25 Vintage Photos Of Women In The Early 1900s That Look Better Than Anything On Instagram Today
I don’t know what it is about old photos, but every time I see a vintage portrait, I’m convinced those women invented being effortlessly cool. No ring light, no filters, just attitude and lace. And somehow, even these vintage photos look better than half my camera roll.
There’s something timeless about the confidence they carry, posing in gowns, lounging in gardens, or just giving face to a mirror like it’s a Vogue cover shoot. It makes you wonder what they were thinking, or who they thought they’d grow up to be.
1. “Camera Work: Portrait (Miss N.)”
2. “Alice And Her Friends In The Darned Club”
3. “Woman, Half-Length Portrait”
4. “Barbara Stanwyck, Ziegfeld Girl”
5. “A Nineteenth-Century Selfie By Alice Austen”
6. “Gertrude Tate, Alice’s Life Partner, By Alice Austen”
7. “Untitled”
8. “The Bubble”
9. “Ann Pennington, 1920, Vanity Fair”
10. “Camera Work: Portrait – Miss De C”
11. “Mary Pickford-Ziegfeld”
12. “Camera Work: Marcella”
13. “Lillian And Dorothy Gish”
14. “Untitled”
15. “Camera Work: Behind The Scenes”
16. “Mrs. W.g. Loew”
17. “Jeune Fille”
18. “To A Greek Girl”
19. “Letitia Felix At Table”
20. “Blindman’s Buff”
21. “Gertrude Käsebier At Crecy En Brie, France”
22. “The Misses Gerson”
23. “Fairbanks Twins”
24. “Valentine De Saint-Point Photographed By Alphonse Mucha”
25. “The Peacock Feather”
