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| Anna Held, 1899 |
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| Anna Held, 1900 |
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| Anna Held's Eyes, 1898 |
Turn-of-the-century female icons, enjoying their active prime during the final years of Queen Victoria's lifetime.
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| Julis Arthur, 1899 |
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| Julia Arthur, 1899 |
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| Julia Arthur, 1899 |
Their names might still be known to those with some stake (academic or sentimental) in extinct periods of the pop-cultural past. But not to anybody else. These women lived and worked just slightly too early, were in their prime just before the period when idiosyncratic allurements of voice and gesture could be mechanically reproduced and preserved (in facsimile) for posterity.
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| Minnie Maddern Fiske, 1900 |
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| Minne Maddern Fiske, 1898 |
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| Minnie Maddern Fiske, 1909 |
All posters are from the collection at the Library of Congress.
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| Olga Nethersole in Sapho, 1900 |
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| Olga Nethersole in Sapho, 1900 |
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| Olga Nethersole in Sapho, 1900 |