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Collection of black and white portraits of early 20th-century men in formal attire, displaying a mix of expressions and poses, with a vintage photographic style.

Alva Adams
Alva Adams
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Supreme Court Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar ca. early 1900s.
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Sousa
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Ferreira, Prime Minister of Portugal, portrait bust
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Judge W.W. Foster in judicial robe
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Rev. Henry H. Proctor. 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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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ca. early 1900s.
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President Woodrow Wilson portrait 1912
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Prof. George D. Herron
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William Calvin Chase, lawyer and editor of "Washington Bee.". Portraits, Illustrations. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Slavery , United States, Washington (D.C.), Editors, Lawyers
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Bishop Whitaker
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John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907), General in Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and Senator from Alabama who was a Proponent of Jim Crow Laws, and Racial Segregation, Half-Length Portrait, 1870's
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Elijah McCoy.. Photographs, Portraits. 1913. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African American inventors, Freedmen, McCoy, Elijah, 1844-1929, Lubrication systems
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Photographic portrait of Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914).  Leader of the Liberal Unionists, he formed an alliance with the Conservative government in 1886 and was given responsibility for British policy during the Boer War.  A strong social reformer, he was also an Imperialist.  His tarriff reforms, promoting the preferential treatment of colonial imports split the party with the pro-free trade Liberal party winning the 1906 general election.     Date: July 11th 1914
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Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), Austrian American immunologist discovered human blood existed in different groups, which he first identified as A, B, and O blood types in 1901. He completed his blood research work at Rockefeller Institute in the 1920s. Until his breakthroughs, many blood transfusion recipients died from immune reactions caused by incompatible blood types. Landsteiner received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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The 22nd and 24th President, his name was Grover Cleveland. March 02, 1950.
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Thomas A. Edison by Cora Burghard in the lobby of the Lee County Bank, Fort Myers, Fla. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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William Still.. Portraits, Photographs, Illustrations. 1897. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African Americans , History, African Americans , Biography, Underground railroad, African American abolitionists, African American authors, African American businesspeople, Still, William, 1821-1902
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Indian freedom fighter, gopal krishna gokhale, india, asia, 1910 Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox
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