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Historic Portraits of Officials

Portraits of historical figures in formal attire, showcasing 19th-century fashion and dignified poses.

Rev. Rice

Black, Judge Jeremiah

Rev. F.A. Barton

Wendell Phillips

Rev. H.F. Pease

Chapin, Hon. Chester Wm. of Mass. (early mail contractor, running post coaches and steamboats) (Pres. of Boston & Albany R.R.)

Hon. Jno. McKean

Rev. Dudley Tyng

Wm. Cullen Bryant

Hon. Butler

Sherman, John of Ohio

Bishop Alfred Lee of Delaware

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Jno. D. Arnold

Maxey, Hon. Samuel Bell of Texas

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Published in Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 176. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Yocum, Hon. S.H. of PA

Hon. J.S. Morrill

William Woodworth, father-in-law of of Civil War nurse Mary A.E. Keen / Brady, New York ; Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Broadway & Tenth Street, New York & No. 352 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. | Library of Congress

Hon. David C. Broderick of Cal.

Portrait, General Henry K. Oliver, 1800-1885, from painting at City Hall by J. Harvey Young , Portrait paintings, Military officers, Oliver, Henry K. Henry Kemble, 1800-1885. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Hon. James Eads of Mo. (Built the St. Louis Bridge)

Jefferson, Joseph (Actor)

Judge David Davis, U.S. Supreme Court

Hon. John Sherman of Ohio

Portrait, General Henry K. Oliver, 1800-1885, from painting at City Hall by J. Harvey Young , Portrait paintings, Military officers, Oliver, Henry K. Henry Kemble, 1800-1885. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Bailey, Hon. James Edmund of Tenn. (Col. 49th Tenn. Inf. C.S.A.)

Simon Cameron

Murray Hoffman

Rev. Matthews

Waite, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Hon. Stephen Lorenzo Mayham of N.Y.

Darwin, Prof.

Zachary Taylor: twelfth President of the United States | Library of Congress

Fenton, Hon. Reuben E. of N.Y.

Daguerreotype - Robert Hamilton of Queenston, ON, about 1845

Rev. Potter

Rev. Breckinridge

Fish, Hon. Hamilton of NY

Hon. Thomas A.R. Nelson of Tenn.

Garland, Hon. A.H., Attny. General

Marshall, Hon. C.K. of Miss

Rev. Murray

Holman, Hon. W.S. of Ind.

Sherman, Hon. John of Ohio

Murray Hoffman

Phillip Dorsheimer

Bishop Alfred Lee of Delaware

Rev. Lyman Beecher

Hon. George Robertson Dennis of Md

Rev. I. F. Mercier

Blaine, Hon. James G. of Maine

Jas. H. Slater of Oregon, M.C.

Stevenson, Hon. John White of Ky.

F.E. Rea

Prof. Jos. Henry

Reverdy Johnson

Michael Dunn, half-length portrait, facing front | Library of Congress

Portrait by John Ericsson (1803-1889), inventor. Nordic

Rev. Dunbar

Rev. I. F. Mercier

Rev. Muhlenberg

Phillip Dorsheimer

Hon. Anthony Knapp of Ill.

Burdick, J.H. of Dakota

Rev. R.R. Booth

Dr. Willard Parker, portrait bust

Edwin Hurd Conger, 1843-1907

G.W. Elliott

Phelps, Hon. James of Conn. M.C.

Hon. Josiah Thomas Walls of Florida

Henry Bellows

Hayes, Mrs. R.B., wife of President Hayes

Rev. Peter Stryker

Roger B. Taney

Prof. Robert Weir

L.Y. Sherman

Marshall S. Bidwell

Morrison Remick Waite (1816-1888), seventh Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1874 through 1888. He was appointed by Ulysses S. Grant

Morgan, Hon. John T. of ALA

Louis W. Fairfield

Portrait, Jonathan Goodhue , Portrait paintings. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Rev. J. H. Anderson. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American clergy

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