Headdress Collection (page 3)

Music cover, Thinkin about the Wabash, Mae West
Music cover, Thinkin about the Wabash, words by Sammy Cahn and Walter Bullock, music by Jule Styne, sung by Mae West in the Columbia film Tropicana Date: 1943

Young Nun Girl
A portrait oil painting of a young girl wearing a nun's headdress. Date: circa 1930

Bridal dress from Fenwick's
A bridal dress from Fenwick's, New Bond Street, in fancy satin damask with simulated paysanne corselet. Date: circa 1939

Lydia Kyasht, ballet dancer
Lydia Kyasht (1885-1959) was a Russian ballerina and dance teacher. She moved to London in 1908, to be ballerina at the Empire Theatre. Date: 1910

Marie -Louise Derval, actress
Marie-Louise Derval was a French actress, who went on to have a career in silent film. Here she is depicted in a Russian costume she wore when being presented to the Czar. Date: circa 1910

Princess Victoria Louise & Princess Cecile uniform 1913
Front cover showing two German Princesses in Military uniform. (Left) Princess Victoria Louise (1892 - 1980), the only daughter and the last child of German Emperor Wilhelm II

PAPUA NEW GUINEA A tribe meets to discuss the death of their sacred bird, the blue Bird of Paradise Date: 1930s

Victorian girl's clothing 1875
Selection of girl's clothing from 1875. Date: 1875

LITTLE CROW Famous fighting chief. Date: 1905

Canadian Indians in traditional dress taking part in the war. Date: 1916

Delores Del Rio - Mexican actress, dancer and singer
Delores Del Rio (1904-1983) - Mexican actress, dancer and singer. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood

Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, British-born conservationist, fur trapper, writer, disguised as Native American Grey Owl

Group of cross-dressing men, fancy dress, Japan
19th century vintage photograph - group of cross-dressing men, fancy dress, Japan, c.1890 s

Young Druze woman, bride, Holy Land, Lebanon, c. 1880 s
Young Druze woman - a bride, Holy Land, Lebanon, c.1880 s

Chohans, Rajpoot tribe Hindoos. Oude
The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan - published in the 1860s under order of the Viceroy

Shan woman in hat, Burma, India, Myanmar
Vintage 19th century photograph - Shan woman in hat, Burma, India, Myanmar

Women in traditional costume, Copenhagen fish market
Women dressed in traditional costume sell fish in a street market in Copenhagen, Denmark. Date: circa 1930s

Betty Beryl in A E Smiths Revue, All Bluff, now in 20th year of tour. Date: early 20th century

The Vagabond King by W H Post and Brian Hooker, music by Rudolf Friml. First produced by Russell Janney at the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, 19 April 1927

Shirley Kellogg in Razzle Dazzle! - a revue by Albert de Courville, Wal Pink and Basil Macdonald Hastings, with music by Herman Darewski and Manuel Klein

Come Over Here! A new revue by Wilson Mizner and Max Pemberton at the London Opera House, Kingsway Date: circa 1913

British army in India - NCOs of the 79th Highlanders
1860s vintage photograph - British army in India - NCOs of the 79th Highlanders

Orange merchant - woman with a basket of fruit Egypt
Orange merchant - woman with a basket of fruit on her head, Egypt. Vintage 19th century photograph

Young woman or nurse / nanny carrying a baby, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Carib women of Martinique, Antilles, West Indies, 1818
Women of Martinique, Antilles, West Indies, 1818. Carib people in skirts, bandanas. One woman carries a basket on her head

Aztec man and woman of Mexico, 1818
Man and woman of Mexico, 1818. Aztec man, woman and child carrying basket of clothes, bow and stick.Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being

Inhabitants of California, America, 1818. They wear feather headdresses, and the woman wears a grass skirt and carries a basket on a stick

Women of Normandy, France, in a kitchen, 1818. They wear elaborate tall lace headdresses. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of

Man and woman of Hindostan or Hindustan, 1818. The man wears a turban, tunic, sash and harem pants and holds a saber, the woman wears a veil, shawl and dress

Woman waiting for the Saint Cloud stage coach, 1817
Woman waiting for a stage coach. The Saint-Cloud coach meeting, 1817. She wears a bonnet, a spencer jacket and walking dress with parasol

Map of the Americas, circa 1821. Showing Labrador, Canada, the United States, Louisiana, Mexico, Brazil, Amazonia, Paraguay, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

German coats of arms from the late 15th century
Coat of arms of Bernhard Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden from his gravestone in Eichstatt Cathedral A, and coats of arms of the Votter and Langenmantel families from a painting by Hans Holbein

German costumes of the late 15th century. Woman in dress with long hanging sleeves holding a bird, and man in doublet with jagged sleeves and skirts, red hose, feathered hat

Albrecht III, Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, died 1475. In a scarlet cape lined with ermine over a gold suit of armor. From an altar painting in St. Gumbertus church, Ansbach

French breastplate armour and spur worn of the 15th century
French breastplate armour and spur worn by Duke Albrecht III of Bavaria of the 15th century. Panzerjacke, sporn. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

European mens costumes of the mid-15th century
Mens costumes of the mid 15th century. Young man in doublet with long sleeves from a Saxon lineage book, nobleman in costume of the Lower Rhine from a painting in the Van Eyck school

Tournament helmet from the mid-15th century
Tournament helmet with coat of arms on rear from the mid-15th century. From the collection of Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Elderly South African man in elaborate headdress
Elderly South African man (Chief?) in elaborate headdress. Date: circa 1900s

Man in a rather unusual fancy dress costume, probably as United Dairies as U Dees seems to be slang for the company but the bottles on his sleeves give the game away. Date: c.1910

Iris Lockwood in Get a Load of This, London Hippodrome
Iris Lockwood, actress, model and later wife of theatre director and producer Robert Nesbitt, appearing in the London Hippodrome revue Get a Load of This wearing a dress by Norman Hartnell. Date: 1941

Cartoon, Smoking the Calumet (Gladstone and Alabama Claim)
Cartoon, Smoking the Calumet -- a satirical comment on the American governments claim for compensation for the sinking of the CSS Alabama during the American Civil War

The Debs Progress by Molly Bishop
The Debs Progress: No. 1 by Molly Bishop. Invaluable advice to those about to come out - out-dress your rivals at Ascot. A young lady in an flamboyant dress

Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands (Tonga)
Poulaho (Polaho), King of the Friendly Islands (Tonga) at the time of Captain Cooks visit. Date: 1770s

Giovanni Battista Belzoni at Sadlers Wells Theatre
Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and archaeologist, at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, as the Patagonian Samson, wearing a strongmans costume made of fur, and an ostrich feather headdress

Red indian headdress
Young boy wearing a red indian headdress. Date: circa 1915

Varieties of the hennin headdress
Varieties of the late medieval hennin headdress. 1906

Alma Stanley, Victorian actress in Spanish costume. late 19th century

The First Lamas to visit Europe in a taxi
The first Lamas (Tibetan priests) to visit Europe, persuaded by filmographer of the 1922 Everest Expedition, Captain Noel

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