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[Lillian Russell, 1861-1922, bust portrait, right profile, in The Princess Nicotine"]" – Vintage Photo Print

[Lillian Russell, 1861-1922, bust portrait, right profile, in The Princess Nicotine"]" — historic photograph
[Lillian Russell, 1861-1922, bust portrait, right profile, in The Princess Nicotine"]". Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Lillian Russell is shown in right profile in this portrait, made for the stage piece *The Princess Nicotine*. Russell (1861–1922) was one of the most celebrated American musical comedy and light opera performers of the 1880s and 1890s, and her fame made her a frequent subject for studio portraits. This print, dated to about 1893 and credited to the New York studio of Schloss, shows how such photographs served as publicity, carrying an actress's image to audiences who had never seen her perform.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1893.
SubjectsPhoto by Schloss, N.Y.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Theater--Plays--The P- N-; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,020 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134879

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