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Historic Portraits of Notable Figures

Black and white portraits of male figures from varying eras, showcasing formal attire and classic photography styles.

Dr. B.L. Jefferson

M. W. Gilbert, D. D. recto.. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American Baptists, African Americans , South Carolina, African American orators

Portrait of Harlem, New York, businessman, nightclub owner and black baseball club financier Barron Wilkins, 1906.. 1906. Portraits, Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Wilkins, Barron, -1924, African American businesspeople, Boards of directors , United States, Afro-American Realty Company

H.S. Pritchett

William Tecumseh Vernon, 1871-

George Edward Pearson. Photograph.

Booker T. Washington. Portraits, Photographs, Illustrations. 1897. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African Americans , History, African Americans , Biography, Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, African American authors, African American educators, African American college presidents

African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

W.C. Eustis

Station manager Gustaf Leonard Torstensson.

Lewis P. Collins , Mayors. Lawrence

Arnold Bennett

Lewis P. Collins , Mayors. Lawrence

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (18751912) African-English composer who achieved such success he was called the African Mahler. His best known work is a cantata Hiawathas Wedding Feast, 1898. Coleridge-Taylor in 1905. Music

Nicholas McGaughren

Ernest Siegfried.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940) Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist publisher, journalist and orator. Founder in 1914 of the Universal Negro Improvement Association aimed at uniting Africa and its diaspora.

Prince Kalanianaole of Hawaii, portrait

Henry Breckenridge

Daniel, Hon. John W. of Va., 1829, Chief of staff of Joseph Early

1800s 1900s AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATOR AUTHOR ORATOR BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE PORTRAIT CIRCA 1901

C.E. Hughes Jr.

P. Boutroux

Konrad Adenauer as a student 1896. Portrait. Konrad Adenauer was the first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963. He stood for ties to the West, the unification of Europe and membership in NATO. He was a founding father of the CDU and its party leader. contemporary history, historical

Portrait of Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 - 1946) German dramatist and novelist.

Booker T. Washington, educator. 1880. Portraits, Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, African American authors, African American educators

Geo. E. Roberts

Young African American man, half-length portrait, facing slightly left African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

Hervey S. Moore

JAMES RAMSAY MACDONALD British politician (Labour party) Date: 1866 - 1937

Portrait of Mr Loveridge, circa 1935, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

Richard R. Wright, A. M. President of Georgia State Industrial College. See sketch, page 393. Portraits, Photographs, Illustrations. 1897. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African Americans , History, African Americans , Biography

12/31/1889. Portrait of Ruben Darío.

Photographic print of George Washington Carver (born into slavery in 1861or1864 - 1943), half-length portrait, facing right, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama by Benjamin Frances Johnston, (1864-1952).

Billy Griffin

Alfred Szendrei

Sir John Longstaff. May 23, 1935.

Portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg. Photographs, Portrait photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, Authors, Black , United States

06/30/1914. José Lopera, Spanish artist, who is said to have been shot in Mexico.

F.A. Munsey

Pres't Dartiguenave of Haiti

African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

Man, inscribed Wong Louie, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Roy Shattuck

Paul Lawrence Dunbar.. Photographs. 1915. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Universities & colleges , Ohio, African Americans , Ohio, African American poets, Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906

Morar Ranchod (1886-1965), circa 1935, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Daniel Edward Howard (1861-1935), the President of Liberia from 1912 to 1920.

George Washington Carver, half-length portrait, facing right, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama

Connie Mack, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait

Rev. D. Webster Davis. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American clergy, African American authors, Davis, d. Webster (Daniel Webster), b. 1862

COPY1/417/500 S J Celestine Edwards (registered: 1894) Our Education Document of the Month for October is this set of photographs of Samuel Jules Celestine Edwards (1857-1894) that were registered for copyright shortly after his death. The son of liberated West Indian slaves, Edwards travelled from St Johns, Antiguia through America and Scotland before settling in London. He studied theology and medicine and published several books on Christianity and Anti-Racism.

