The images - among the oldest surviving photos in history - are owned by the Royal Photographic Society and on display at the National Media Museum, Bradford.
They included a teenage girl, known only as ‘Christina’, who appeared in a set of 102-year-old colour portraits is now identified as Christina Elizabeth Frances Bevan, a woman who died without marrying in 1981 at the age of 84. Scholars were puzzled on the ethereal strawberry blonde, captured by photographer Mervyn O'Gorman in a series of dreamlike photos taken in Lulworth Cove, Dorset, in 1913.
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Scholars have been puzzled over 'Christina', the ethereal strawberry blonde who was captured by photographer Mervyn O'Gorman in a series of dreamlike photos taken in Lulworth Cove, Dorset, in 1913 (pictured), and then disappeared into history. Her full name is now revealed to have been Christina Elizabeth Frances Bevan, and she died in 1981 when she was 84, with no listed husband or children
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