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Historic Portraits of Leadership

Engravings and portraits depicting prominent 19th-century leaders, showcasing formal attire and artistic styles from the period.

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front | Library of Congress
Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front | Library of Congress
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Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1860) Abraham Lincolnlabel QS:Len,Abraham Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson, Senator from Tennessee, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait, circa 1859
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Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States, (early 20th century).Artist: William Cogswell
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Portrait of President Rutherford B Hayes 19th President of the USA 1877 81
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Abraham Lincoln 1809-65, 16th President of the United States 1861-65, After a painting by Alonzo Chappel, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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ECHEGARAY, JOSE ESCRITOR Y POLITICO ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1832-1916. OLEO DE JOSE SANCHEZ PESCADOR TEATRO ESPAÑOL. MADRID. Author: JOSE SANCHEZ PESCADOR (1839-1877).
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Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85), 18th President of the United States 1869-77, General of Union Army during American Civil War, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Published by E.C. Middleton & Co., Cincinnati, 1866
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Hand tinted photo of Alexander H Stephens - Vice President of the Confederate States of America - US Civil War
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Photographic portrait of Henry A. Wise (1806-1876) an American lawyer and politician. Dated 19th Century
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Frederick Douglass (1818-95), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, head and shoulders Portrait, Daguerreotype, Unidentified Artist, 1856
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Simon Cameron served as Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War for 10 months, when he was replaced by highly competent Edwin Stanton. Cameron's unsatisfactory performance earned him exile as the US ambassador to Russia in St. Petersburg (BSLOC_2018_6_34)
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Portrait, Nathaniel Hawthorne, from portrait by George P.A. Healey, painted for Franklin Pierce, 1852 , Portrait paintings, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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Abraham Lincoln 1809-65, 16th President of the United States 1861-65, After a painting by Alonzo Chappel, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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JOHN CALHOUN, by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1845 American painting, oil on canvas. As Senator from South Carolina, he opposed the MexicanAmerican War, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850. Calhoun was nominally a Democrat, but most consistently acted for the interests of the South (BSLOC_2018_5_145)
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Digitally restored vector portrait of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. September 03, 1938.
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Andrew Johnson, Senator from Tennessee, Thirty-fifth Congress, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Photograph by Julian Vannerson, 1859
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Full-Length Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, Engraving by John Chester Buttre, 1860
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Portrait of Georg Balthazar von Neumayer, Ritter von Neumayer, 1826 - 1909, German polar explorer, geographer and geophysicist, best known for cooperation of meteorology and scientific observations, digitally optimized
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Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895. Englischer Physiologe, Anatom, Zoologe, Anthropologe, Agnostiker und Pädagoge. Aus dem Buch The International Library of Famous Literature. Veröffentlicht in London 1900. Band XVIII., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated
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Frederick Douglass. Date/Period: 1847/52. Photograph. Daguerreotype Daguerreotype. Height: 140 mm (5.51 in); Width: 106 mm (4.17 in). Author: Samuel J. Miller.
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Sir Francis Crossley Bart. 1817-1872. British Member of Parliament for Halifax and manager of the Dean Clough factory. Engraving by DJPound after a photograph by Mayall. From the book The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, Volume 2, published in London 1859, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated
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Juan Manuel de Cajigal Odoardo (1802-1856), founder of Venezuelan mathematical and engineering studies. Engraving, 1883.
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Portrait of Ulysses S Grant, US General and President
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John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, 1772-1863, British politician and Lord Chancellor of England. Engraving by DJPound after a photograph by Mayall. From the book The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, Volume 2, published in London 1859, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated
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Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895, English biologist and anthropologist, specialized in comparative anatomy, digitally edited
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Daniel Webster was a leading Whig party Senator, serving from 1827-1850, with a break from 1841-1845. He was Secretary of State in the administrations of Harrison-Tyler and Millard Fillmore. Photo from the 1840s (BSLOC_2018_5_142)
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Thomas Hart Benton, Democratic Senator from Missouri 1821 to 1851, in a daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, ca. 1850. He was a slave owner, but grew to oppose slavery after the MexicanAmerican War. His position that the Compromise of 1850 was too favorable to slavery, cost him his Senate seat. After election to Congress in 1852, he lost that seat in 1854, due to his opposition to the KansasNebraska Act (BSLOC_2019_7_44)
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Henry Clay (12 April 1777 - 29 June 1852) was an American planter and politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as Secretary of State, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Copper engraving from the 19th Century, portaits of the presidents of the United States of America, 1829-1849, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Knock Polk
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Nikolai Andreevich Gavrilov (Centrosibir) ca. 1908.
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Douglass, Frederick J.W. Hurn (19th C.)
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John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 ñ November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist and politician. He was the first dean of the law school at Howard University
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Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895, English biologist and anthropologist, specialized in comparative anatomy, digitally edited
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ILLUSTRATION PORTRAIT OF ANDREW JACKSON WITH MEMBERS OF WHIG PARTY DANIEL WEBSTER AND HENRY CLAY
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Frederick Douglass, in daguerreotype portrait by Samuel J. Miller, ca. 1847-52. There are 160 known photographic portraits of Douglass. He noted that photographs bore witness to African Americans humanity, and stood as a rebuttal to the racist caricatures of his time (BSLOC_2019_8_117)
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Thomas Hughes, 1822-1896, English judge and man of letters, From the book The International Library of Famous Literature published 1900, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Frederick Douglass, former slave and abolitionist orator, escaped slavery in 1838. He established a newspaper, NORTH STAR, which he edited for seventeen years. 1855 portrait by an unknown photographer (BSLOC_2018_5_30)
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'The Right Hon. Lord Northcliffe', c1890, (1911). Artist: Unknown.
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RETRATO DE NICOLAI VASILIEVICH GOGOL (1809-1852) - ESCRITOR RUSO. Author: HIPAK T.
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Chitto Harjo or Crazy Snake, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front
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Statue of president Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, America, USA
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Lincoln Served Two Years, Quotes
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Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., United States of America
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John Ericsson, inventor (1803-1889). Nordic
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Rev. J. B. Fields.. Simmons, William J., 1849-1890. Portraits. 1887. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , History, Slavery , United States, Clergy, Missouri
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William Henry Seward, 1801 - 1872, an American politician, 12th Governor of New York
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Illustration of David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Welsh Liberal statesman; showing the then Chancellor of the Exchequer presenting his Budget to the House of Commons, 1909. Date: 1909
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GERONIMO, Apache leader, undated.
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Sir John A Macdonald statue in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
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USA - CIRCA 1970’s: postage stamp with USA president Abraham Lincoln, circa 1970’s