Actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983), date unknown.

Actress Maxine Elliott (1868-1940) dressed in the role of Portia from The Merchant of Venice, 1901.

Photograph of (ill-fated) actress Marie Prevost (1898-1937), 1918.

Mrs. George Jay Gould (née Edith M. Kingdon), 1864-1921.

c. 1903 

Portrait of stage actress Caroline Miskel-Hoyt from 1898. She died later that year in childbirth.  

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Badly damaged negative of actress Miss Madelaine Henriques, c. 1865.

Via the Library of Congress.

A clear version of the image can be seen in this sterograph from the George Eastman House.

Mary (Anderson) de Navarro (1859-1940) as Perdita in the “Winter’s Tale,” 1887.

Via the Library of Congress.

Eliza Phillips as Ida in Lord Byron’s drama “Werner.” Published in London “Feby. 15th 1839 by J. Mitchell, 33 New Bond St.”

Courtesy the NYPL.

Stage actress Caroline Miskel Hoyt, c. 1894. She died during childbirth in 1898 at the age of twenty-five. :(

You can read a little more about her in this archived article from The Atlantic.

Via the Library of Congress.

Actress Margaret Anglin (1876-1958) in a living room, 1903.

From the Library of Congress.

Portrait of actress Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), c. 1882.

From the Library of Congress.

Actress Elsie Leslie (1881-1966) in costume as Lydia Languish in Richard Sheridan’s play The Rivals, 1899. Photograph by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.

From the Library of Congress.

Actresses Lillian (1893-1993) and Dorothy (1898-1968) Gish. Date unknown.

From the Library of Congress.

The incredible corseted figure of actress Bianca Lyons, 1902.

From the Library of Congress.

Actress Lillian Russell (1861-1922) as the Tzigane (fortune teller), 1895.

From the Library of Congress.