Emory University has just launched a new website, featuring many hundreds of early postcards featuring well-known (at the time) Shakespearean actors in costume. If these poses remind you of silent films, remember that's precisely the time period and style of acting that was popular then.
This is a great site both for postcard lovers and theatre history fans alike:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vaul...uced_in.html