The Pictures Portrait Gallery: the Women

Last Saturday, EFSP did a post on the British postcard series, the Pictures Portrait Gallery. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, Pictures Ltd. in London published the series as a supplement for their magazine 'Pictures' which from 1920 on was named 'Pictures for the Picturegoer'. Last week, we published 15 portraits of male stars of the silent cinema. Today follows a post with 15 legendary British, American, and (one) French ladies of the silver screen.


Violet Hopson. British postcard in the 'Pictures Portrait Gallery' by Pictures, Ltd, London, no. 36. Photo: Claude Harris, Ltd.


Mary Odette. British postcard in the Pictures Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 49. Photo: Claude Harris.


Queenie Thomas. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery' by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 57.


Betty Compson. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery by Pictures, Ltd, London, no. 66.


Edna Purviance. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 94.


Anita Stewart. British postcard in the Pictures Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 111.


Madge Kennedy. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery, London, by Pictures Ltd., no. 118.


Mabel Normand. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 120.


Alice Joyce. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 125.


Margarita Fisher. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 131.


Marguerite Clark. British postcard in the 'Pictures Portrait Gallery' by Pictures, Ltd, London, no. 132.


Mary Pickford. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery, London, no. 134.


Mary Miles Minter. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery, London, no. 149.


Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 195.


Enid Bennett. British postcard in the Pictures Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 9/190. Sent by mail in Belgium in 1923.


Corinne Griffith. British postcard in the Pictures Portrait Gallery series by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 10/202. Sent by mail in 1931.


Peggy Hyland. British postcard in the 'Pictures' Portrait Gallery by Pictures Ltd., London, no. 11/215.

Check out last week's post The Pictures Portrait Gallery: the Men. And for the (nearly) complete list, visit Our Cinema Postcards.