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Historical Portraits of Notables

Black-and-white portraits of 19th-century figures in formal attire, showcasing distinct styles and poses indicative of their era.

Hon. Chas. West Kendall of NEV
Hon. Chas. West Kendall of NEV
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Rev. Eleazar Williams
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Forney, Hon. Wm. H. of Ala.
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Senator Hoar of Mass.
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Father Matthews
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Smith O'Brian
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Bishop Odenheimer
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C. Fisher
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James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, KT, GCB, PC (20 July 1811 - 20 November 1863), was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He was the Governor General of the Province of Canada, a High Commissioner in charge of opening trades with China and Japan, and Viceroy of India.
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Hon. Sempronius Hamilton Boyd
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Rev. P.H. Fowler
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Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States c1848.
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Secretary of State William H. Seward, circa 1863
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Butler, Hon. Andrew P. Butler
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Hon. Cassius Clay
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J.G. Carlisle
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Williams, Hon. (Senator)
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Alexander Millener | Library of Congress
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Wilson, Hon. M.C.
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Portrait, Captain Joseph Peabody, 1757-1844, by Charles Osgood , Portrait paintings, Peabody, Joseph, 1757-1844. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer. Photograph by Ernest Charles Eugène Appert (1830-1890), 1877. Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. 33547-1 French writer, hand returned, coat
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Hon. Cassius Clay
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Jacob Collamer (1791-1865), American Politician from Vermont, served in U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, three-quarter length Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, early 1860's
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Rev. Lyman Beecher
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Hon. John Conness
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Aze Klein, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left | Library of Congress
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Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, 1848
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Hon. Hamilton Fish
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Jno. Gilbert
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Judge Daly
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Swayne, Judge Noah H. Born in Culpeper Co. Va. Dec. 7, 1804 (U.S. Supreme Court) Received good education in Waterford, Va. appointed to Supreme Court by Lincoln 1862
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Hon. Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio
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Hon. Cassius Clay
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Chancellor Ferris
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Boguemil Danson
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Reverdy Johnson
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Portrait, Charles Albert Read, from painting at City Hall by J. Harvey Young , Portrait paintings. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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Christopher (Kit) Carson, 1868, in a photograph by Mathew Brady Studio. The portrait was made in Washington, DC when Carson escorted several Ute Chiefs to plead with President Andrew Johnson for assistance to their tribe. Carson died shortly after he returned to his farm in New Mexico (BSLOC_2019_9_187)
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Portrait of Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) an American politician, jurist and Chief Justice of the United States of America. Dated 20th Century
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Franz Joseph I of Austria ca. early 1900s.
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Portrait, Judge Joseph Story, 1779-1845, by Charles Osgood, at the Essex Institute , Portrait paintings, Story, Joseph, 1779-1845. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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Packer, Hon. John B. of Pa. M.C.
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Gilman Marston, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in uniform | Library of Congress
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WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE English politician MP sitting in a chair Date: 1809 - 1898
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Bishop (Wm. H.) Odenheimer
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Bishop D.A. Goddsell, portrait bust
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William McKinley. seated facing left, between 1870 and 1880
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Lord Northcliffe
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Portrait of John Quincy Adams between 1855 and 1865. John Quincy Adams 1767 1848) was the sixth President of the United States (18251829)
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Portrait, Photograph, Horace Ingersoll, taken 1901 ,. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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"Peter Parley" Goodrich
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Portrait of a Gentleman Moses B. Russell Possibly portraying Edward Brinley of Boston, an identity that cannot be confirmed.. Portrait of a Gentleman 15175
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Hon. Francis B. Cutting of N.Y.
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Lord Napier
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Payne, Hon. H.B. of Ohio
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Joseph Henry (1797-1878), American physical scientist whose work on the electromagnetic relay was the basis of the electrical telegraph, invented separately in the 1830's by American, Samuel Morse, and British, Charles Wheatstone. 1860s portrait.
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Prof. Robert Weir
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Prof. Johnson
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Portrait of a man, believed to be Joseph Bonaparte, c1860 (1955). Artist: Unknown
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Portrait Brukspatron Anders Wedberg. A Wedberg (1795 - 1864) founded his company in Nora in 1824. He Blef owner of Hammarby Mill, Stafsjö and Virån's mill and Flögfors Kopparhyt.se Even Morkantil calendar for 1855.
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Portrait, Jonathan Goodhue , Portrait paintings. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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Capt. French Forrest, C.S.N.
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Young John D. Rockefeller
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Judge John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the Supreme Court. He was the lone dissenter to the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld he constitutionality of racial segregation. ca. 1865-1880