForehandSwing #EarlythCentury #Nostalgic #photograph #portrait #clothing #news #Paula
https://www.loc.gov/item/2002715823/

Francisco de la Barra, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front [1911(?)]

1 photographic print.

#FranciscodelaBarra #Portrait #photograph #thcentury #FormalAttire #Mustache #Glasses #photographicprint #FranciscoLen #Barra #FranciscoLdela #news #photography
https://www.loc.gov/item/98505835/

Delores Del Rio [19--?]

1 photographic print. | Head and shoulders, facing right.

#DeloresDelRio #Photographicprint #Portrait #thcentury #Vintage #Blackandwhiteportrait #Longhair #Satingarment #Earlytomidthcentury #blackandwhite #news #photography #Delores
https://www.loc.gov/item/2002697718/

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, 1867-1944 [no date recorded on caption card]

1 photographic print. | Head and shoulders, facing slightly left.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers of her era to succeed without the benefit of European training, and was known as one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers. As a pianist, she was acclaimed for concerts she gave featuring her own music in the United States and in Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Beach

#Portrait #Photograph #Woman #Pearl #Necklace #AmyBeach #Blackandwhite #LatethCentury #EarlythCentury #thcentury #pearlnecklace #news #photography #Amy #AmyMarcyCheneyBeach #Beach
https://www.loc.gov/item/2004682089/

Chauncey Olcott [no date recorded on caption card]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Chauncey Olcott, born John Chancellor Olcott and often spelled Chauncey Alcott, was an American stage actor, songwriter and singer of Irish descent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauncey_Olcott

#ChaunceyOlcott #Photograph #Historical #thCentury #FormalAttire #WoodenChair #StainedGlass #BainNewsService #Portrait #glassnegatives #news #photography #Chauncey
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014718872/

Clara Bow [no date recorded on caption card]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Bow

#ClaraBow #thcentury #Photograph #Sequined #Vintage #revealingdress #headpiece #earlythcentury #Fashion #Portrait #glassnegatives #news #photography #Clara
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014718978/