Glenn Gould and Herbert von Karajan
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| Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (left) and Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan during a rehearsal with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1957?) |
Soldier Reading Letter 1864
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| Fort Brady, Virginia : Three officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. |
E. Uhlenhuth 1890
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| Prince Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Ernst Ludwig of Hesse (future Grand Duke of Hesse) and Prince George of Wales (future King George V of the United Kingdom). |
Alphonse Mucha 1919
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| Alphonse Mucha, world renowned for his Art Nouveau graphics, used photographs of models for much of his reference material. But sometimes the photographs themselves were beautiful and had that Mucha look about them—such as this inspirational 1919 image he used as a study for a bank note design. |
Queen Maria of Romania
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| Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875–18 July 1938) was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania. |
Zitkala-Sa by Gertrude Käsebier
Zitkala-Sa was a beautiful Yankton Sioux woman of Native American & white mixed ancestry.
She was well educated and went on to become an accomplished author, musician, composer
and later went on to work for the reform of Indian policies in the United States.
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OTMA : The daughters of Tsar Nicholas II
OTMA was an acronym sometimes used by the four daughters of Russian emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna as a group nickname for themselves, built from the first letter of each girl's name in the order of their births: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia.
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