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Historical Portraits of 19th Century Men

A collection of formal portrait photographs featuring men in vintage attire, seated with serious expressions against plain backdrops and draped fabrics.

Hon. John Alexander Magee of PA
Hon. John Alexander Magee of PA
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Male portrait, 1887-1888, Wellington, by Connolly and Company.Stin's Axel Leonard Lindström.Hiram BarneyStanton, Hon. Edwin M. Secty of War Lincoln's CabinetEdwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, c. 1865ULYSSES S. GRANT, undated.Walt WhitmanDigitally restored vector portrait of James Ewell Brown Stuart. James Ewell Brown Stuart was a Confederate General during the American Civil War and was known as Jeb to his friends.JOSE JACINTO MILANES - 1814/1863 - ESCRITOR CUBANO.Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Morrison Waite. Image taken sometime between 1870 and 1880.Alfred Lord TENNYSON, 1809-83, English poet, seated with copy of Homer's Odyssey on his lap, photograph by Barraud, c. 1880sUlysses S. Grant (1822-1885). Military and North American politician. 18th President of the United States (1869-1877). Portrait. Engraving. "Historia Universal", 1885.Robert McGee, scalped by Sioux Chief Little Turtle in 1864. Robert McGee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, showing effects of being scalped as a child. 1890William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) American soldier and businessman. During the American Civil War (1861-1865) he served as a General in the Union army. Outstanding strategist who conducted total war against the Confederate States.Wm. FloydDigitally restored vector portrait of Ulysses S. Grant.Samuel Bland Arnold (September 6, 1834 - September 21, 1906) was involved in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He and the other conspirators, John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, Lewis Powell, Michael O'Laughlen and John Surratt, were to kidnap Lincoln and hold him to exchange for the Confederate prisoners in Washington D.C. This photograph has backgrounds of dark metal, and was presumably taken on the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, where the conspirators were for a time co