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Photographic portraits featuring prominent historical figures with distinguished expressions, emphasizing their roles and contributions in society.

Samuel F.B. Morse American Inventor of the Telegraph Engraving

Oscar-Claude Monet, 1840 - 1926, popularly known as Claude Monet. French Impressionist artist.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). French painter. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1889.

Portrait of the author Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Schapiro, Konstantin (1839-1900)

Anonymous, portrait of Victor Hugo after the painting of Léon Bonnat (dummy title), 1880. Draw on albumin paper. Houses of Victor Hugo Paris - Guernsey.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Tchaikovsky (1851 1926) Russian revolutionary. While studying in St. Petersburg, he joined a radical student group which would later be known as the Circle of Tchaikovsky after its most famous member. The group advocated revolutionary socialist ideals which formed the basis of the Narodnik movement.

Victor Hugo. Etienne Carjat & Co. (France, 1828-1906). France, 1876-1884. Photographs. Woodburytype

Germany, engraved portrait of German composer, pianist and conductor, Johannes Brahms

Francois Vincent Raspail -, Chemiker, Botaniker, Politiker, Goupil , Cie , photographer

Portrait of the poet Apollon Maykov (1821-1897), Photo studio Wesenberg

Charles Darwin, taken from a series of cigarette cards, 1935. Artist: Unknown

'Frederic Leighton', (1830-1896), 1st Baron Leighton, famous painter, 1894-1907. Artist: Unknown.

Victor-Marie Vicomte Hugo (born 26 February 1802 in Besancon, died 22 May 1885 in Paris) was a French writer and politician, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of Wilhelm Hans Grund

Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy, 1828 - 1910, a Russian writer and anarchist

Johannes Brahms 1833-1897, German composer. After a photography. Halbton., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not stated

Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912). Artist: Franz von Lenbach (German, Schrobenhausen 1836-1904 Munich). Dimensions: 30 x 24 1/4 in. (76.2 x 61.5 cm). Date: 1902.Luitpold of Bavaria was named Regent in June 1886, after his nephew, King Ludwig II, was declared mentally incompetent. During the twenty-six years of Luitpold's reign, Bavaria prospered, and Munich became a cultural capital of Europe. At the time Lenbach created this work, he was the most famous portrait painter in Germany. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of the Author Victor Hugo (1802-1885) by Walery, Stanislaw, Count (1830-1890)/The State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow/1879/Albumin Photo/France/Portrait

Stephanos Skouloudis (1838-1928), a Greek banker, diplomat and prime minister of Greece from 1915-1916

Eusebi Güell Bacigalupi, 1st Count of Güell, 1917. Author: PABLO AUDOUARD (1856-1918). EUSEBIO GÜELL Y BACIGALUPI.

John Alfred Langford (1823-1903), English antiquary, author and journalist. Date: 1860s

Kruger, Paul (1825-1904), líder de la resistencia boer y último presidente del Transvaal, en Sudáfrica. Grabado de 1902.

Professor Franciscus Donders (1818-89), Physiologist and Opthalmologist. Dating: 1888. Measurements: h 142 cm × w 95 cm; d 19 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Bramine Hubrecht.

Historical print, portrait of Franz Leopold von Ranke, 1795 - 1886, German historian, from the Illustrated History of German National Literature, by Gustav Koennecke, 1887

Leo Tolstoy. Moscow by Anonymous /State Museum of Leo Tolstoy, Moscow/1884-1885/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Henry Taylor. Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)

Thomas Carlyle 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India. Thomas Carlyle. Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815-1879 Kalutara, Ceylon). 1867. Albumen silver print. Photographs

CHARLES DARWIN Naturalist Date: 1809-1882

Ludwig Albert Ganghofer, 7 July 1855, 24 July 1920, a Bavarian writer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original, original date unknown

Portrait of the author Sergei T. Aksakov (1791-1859) by Bergner, Karl August /The State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow/1850s/Albumin Photo/Germany/Portrait

Portrait of the artist Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) by Karelin, Andrei Osipovich (1837-1906)/Museum of Photography History, Nizhni Novgorod/1870/Albumin Photo/Russia/Portrait

'John Ruskin', Victorian art critic, 1923. Artist: Unknown

John Ruskin, 1819-1900. English writer, art critic and reformer. From the book ""The International Library of Famous Literature"".Published in London 1900. Volume I.

Heinrich Hoffman (1809-1894), Poet & Neurologist 1889 Eugen Klimsch (1839-1896 German)

Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz, 1849 -1930. German Grand Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Nadar photograph (1820-1910). EPREOVE on albumin paper, album card, 1878. Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. 71161-42 Noyer, album card, French writer, book, hand, paint, hold, hold, tete, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, table, table

Anonymous. Last portrait of Victor Hugo before his death. Victor Hugo. Term to gelatino-bromide. April-May 1885. Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo, Hauteville House. 74025-19 Last, French writer, death, portrait

Sir Henry Parkes. Formerly Premier of New South Wales and the father of Australian Federation which was consummated 1st January 1901.

