American madam Belle Brezing, ca. 1895.
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Alfred Cheney Johnston, Woman with camera, ca. 1920.
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William Downey, Lillie Langtry, August 1885.
Source: National Archives UK
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Margaret Bourke-White, An aged and abandoned Muslim couple and their grand children sitting by the roadside on this arduous journey on their way to Pakistan, 1947.
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E.O. Hoppe, Vita Sackville-West, 1916.
Constant Puyo, ca. 1900.
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) at the age of four, 1865.
Source: National Library of Norway
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C.H. Graves, The so-called “Lily feet” (right) contrasted with the natural feet of Chinese women in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, ca. 1902.
Source: Library of Congress
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