George Washington Murray recto.. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African Americans , South Carolina, African American politicians, Murray, George W. (George Washington), 1853-1926

Clark 6 12/10, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Ray Stannard Baker, half-length portrait

R.S. Brookings

Kingsley L. Martin

Hugh M. Miller

Young African American man, half-length portrait, seated, facing left African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

Minnesota Congressman Andrew Volstead, author of the Volstead Act (or National Prohibition Act) ca. early 1900s.

Luis Herrera

Hon. George H. White recto.. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African Americans , North Carolina, African American lawyers, White, George H. (George Henry), 1852-1918

Owen Johnson

African-American educator Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University (taken ca. 1905-1915).

Sgt. John S. or W.() Lawson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

F.W. Hinrichs

Bartered Scientist.Born of slave parents in Missouri, George Washington Carver as ***** kidnaped and traded **** race horse ***** his way through high ***** (B.S. and M.S. *****. July 01, 1932.

Bob Dalton, American train robber who was killed in a bank raid in 1892. Date: 19th Century

C.R.L. Putnam. Photograph, 1896.

Luthur Burbank

Portrait of a young man, circa 1915, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Dr. John T. Cahill , Mayors. Lawrence

Liang Qichao (Wade-Giles: Liang Ch'i-ch'ao; Styled Zhuoru, Pseudonym: Rengong, February 23, 1873-January 19, 1929) was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher and reformist during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), who inspired Chinese scholars with his writings and reform movements. He died of illness in Beijing at the age of 55. As an advocate of constitutional monarchy, Liang was unhappy with the governance of the Qing Government and wanted to change the status quo in China. He organized reforms with Kang Youwei by putting their ideas on paper and sending them to Emperor Guangxu (, 1871-1908; reigned 1875-1908) of the Qing Dynasty. This movement is known as the Wuxu Reform or the Hundred Days' Reform. In the late 1920s, Liang retired from politics and taught at the Tung-nan University in Shanghai and the Tsinghua Research Institute in Peking as a tutor. He founded Chiang-hsüeh she (Chinese Lecture Association) and brought many intellectual figures to China, including Driesch and Ta

Kid Wagner

Bob Wah Ying, circa 1940, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

H. Morgenthau

Cook 6 studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

President Daniel Edward Howard of Liberia.

Booker T. Washington recto.. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, African American authors, African American college teachers, Tuskegee (Ala.)

Per Herman Lindberg, Hällbo. Per Herman Lindberg, Hällbo.

Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales (1845-1896). Jefe revolucionario cubano, conocido como "el titán de bronce". General del ejército. Grabado de 1895.

Noble Sissle 001

Man black-and-white negatives, gelatin silver negatives, studio portraits

Ramón Picó Campamar (1848-1916), escritor. Grabado de 1892.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) African American educator and Civil Rights leader. Photographic portrait of Booker seated and holding a open book.

Edward H. Wright, Attorney - Politician.. Illustrations. 1925. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Chicago (Ill.), African American politicians, African American lawyers

Gentleman 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Young man, circa 1930s, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Zulu Chief Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868-1913) - In 1890 Dinuzulu was exiled to the island of St. Helena for seven years, possibly during which time this portrait photograph was taken Date: circa 1896

Robert Pelham, Jr.. 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, Detroit (Mich.), Editors

Photograph of Andrew Jackson. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Edward German (1862-1936), compositor inglés.

HENRY FORD - American automobile manufacturer. Date: 1863 - 1947

Edward Thoner; C. Millington Drayson (British, active 1870s); 1865 - 1870; Albumen silver print

Willem Willeke

William Gorgas, (1854-1920), 1920s. Artist: Unknown

Mr. G. Bernard Shaw

Chester, U.S. minister, Liberia. Chester, U.S. minister to Liberia.. Cartes de visite, Photographs. 1870. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans, Harrisburg (Pa.), African American diplomats, African Americans , Men

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as Student. Samara by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1890/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

General F. D. Légitime; President of Haiti, 1888-9.. Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. Photographs, Illustrations. 1910. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Presidents , Haiti

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 1912) English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the African Mahler

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