Lot 1486
Great Women of the Stage. Lot of four signed cabinet card photographs featuring the most popular and talented actresses of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Helena Modjeska, in costume, signs an Aimé Dupont card. There is minor fading near the center, otherwise very good to fine condition.
Anna Held, Florenz Ziegfeld's stunningly beautiful wife (known for bathing in milk), signs and inscribes a Schloss of New York card: "Avec les compliments de Anna Held". With the exception of very minor toning, this card is in fine condition.
Agnes Booth has signed a Dupont card, with "Sincerely Yours Agnes Booth". Minor soil to edges, faint pencil ID in margin, else very good to fine.
Louisa Drew, talented onstage and off (she was America's first major female theater manager), appears on a Sarony card dated "May 30, 1869". Inscribed verso "Nothing so conciliatory (?) to young people, as severity!" Small, minor ink smudges near top edge, one skinny 1" abrasion with print loss extends from bottom edge of picture. Very good condition.
Estimated Value $200 - 300.
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