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Historical Portraits of Notable Figures

A collection of vintage portraits featuring distinguished individuals, captured in formal attire with somber expressions and dark backgrounds.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Half-length Seated Portrait, Brady-Handy Collection, 1860's
Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Half-length Seated Portrait, Brady-Handy Collection, 1860's
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Cyrus W. Field 1879 Daniel Huntington American. Cyrus W. Field 11188
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E.P. Bailey seated
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Cyrus Hall McCormick, Irish American farmer, inventor, businessman, and marketer, (c1924). Artist: Unknown
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MORSE, SAMUEL. AMERICAN PHYSICIST AND INVENTOR. ENGRAVED PORTRAIT. NATIONAL LIBRARY. MADRID.
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Jules GREVY, 1807-91 French, President of the Republic, 1879
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Photographic portrait of William Henry Smith (1825-1891) an English Member of Parliament, bookseller and newsagent of the family firm W H Smith. Dated 19th Century
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Giuseppe garibaldi
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Frederick Douglass / C.F. Conly, Photographer, 465 Washington St., Boston. - digital file from original, front | Library of Congress
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Chester A. ARTHUR, 1829-86, 21st President, 1881-85, of the United States. Photograph
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F.Q.J.S. Hill. Photograph by the Ramsdell Studio.
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USA: Rutherford B. Hayes (1822 - 1893) was the 19th President of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. Oil on canvas, Daniel Huntington (1816-1906), 1884
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James R. Doolittle.
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Walt Whitman, American 19th century poet in a portrait by Mathew Brady. His work was influenced by two literary movements, transcendentalism, and realism. Whitman is still one of the most widely appreciated American poets  (BSLOC_2019_8_224)
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Blaine, Hon. J.G. of Maine
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PAINTING OF ANDREW CARNEGIE.
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Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882), African-American Abolitionist, Minister, Educator and Orator, head and shoulders Portrait, James U. Stead, 1881
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President Ulysses S. Grant, c. 1870-80. Photo by Mathew Brady Studio  (BSLOC_2018_10_75)
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Photograph of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) an Italian opera composer. Dated 19th Century
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CESAR FRANCK (1822-1890) - COMPOSITOR Y ORGANISTA FRANCES. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Burton Craige.
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ULYSSES S. GRANT in the 1870,s.
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Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, 1909. Artist: Unknown
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COSTA, JOAQUIN JURISTA Y POLITICO ESPAÑOL. MONZON 1846-1911.
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Ulysses S. Grant, 1822 - 1885, 18th President of the United States of America, historic woodcut, circa 1880
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Henry K. Oliver , Mayors, Oliver, Henry K. Henry Kemble, 1800-1885. Lawrence
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Hon. Nathaniel Prentice Banks of Massachusetts (General in Union Army), circa 1865
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Gen. J.C. Breckinridge
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Bishop Abraham Grant.. Portraits, Illustrations. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Slavery , United States, Bishops, African American men
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Albert Pike, was a Confederate Brigadier General, who created Cherokee regiments during the US Civil War. Reports that Cherokee's scalped dead and wounded Union soldiers, caused sensational Northern headlines, and ultimately, Pike's resignation from the Southern army  (BSLOC_2018_8_4)
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United  States:  1870 A portrait of noted American poet Walt Whitman.
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Walt Whitman, 1870, in head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front and wearing a hat. This is known as the 'Quaker Portrait' taken when Whitman was 50 years  (BSLOC_2019_8_123)
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Portrait of Brigham Young. Charles William Carter (American, 1832 - 1918)
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Portrait of the founder Oskar von Forckenbeck (1822-1898)
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GARCIA GUTIERREZ, Antonio (Chiclana de la Frontera,1813-Madrid,1884). Escritor español. Autor de dramas en verso como "El trovador" (1836) y "Doña Urraca de Castilla" (1872), y de los libretos de zarzuela "El grumete" (1853) y "La tabernera de Londres" (1862). Oleo de José Sánchez Pescador. Teatro Español. Madrid. España.
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Victor Hugo in Brussels "(Dedicated: I obey you, yes, Mademoiselle)". Photograph by Pierre Petit (1832-1909), 1861. Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. 33527-12 Sitting, French writer
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Robert Edward Lee, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 3.8 cm). Lithographer: George S. Harris & Sons (American, Philadelphia). Publisher: Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia). Date: 1888.Trade cards from the "Great Generals" series (N15), issued in 1888 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Josiah Henson (1789-1883), a former Slave, he escaped to Canada to become an Author, Abolitionist, and Minister, Bradshaw and Godart, 1876
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Transparency - Sir Donald A. Smith, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Peter Redpath, composite, about 1900
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Thomas Blyton, spiritualist, secretary of the Dalston Association of Enquirers into Spiritualism.  He hosted seances by Florence Cook in the early 1870s. He later became permanent resident secretary of the British National Association of Spiritualists.      Date: 19th century
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Grand Rounds Scenic Byway - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This 1873 portrait shows Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, premier American Poet and author of the famous epic poems "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha".
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Illustration showing Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911); British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew,
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Photograph of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) an Italian opera composer. Dated 19th Century
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Famous people in American history, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born 27 February 1807 in Portland) (Maine (now Maine) (died 24 March 1882 in Cambridge) (Massachusetts) was an American writer, lyricist, translator and playwright, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th-century scrapbook image
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Studio portrait of Frederick Douglass. 1875 - 1880. Cartes de visite, Photographs, Portraits. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans, Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, African American abolitionists, African American civil rights workers
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Frederick DOUGLASS, 1818-95, American abolitionist, writer and reformer, born into slavery, photographed c. 1879.
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