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Engraved portraits of notable men from history, showcasing formal wear and traditional hairstyles in classic styles.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT American writer and educator, known for 'Thanatopsis'. Photo circa 1850. Date: 1794 - 1878

Vintage photograph. Martin van Buren, 8th President of the United States, (1782-1862)

Elihu Burrit from humorous leaves, Karl Klic -, Artist, Göschl, Realization

Portrait of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, photographed on silver gelatin paper using a box cabinet format in 1899.

John Tyler, US Presidents

CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY Churchman, when he was bishop of Durham, whence he moved upwards to Canterbury. Date: 1794 - 1868

George Stevens Byng (1806 - 18860 - 2nd () Earl of Strafford, statesman and sportsman.

Richard Cobden, British manufacturer, Radical and Liberal statesman, 19th century.Artist: W Holl

Samuel Houston (1793-1863) American Politician Stock Montage, Inc.

Photographic portrait of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) a British Liberal (and earlier Conservative) politician and former Prime Minister of Britain. Dated 19th Century

Millard Fillmore 1800 to 1874. 13th president of the United States 1850-53. From painting by Alonzo Chappel

John P. Marshall

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT American writer with his autograph Date: 1794 - 1878

USA: Andrew Johnson (1808 - 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Coloured lithograph, American School, mid-19th century

GLADSTONE, William Ewart (1809-1898). British politician, leader of the Whig Party.

U.S. President Franklin Pierce (1804-69), three-quarter length Portrait, Seated, Facing Right with Hand inside Vest, Engraving, 1850's

John Russell; 1st Earl Russell (17921878); British Prime Minister

Thomas Vowler Short, 1790-1872, English author, historian and Bishop of St Asaph. Painted by DJPound after a photograph by Mayall. From the book The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages, Volume 1, published in London 1860, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated

Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889, first and only President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

John Campbell,1st. Baron Campbell of St. Andrews, 1779-1861.British politician and Lord Chief Justice of the court of Queen's Bench. Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Published in London 1859.

Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern, 1799 - 1880, German liberal politician of the Vormaerz era and during the Maerzrevolution workers' uprising, wood engraving, 1880

Official Gubernatorial portrait of Horatio Seymour - Alvah Bradish

USA: James Knox Polk (1795 - 1849) was the 11th President of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. Restored portrait photograph, c. 1845

JOHN BIGELOW American diplomat (Minister to France), writer, President of the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library, at age 89. Date: 1817 - 1911

Rev. Alexander Gerard LLd, Sir George Reid (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1841 - 1913) 1879

John Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, June 6, 1800 to February 4, 1801 (ad interim February 4, 1801 to March 4 1801)

Vintage photograph. William Henry Harrison 9th President of the United States (1773-1841)

MATTHEW TALBOT BAINES (son of Sir Edward Baines, older) Lawyer and statesman, highly regarded but not distinguished for anything in particular. Date: circa. 1840s

James Wilson, 1805-1860. British politician, statesman, statistician, and Finance Minister. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Davy.From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1860

Vintage Photograph. Portrait of American statesman Stephen Arnold Douglas, illustration

William Floyd, 1734 to 1821, American statesman and founding father A signer of the Declaration of Independence Nineteenth-century engraving by AB Durand after a painting, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a nineteenth-century original, Record date not stated

Justus von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, a German chemist and professor

Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) American Showman Engraving

RICHARD WAGNER German musician Date: 1813 - 1883

Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899) German chemist and physicist.

George Peabody, 1795 - 1869, an American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist

USA: Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862) was the 8th President of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. Oil on canvas, (1813-1894), 1858

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives.

1830s PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON IRVING AMERICAN SHORT STORY WRITER ESSAYIST BIOGRAPHER HISTORIAN DIPLOMAT

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American Author

Andrew Jackson. Date: ca. 1840. oil on canvas. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Alessandro MANZONI (1785-1873), Italian novelist and poet

MILLARD FILLMORE President of the United States Date: 1800-1874

Historical drawing, US-American history, 19th century, portrait of John Brown, 1800 - 1859, a US-American abolitionist, abolitionist movement, a movement to abolish slavery

1800s 1822 SELF PORTRAIT JOHN J AUDUBON AT AGE 37

''Pictures of the Year - V." The Lord Congleton", after WW Ouless RA', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.

General Robert E Lee

Ludwig I. 1786, 1868, was King of Bavaria, Germany, from 1825 until the revolutions of 1848, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unknown, Europe

R.P. Buckland, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Civil War Collection, No. 4741. Buckland, Ralph P, (Ralph Pomeroy), 1812-1892, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB FRS (30 June 1817 - 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years, in succession to his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. On 11 November 1847 Hooker left England for his three-year-long Himalayan expedition; he would be the first European to collect plants in the Himalaya. He received free passage on HMS Sidon, to the Nile and then travelled overland to Suez where he boarded a ship to India. He arrived in Calcutta on 12 January 1848, then travelled by elephant to Mirzapur, up the Ganges by boat to Siliguri and overland by pony to Darjeeling, arriving on 16 April 1848. Hooker's survey of hitherto unexplored regions, the Himalayan Journals, dedicated to Charles Darwin, was published by the Calcutta Tri

Samuel Adams 1722-1803. American revolutionary leader and organizer of The Boston Tea Party.From painting by Alonzo Chappel

President William McKinley, circa 1901

Charles Darwin, 1809 1882, 45 years old. British naturalist. After a photography in 1854 by Maull and Fox, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

James Finlayson. Photograph.

Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778 - 1860), Thomas Sully, 1859, oil on canvas board

Famous people in American history, Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 in Litchfield, Connecticut; March 8, 1887 in Brooklyn, NY) was a Congregationalist American preacher and author who vehemently opposed slavery. Historical, digital reproduction of a collectible card from the 19th century. .

Austria, Vienna, Portrait of Franz Peter Schubert

Famous people in American history, Henry Ward Beecher (24 June 1813 in Litchfield) (Connecticut) ( 8 March 1887 in Brooklyn) (N.Y.) was a Congregationalist American preacher and author who vehemently opposed slavery, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century collector's picture

Justus Freiherr von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, German chemist and scientist, father of the fertilizer industry, digitally edited

Historic portrait, Giacomo Meyerbeer

Andrew Johnson 1808 1875, 17th President of the United States 1865-69, After a painting by Alonzo Chappel, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

James Knox Polk (1795-1849) American Democratic politician, eleventh President of the United States of America. Achieved territorial expansion, securing Oregon Territory, 525,000 square miles, and purchasing 525,000 square miles with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo which ended the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848.

JOHN JACOB ASTOR German-American trader and financier Date: 1763 - 1848

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in his laboratory. American inventor of the phonograph and businessman.

Portrait of General Jose de San Martin (1778-1850). Argentina, 18th-19th century.

Illustration Portrait Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 Macabre Gothic Poet Writer Author The Raven Fall Of The House Of Usher

President Andrew Jackson, drawn from life by James Barton Longacre in July 1933 and engraved by the same (BSLOC_2017_6_11)

President John Tyler 1863. 10th President of the United States.

George M. Bibb (1776-1859), American Politician from Kentucky and Seventeenth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Seated Portrait, Brady-Handy Collection, late 1850's

Lewis Cass - circa 1860

Wm. Barksdale. Brig. Gen. Miss. | Library of Congress

President McKinley, 1901. Artist: Unknown

Thomas Babington, British poet, historian and Whig politician, 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Portrait of Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) an English bishop of the Anglican Church, man of letters and Headmaster of Harrow School. Dated 19th Century

Stephen Arnold Douglas, 1813-1861, American politician and leader of the Democratic Party, Illustration from Gallery of Historical Portraits, published around 1880, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Daniel Webster, 1782 - 1852, a senator from Massachusetts

Thomas Henry Huxley. Photogravure after J. Mayall, 1896.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Irish Poet Stock Montage, Inc.

Edgar Allan Poe c1904. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic

Maine Senator Hannibal Hamlin was Vice President in Abraham Lincoln's first Administration, 1861-65. Hamlin was an early supporter of Lincoln and brought geographic balance to the 1860 Republican ticket (BSLOC_2018_6_24)

Famous people in American history, Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 in Salisbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire; October 24, 1852 in Marshfield, Massachusetts) was an American politician, Historical, digital reproduction of a collectible picture from the 19th century .

1969 Brooke Bond collectors tea card, depicting: William Gladstone, (18091898), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times between 1868 and 1894

Francisco de Frías y Jaccott (1809-1877). 4th Count of Pozos Dulces. Cuban journalist, politician, agronomist and economist. Portrait. Illustration by Bielsa. Chromolithography. "Historia General de España" (General History of Spain), by Miguel Morayta. Volume IX. Madrid, 1896.

Sir James Paget. Oil painting by William Swainson.

Millard Fillmore. oil on canvas. Date: December 2, 1857. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1840 portrait by Charles Osgood. Hawthorne published his first novel in 1828. 'The Scarlet Letter,' was published over 20 years later, in 1850. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, morality, and with an anti-Puritan themes (BSLOC_2019_7_175)

JAMES BUCHANAN, by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1859, oil on canvas. Buchanan is often rated among the lowest of US Presidents. Most recently, he was the subject of Robert Strauss' 2016 book, WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER. (BSLOC_2018_5_159)

E.A. Poe

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) Stock Montage, Inc.

Antoine Jérôme Balard or Ballard, 1802 - 1876, a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine

Edgar Allen Poe Benjamin D. Maxhan (19th C. American) Daguerreotype National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE French writer and critic Date: 1821 - 1867

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801-1876), Anonymous

Honorable Martin Van Buren, Vice President of the United States (1835). Later 6th President

RICHARD WAGNER, 1813-1883, German composer

Alexander Campbell -- the teacher, preacher, writer, theologian, farmer and financier , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636344

Portrait of Antonio ROSMINI, philosopher

1860s DAVID LIVINGSTONE SCOTTISH DOCTOR MISSIONARY EXPLORER OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA

Portrait of Hector Berlioz (La Cote-Saint-Andre, 1803-Paris, 1869), French composer. Painting by Andrea Cefaly (1827-1907), Italian painter.

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