Kalman, Koloman, Tisza de Borosjeno et Szeged, 1830 - 1902, longtime prime minister of Hungary from 1875 to 1890, leading politician of Austria-Hungary, woodcut 1888

Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer, applied mathematician and autodidactic polymath, who was Professor of Mathematics in the U.S. Navy and at Johns Hopkins

Gabriel de la Landelle. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

ALEXANDRE RIBOT French statesman, photographed in 1916. Date: 1842 - 1923

Robert Browning, 1812-1889. English poet in 1861

Hilaire Belloc Seriously Ill:A recent and rare photograph of Mr. Hilaire Belloc, the world-famous man of letters, who is lying critically ill at nursing home in Guildford following an ***** in his home yesterday. Mr. Belloc, who is 82, was in his study when he stumbled from his chair and fell in the fireplane, suffering burns on his head and shoulder. This picture was taken at his home at *****, near Horsham, Sussex. July 15, 1953.

RUDOLPH CHRISTOPH EUCKEN German Writer of Historical Philosophy. Nobel Award for Literature, 1908. Date: 1846 - 1926

Johannes Brahms, (1833-1897), German composer. Halftone

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), German composer. After a photograph. Halftone, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834 - 1907); Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.

Historical engraving from 19th Century, portrait of William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878, American poet of Romanticism and editor of the New York Evening Post

Portrait of the composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Fellinger, Maria (1849-1925)

Karl Marx. Photo. 1872. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 - 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.

Charles François Gounod (1818-1893), compositor francés. Grabado de 1883.

DICKENS, CHARLES. ESCRITOR INGLES. 1812-1870. GRABADO COLOREADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

Thomas Combe in Cloak and Holding Mortar Board, from an album compiled by Sir John Everett Millais, Charles Dodgson (Daresbury, Cheshire, England, 1832 - 1898) 30 June 1860

Henry Taylor. Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born American inventor, 1907. Artist: Unknown

Giovanni Battista Grassi. Photograph, 1925.

Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, sociologist, economic historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. 1870

MARX , CARLOS. KARL MARX. REVOLUCIONARIO ALEMAN 1818-1883.

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.

Thomas Carlyle Made 1867 England. Photogravure, plate 8 from the album Lord Tennyson and his Friends (1893); edition 138/140 . Julia Margaret Cameron

'Lord Tennyson', c1880, (1911). Artist: Hubert von Herkomer.

Josiah Mason (1795-1881) English steel pen manufacturer and philanthropist. Engraving, 1875.

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922). Inventor and American physicist of British origin. He devised the fundamental scheme of telephony.

Robert Browning, 1812-1889. English poet in 1861, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, dit). "Victor Hugo, February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885". Silver gelatin-bromide draw. 1878-1878. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 200672-11

Portrait of Johannes Brahms

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of William Holman Hunt, 1827 - 1910, a British painter and Pre-Raphaelite

William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878, American writer, lawyer and journalist, historic wood engraving, ca. 1880

Portrait of the Indian writer and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

'Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) in 1873, Russian writer of novels and short stories and, in later life, of plays and essays.'

Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) the English poet and Poet Laureate in old age

Elie Metchnikoff. Photograph by Nadar.

Portrait of Father Michele da Carbonara, apostolic prefect in Eritrea, photograph by Guigoni and Bossi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXV, No 52, December 25, 1898.

Photograph of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) a Bengali polymath and Noble Prize Laureate for Literature. Dated 20th Century

Ernst Werner Siemens, from 1888 von Siemens, 13 December 1816, 1892, a German inventor, electrical engineer and industrialist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Karl Marx (1818-1883). German philosopher, economist and communist politician. Portrait. Engraving by Tomas Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

Portrait of John Birt Davies, 1873. Artist: William Thomas Roden. John Birt Davies was Birmingham's first Coroner from 1839 -75

Thomas Carlyle. Photograph by Elliott & Fry.

Portrait of a man by Atelier Koppitz, printed using rubber printing around 1920, showing formal pose and studio composition.

'Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) French writer, statesman, poet, playwright, novelist, exponent of the Romantic Movement in France.'

Karl Marx (1818-1883). Father of modern Communism. German political, social and economic theorist. Engraving

Player's cigarette card depicting Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (1851-1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation. Dated 20th Century

ROMANIA - 1960: shows Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828-1910 ROMANIA - CIRCA 1960: A stamp printed in Romania shows Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828-1910, circa 1960 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 6048135

Walter Whitman (1819 - 1892) American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). French writer. Colored engraving.

Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician. Date: 1833 - 1897

HOWELL COBB American politician, governor of Georgia, sided with the Confederacy during the war between the States. Date: 1815 - 1868

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist 1875

Photograph by Rudolf Koppitz showing a portrait of Josef Maria Eder, printed on silver gelatin paper on 18 December 1934, depicting the subject and facial features.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematician, physicist and engineer, 1877. Artist: Unknown

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, 8 February 1819, 25 June 1904, was a German writer and politician, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown

Karl Marx, 5 May 1818, 14 March 1883, was a German philosopher, economist, social theorist, political journalist, protagonist of the labour movement as well as critic of capitalism, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Photograph of William Morris (1834-1896)English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Photographed by Frederick Hollyer. Dated 1887

Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, sociologist, economic historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. 1865

Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville circa 1905-1912.

Karl Heinrich Marx photographed 1875. Marx (1818 14 March 1883), was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

PIERRE JOSEPH PROUDHON French journalist and socialist, regarded as the father of anarchism. Wrote extensively on political subjects. Date: 1809 - 1865

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD poet ('The Light of Asia') Date: 1832 - 1904

Thomas Henry Huxley. Photograph by Elliott & Fry.

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