Beti Karaitiana, a Māori woman with a ta moko (tattoo), c. 1870s

Victoria, Princess Royal and Princess of Prussia, December 1860

Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway (1777-1860) Portrait by Fredric Westin

Prince Yixin (Prince Gong) of the Qing dynasty at the Convention of Beijing, 2 November 1860

King Kamehameha V of Hawaiʻi (1830-1872)

Silent film actress Vilma Bánky (1901-1991)

Photograph of presumably Vaudeville actress and singer Mae “Baby Vamp” Fanning. She was active in the 1920s and appeared in musicals by Black musical pioneers Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle

Empress Eugénie of the French, painted by Charles Édouard Boutibonne, 1856

Embroiderer and artist’s model Jane Morris, 1865. She was a muse to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and her husband William Morris

Constance of Austria, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (1588-1631) Portrait attributed to Jakob Troschel, 1610s

Jazz musician and entertainer Valaida Snow in costume for “In Bamville”, 1924

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg (1655-1720), Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, German Queen and Archduchess of Austria Portrait by an unknown artist, circa 1680

Portrait of “a Youth with a Surgical Cut in One Eye”, dated during the Roman period of Egypt, 190-210 CE

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), the first Black American published author and poet

Danish author Baroness Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd (1773-1856) Portrait by Jens Juel, c. 1790

Mata Hari, c. 1905

Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton (1632-1716) Portrait by David Scougall

Hü King Eng, Gurubai Karmarkar and Mary H. Platt who were students at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, c. 1891 Hü was the second Chinese student to attend a university in the US and Karmarkar was the second Indian student to attend Woman’s Medical College

Princess Marie of Orléans, Princess Valdemar of Denmark

Queen Maud of Norway

Empress Maria Leopoldina of Brazil Portrait by Luís Schlappriz, 19th century

A couple from the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm, the first Japanese settlement in North America and the only samurai settlement outside of Japan, c. 1870

Rainilaiarivony (1828-1896) who was an influential Prime Minister of Madagascar and was married to three queens Rasoherina, Ranavalona II and Ranavalona III

Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Duchess of Madrid, 1878

Princess Ekateriné of Mingrelia, Georgia (1816-1882), painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1850s Originally a Georgian aristocrat and the last ruling princess of the principality Mingrelia, Ekateriné was a central part of Georgian high society. She also served as regent

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Duchess of Edinburgh

Vaudeville singer, actress and dancer Saidie Sellyna, c. 1911

Queen Tamar of Georgia (or Tamar the Great) and her father George III, c. 12th century

Queen Margherita of Italy, 1868

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1897

Daguerreotype of a Black American man taken around the mid-Victorian era

Princess Friederike of Hanover

Prince William IV of Orange and Stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1711-1751)

Queen Kapiʻolani of Hawaiʻi, circa 1870s

Photograph of an unidentified woman holding a scroll, possibly a diploma, circa 1890s

Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies Portrait by Johann Ender, circa 1836

Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 1887

Elizabeth Wrottesley, Duchess of Grafton Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1764

An unidentified woman photographer, c. 1899

Emperor Sunjong of Korea, c. 1910

Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, circa 1825

Queen Elisabeth of Romania

Princesses Nadezhda and Eudoxia of Bulgaria, circa early 1910s

Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, c. early 1910s

Actress, writer and civil rights activist Fredi Washington, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1933

Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, 1907

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

Activist, educator & journalist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)

Writer Alexandre Dumas

Zheng Yi Sao or Ching Shih (1775-1844) who was a female pirate leader and one of the most successful pirates in history. She commanded China’s most powerful pirate fleet and had conflicts with major powers. She lived a very peaceful and prosperous life post-piracy