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Belle Epoque Artiste Myriel in Seductive Mood by Reutlinger, circa 1905 by...
19.00 USDLovely seductive image of artiste Myriel. We have no bio on this lovely Belle Epoque performer. We find her most often in maenad-type images, playing cymbals, or holding aloft the thyrsus of...
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Mature German Nude, Living Marble Statue, circa 1910 by redpoulaine
29.00 USDLebender Marmor, or Living Marble. One of a very popular postcard series in which the models, often in classical costume, were posed and made up to resemble marble statues. This one is a real...
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Belle Epoque Actress, Olive Haygate, in "Orientale" Trappings,...
16.00 USDAs far as we can tell, Miss Olive Haygate was an English actress whose home, in the late 1890s, was London. Nevertheless, we don't run across images of her by British photographers, so perhaps...
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Illusionist, Miss Aérogyne, circa 1905/10 by redpoulaine
22.00 USD"Pigeon vole!Aérogyne Elle ment avec son corpsMieux que l'esprit n'imagineLes mensongesdu decor." Jean CocteauMiss Aérogyne, La Femme Volante, or "the Flying Woman"From her costume, and stage...
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Toulouse-Lautrec's Model, Marcelle Lender, by Reutlinger, circa 1900 by...
14.00 USDMarcelle Lender was dancing professionally by 16, and within a few years her flame-red hair was setting Paris, and then all of Europe, ablaze. She was immortalized by the famous French post...
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Male Bellydancer, circa 1940-1945 by redpoulaine
19.00 USDWe love the composition of this strange little RPPC. If it was just a snapshot of a man dancing in a brassiere, it might still be interesting, or not, depending on the context. After all,...
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Milk Maid, Cabinet Card by Herr Mahlknecht of Vienna, circa 1890s by redpoulaine
33.00 USDIn the 1870s, when Vienna was still a jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian empire, There was a Herr Mahlknecht, well known as a theatrical portraitist (by which we mean he took pictures...
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Mysterious Lady in a Golden Turban by Corbella, circa 1920s by redpoulaine
14.00 USDTito Corbella (1885-1966) has to be one of our favorite Italian illustrators of glamor and couples romance postcards. One reason for this, is that he designed a large number of cards after...
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Mysterious Lady in a Blue Turban by Corbella, circa 1920s by redpoulaine
14.00 USDTito Corbella (1885-1966) has to be one of our favorite Italian illustrators of glamor and couples romance postcards. One reason for this, is that he designed a large number of cards after...
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Brunhild, Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen, circa 1925 by Ross Verlag. by...
19.00 USDWe found a small cache of 1920's Ross Verlag postcards depicting scenes from Fritz Lang's German Expressionist film masterpiece "Die Nibelungen" and so we've created a temporary section to...
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Lilian Harvey with a Very Cute Friend, by Ross Verlag, circa 1929 by redpoulaine
18.00 USDWelcome to "Idols of the 1920s," where we hope to provide a special, cozy place for those of you who long to linger among the stars of the early silver screen, the hoofers and songbirds of...
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Silent Film Star, Vilma Banky, Requests your Handkercief, circa 1920s by Ross...
17.00 USDWelcome to "Idols of the 1920s," where we hope to provide a special, cozy place for those of you who long to linger among the stars of the early silver screen, the hoofers and songbirds of...
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Six Maidens Dancing. French RPPC circa 1910s by redpoulaine
22.00 USDJust so charming. Six young ladies in costume for a theatrical production, and beautifully posed for this RPPC (Real Photo Post Card). RPPCs are postcard images produced from local studio, or...
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The Queen and Her Attendants, French RPPC circa 1910s by redpoulaine
19.00 USDLovely theatrical costume RPPC of a queen and her attendants. RPPCs (Real Photo Post Cards) are postcard images produced from local studio, or even amateur "home," photographer's negatives in...
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Belle Epoque Dancer Mlle. Boutouyrie, French Postcard, circa 1905 by redpoulaine
12.00 USDLovely postcard print (circa 1905) of what was a photograph of ballet dancer Mlle. Boutouyrie in costume for a performance at the Opéra de Paris, probably circa 1890s. Mlle. Boutouyrie was a...
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Lya Mara, Dancer, Silent Movie Star, Dressed to the Nines, by Ross Verlag,...
17.00 USDWelcome to "Idols of the 1920s," where we hope to provide a special, cozy place for those of you who long to linger among the stars of the early silver screen, the hoofers and songbirds of...
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Lucy Doraine, Hungarian Silent Film Vamp, Queen of all She Surveys, by Ross...
18.00 USDWelcome to "Idols of the 1920s," where we hope to provide a special, cozy place for those of you who long to linger among the stars of the early silver screen, the hoofers and songbirds of...
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Bessie Love, Silent Film Star, circa 1920s, by Cinemagazine Editions, Paris...
12.00 USDSweet Bessie Love (1892-1986) was a popular film star of the silents and the early talkies. She was born Juanita Horton in Midland Texas. Her dad, a chiropractor, moved the family further...
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The Great Garbo, Ross Verlag, circa 1928 by redpoulaine
19.00 USDWelcome to "Idols of the 1920s," where we hope to provide a special, cozy place for those of you who long to linger among the stars of the early silver screen, the hoofers and songbirds of...
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Fancy Ladies' Stockings circa 1910, by cliche Austin by redpoulaine
19.00 USDWhat a lovely opportunity to have a look at the stockings that were all the rage circa 1910! Probably a bit risque for the time, this postcard was out of the popular series Silhouettes...
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