Antique Photos of Women Around the World
Published 31 Oct 2017, 16:31 GMT, Updated 16 Nov 2017, 10:52 GMT
An autochrome features women living in an Alpine village.
Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic CreativeA Roma woman in Tirana, Albania, poses wearing traditional garb in this 1928 autochrome by Luigi Pellerano. While this image never ran in National Geographic, the magazine published hundreds of Pellerano’s images through the 1930s.
Photograph by Luigi Pellerano, National GeographicA dancer on Tenerife Island, part of Spain’s Canary Islands, poses in her costume in this July 1929 autochrome by National Geographic staff photographer Wilhelm Tobien.
Photograph by Wilhelm Tobien, National Geographic CreativeA woman in Brittany, France, leans against a stone wall in this early 1923 autochrome by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. This image and the previous one were featured in a 2010 exhibition of National Geographic’s autochromes.
Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic CreativeIn this November 1931 autochrome by Wilhelm Tobien, two women from the Netherlands’ Zeeland province pose with their daughters. Their fan-shaped bonnets are hallmarks of the region’s folk costume.
Photograph by Wilhelm Tobien, National Geographic CreativeA woman in Bucharest, Romania, sits on a bench wearing a red hat and bathing suit in a January 1936 autochrome by Wilhelm Tobien.
Photograph by Wilhelm Tobien, National Geographic CreativeA girl in Lagartera, Spain, poses in traditional costume for an informal portrait in this 1914 autochrome by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. Lagartera is renowned for its centuries-old tradition of elaborate embroidery.
Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic CreativeA woman in Lucerne, Switzerland, works with her spinning wheel in an autocrome taken by Hans Hildenbrand in early 1932.
Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic Creative