Evening dress, 1909. Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arketektur og Design.

Salome Dancing before Herod, by French painter Gustave Moreau (1876). Hammer Museum.

Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects, by French painter James Tissot (1869). Cincinnati Art Museum.

Day dress, 1909. Fashion Museum of Bath.

Perfume decanter by New England Glass Company, 1866–70. The MET.

Front cover of La Vie Parisienne, 25th May 1929.

Queen Victoria's dress for the opening of the Great Exhibition, 1851. Royal Collection.

First black women to vote in Ettrick, Virginia. These women, left to right, are Eva Conner, Evie Carpenter, Odelle Green, Virginia Mary Branch, Anna Lindsay, Edna Colson, Edwina Wright, Johnella Frazer, and Nannie Nichols. Photographed in 1920.

Armchair, 1868–70. The MET.

Salome Dancing before Herod, by French painter Gustave Moreau (1876). Hammer Museum.

Evening dress by House of Worth, 1867-70. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Pair of long gold filigree earrings set with pearls, Salamanca (Spain), 1800-70. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Young Women Looking at Japanese Objects, by French painter James Tissot (1869). Cincinnati Art Museum.

Evening dress, 1909-11. Hillwood Museum.

Evening dress, 1850. The details in the dress are made of beetle wings. Kyoto Costume Institute.

Writing box in papier-mâché, with stationary compartments, pen tray and inkpot, painted and inlaid with mother-of-pearl on the lid. English, 1840-70. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Evening dress, 1850-56. Netherlands. Rijksmuseum.

Les Adieux (The Farewells), by French painter James Tissot (1871). Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

Chatelaine with paper pad, sewing egg, and pincushion, 1870. Leather, brass. France. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Tintype portrait of an unidentified young woman. Photographed in the 1860s.