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19th Century Male Portraits

A series of formal portraits featuring men in Victorian clothing, with somber expressions and classic hairstyles, reflecting the style and decorum of the 1800s.

Judge McCunn

Dr. Hodge

John Sefton

Rev. J.W. Dunn

Chancellor Ferris

Rev. Wm. D. Ryan

Louis Blanc, French politician and historian, 1870. Artist: Unknown

Toombs, Hon. Robert of GA

Rev. Gillette

Merriam, Hon. Clinton Levi, Rep. of N.Y.

James Watson Webb

Portrait of James Watson (1766-1838) publisher and leading chartist. Dated 19th Century

Donald McKay. Artist: Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811-1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808-1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire). Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.5cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2in.). Photography Studio: Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843-1863). Date: ca. 1850-55.This first photographic process invented by Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) spread rapidly around the world after its presentation to the public in Paris in 1839. Exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapors, each highly polished silvered copper plate is a unique photograph that, viewed in proper light, exhibits extraordinary detail and three-dimensionality.The Boston partnership of Southworth and Hawes produced the finest portrait daguerreotypes in America for leading political, intellectual, and artistic figures. They also catered to a wealthy local clientele including the shipbuilder Donald McKay (1810-1880). A native of Nova Sco

Honorable Thomas A. Hendricks, Indiana between circa 1860 and circa 1865

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States from April 1865 to March 1869. As Vice President, he assumed the Presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination (BSLOC_2019_5_98)

Dr. Jno. W. Francis

Portrait, Nathaniel Hawthorne, from portrait by Charles Osgood , Portrait paintings, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Gov. Richard Yates of Ill.

Industrialist Anton Wilhelm Frestadius.

Hon. Wm. C. Bouck

Hon. Joseph H. Rainey, South Carolina 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Engraved portrait of Edward Baines (1774-1848), the English newspaper proprietor and politician. Date: date unknown

Honorable Benjamin Franklin Wade of Ohio, circa 1875

James Wilson (1805-1860) British politician and economist born at Hawick, Scotland. Liberal Member of Parliament for Westbury, Wiltshire, 1847. Campaigner for Free Trade. Founder of the magazine The Economist in 1834. Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1860).

Judge Joseph Bradley

Lee O'Neill Browne

Portrait of Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, circa 1865

The Portrait of Former United States President Andrew Johnson returned to the Senate in 1875, (age 66). March 5, 1875

Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Italian politician, 19th century. Artist: DJ Pound

AGA.Ljungstedt Head of the Engineer Department 1861-1867 .. A.G.A.Ljungstedt Head of the Engineer Ministry of 1861-1867.

Portrait, Judge Joseph Story, 1779-1845, by Charles Osgood, at the Essex Institute , Portrait paintings, Story, Joseph, 1779-1845. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

USA: Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862) was the 8th President of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. Photograph, Mathew Brady (1822-1896), c. 1855

Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) Italian patriot. In 1860, at the head of his l,000 Red Shirts, he conquered Sicily and Naples. Engraving.

FRANCIS GALTON Scientist Date: 1822 - 1911

Portrait, Samuel Adams, by Copley, painted on wood, at Harvard , Portrait paintings, Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

General Key Carl Oskar Troilius at the State Railways, SJ.

Captain Carl Lundqvist head of the engineering department in 1845-1848.Captain Carl Lundqvist Head of Engineering Department 1845-1848

Portrait, Nathaniel Hawthorne , Authors, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Rev. W. Holston

WASHINGTON IRVING American author of books about the Alhambra, New York, Columbus and the conquest of Granada. with his autograph Date: 1783 - 1859

Honorable Charles Sumner. USA senator and statesman. The champion of civil and political equality. 1811 - 1874

A.V. Stoughton

Rev. I. F. Mercier

Vintage photograph. Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States

Dean, Hon. Benjamin of Mass.

Photographic print of Brigham Young (1801 ñ 1877) American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormons) and a settler of the Western United States. Dated 1870

Hon. Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio

Alvord, Gen. Benj.

Lord Napier

George Perkins Marsh, United States minister resident in the Ottoman Empire. ca. 1850

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-81) British Conservative statesman. Photograph by Jabez Hughes, 22 July, 1878 by command of Queen Victoria.

Toombs, Hon. Robert of GA

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher

Edward M. Stanton (1814-1869), U.S. Secretary of War during American Civil War, half-length Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, 1860's

Joseph Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, c1890 Photograph

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian pianist and composer. After a photograph

Henry Clay ca. 1840 Oliver Frazer. Henry Clay 10905

Frederick Douglass, African-Americans

John Russell, lst Earl Russell (1792-1878), c1870. Known as Lord John Russell until 1861 when he was created Earl. British Whig and Liberal politician who served two terms as Prime Minister, 1846-1852 and 1865-1866. Grandfather of the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. From 'The World's Great Men'. (London, c.1870). Engraving.

William Ewart Gladstone...England's famous Prime Minister, from an old photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, which appeared in Volume of 3 of "Life of William Ewart Gladstone". In Parnell, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, co-starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, the role of Gladstone is played by Montagu Love. John M. Stahl directed. March 14, 1938.

MARIE ROSALIE known as ROSA BONHEUR French artist whose country scenes and cattle remain extremely popular, photographed in 1882. Date: 1822-1899

Joseh Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, c1855. From a daguerreotpe taken when he was about 28. Photograph.

A.V. Stoughton

President Andrew Johnson. Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He became president as Abraham Lincoln's Vice President at the time of Lincoln's assassination.

Portrait, Samuel Adams, by B. Onthank after Copley , Portrait paintings, Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Portrait of Gustav Freytag (1816 - 1895) German novelist and playwright.

Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, about 1870. Photographer unknown

Frederick Douglass (c1818-1895,born Frederick Augustus Washing Bailey, a slave), c1879. African American abolitionist, reformer, champion of womens suffrage and believer in the equality of all citizens of the United States.

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