Shiny History Gems

Navajo silversmith Bai-De-Schluch-A-Ichin or Be-Ich-Schluck-Ich-In-Et-Tzuzzigi, photographed by George Ben Wittick, 1883

Portrait of Princess Anna of Prussia by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1858

Princess Alexandra of Denmark, c. 1860

Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (1523-1596)

A portrait of a family in Gainesville, Florida, c. 1900

Queen Margherita of Italy, c. 1870s

Gabrielle de Courtiras, Vicomtesse de Saint-Mars (1804-1872) who was a prolific French writer under the pen name Countess Dash Portrait by Charles de Steuben, 1844

Queen Marie of Romania in traditional Romanian clothes, c. 1900s

Portrait of Seneca war chief and diplomat Gaiänt’wakê (or Kaintwakon or Cornplanter) by Frederick Bartoli, 1796

Poet Emily Dickinson, c. 1846-47

Maharani Bamba, Lady Duleep Singh, c. 1864

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Tuscany (1645-1721)

Civil rights activist, abolitionist, educator and author Louisa Matilda Jacobs (1833-1917), 1870

Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress (1585-1618) Portrait by unknown artist

Photograph of an unidentified man with a top hat and hands in pockets, subverting racial hierarchies and stereotypes Photograph taken by Nadar, mid-1800s

Queen Isabella II of Spain, c. 1865

Olive Oatman (1837-1903) who was the first known white woman to have a native tattoo, having lived with the Mohave tribe

Princess Sudhira Devi of Cooch Behar, circa 1910

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, Duchess of Södermanland, c. 1908

Marquise Nabeshima Nagako (1855-1941), a Japanese noblewoman and secretary and chair of the Volunteer Nurses Association of the Japanese Red Cross Society