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Illustrations of prominent men in the 19th century, highlighting their distinguished attire and societal roles, displayed artistically.

Engraved portrait of Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), the English Astronomer Royal, pictured in 1858.     Date: 20 March 1858
Engraved portrait of Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), the English Astronomer Royal, pictured in 1858. Date: 20 March 1858
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Portrait of Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Priest of the Church of England, university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. Associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college and forming labour cooperatives. Friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin. United Kingdom, England. Europe
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WILL CARLETON American poet, author of such  classics as 'Over the hills  to the Poor House'       Date: 1845 - 1912
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Portrait of Benito Juarez, President of Mexico
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Emile Littre (1801-1881). French lexicographer and philosopher. Known for his Dictionnaire de la langue francaise. Engraving by Paris. Spanish and American illustrations, 1872.
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Jose Mariano Michelena (1772-1852). Mexican military officer and politician. Mexican engraving, 1885. Colored.
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DAVID DAVIS American lawyer, jurist and  statesman, active in securing  Lincoln's nomination.       Date: 1815 - 1886
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Pascual Madoz Ib°±ez (1806 ‚Äì 1870), Spanish politician, statistician. Colored engraving by Paris. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana,1870.
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Hamilton Fish (1808-1893). American statesman and politician. Portrait. Engraving. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1870.
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Benjamin D'Israeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881, British statesman and author, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, 10 March 1788, 26 November 1857, was a Prussian poet, novelist, dramatist, literary critic, translator and anthologist, Poland, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known, Europe
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Antoni Brusi i Ferrer, periodista y editor, propietario del Diario de Barcelona.
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Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of William Lloyd Garrison, 1805 - 1879, an American writer and campaigner for the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
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Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish writer and storyteller, best known for his fairy tales, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Photographic portrait of an aged Southern statesman. Dated 19th Century
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), c1880. English statesman, moral philosopher and philanthropist and factory reformer. He piloted a number of reforming acts through Parliament including the factory acts of 1847, 1850 and 1859 resulting in a 10-hour working day, and the Coal Mines Act of 1842 which outlawed the employment of women and of children under 13 underground. From 'The Modern Portrait Gallery'. (London c1880).  Tinted lighthograph.
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Thomas Hart Benton, 1782, 1858, US politician, Illustration from Gallery of Historical Portraits, published around 1880, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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ARGELLES, AgustÕn (1776-1843). Spanish liberal politician and orator. Portrait of Federico Jim_nez. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Madrid Atheneum.
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Oscar Wilde(1856-1900), Irish playwright, author and celebrity.
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Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch (1806-1880). Spanish dramatist. He was the Director of the National Library of Spain until he retired in 1875. Portrait. Engraving.
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Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov (1883 - 1938) Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, Soviet politician and military leader and member of the Left Opposition.
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Salvatore PETITO, Italian actor from Naples famed for the role of Pulcinella
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THE EARL OF ABERDEEN (MOVER OF THE ADDRESS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS), UK, 1876
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EUGENE VICTOR DEBS American socialist, founder of  Industrial Workers of the  World, periodically imprisoned  for offences displeasing to  the Establishment.     Date: 1855 - 1926
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President John Tyler 1841.  10th President of the United States. Charles Fenderich
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Moltke  a clip from the German press stuck to the album's card. Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800 1891)  Prussian general and Feld Marshal, reformer of the Prussian and then imperial army. He also showed artistic passions. Monogramista E.H.X.A.
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The late William Wood ,
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David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish History
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August Graf von Platen (1796-1835), poet, steel engraving, before 1880
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Dollinger, Johann Ignaz von (Bamberg, 1799-Munich, 1890). German theologian and historian.
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881, was a Conservative British statesman and successful novelist. Twice, in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, he held the office of British Prime Minister, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original
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Plenipotentiaries at the Peace Conference: The Earl of Clarendon (England), Baron de Bourqueney (France), 1856. 'Well versed in the politics of Europe and of England, and with every phase of the present negotiations, no better guarantee could be given that the rights of Great Britain and the interests of Europe in general will be well cared for at the Conferences at Paris than the appointment of George William Frederick Villiers, Earl of Clarendon as Plenipotentiary of Great Britain...Baron de Bourqueney...Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary of the Emperor Napoleon III. at Vienn
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Retrato de Joan Güell i Ferrer, 1864. Foment del Treball Nacional de Barcelona.
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Sir John Laird-Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, 1811-1879, Governor-General of India. Painted by DJPound after a photograph by Mayall. From the book The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages, Volume 1, published in London 1860, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated
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Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald, 19 October 1792 -18 September 1848, was a Prussian Major General, digital improved reproduction of an original 19th century print
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Portrait of a.j.l.m. Lux, founder of the Vincentius association in the Netherlands. .
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890) in old age. British scholar and theologian. Oxford Movement. Converted to Roman Catholicism 1845: Cardinal 1879. Author of 'The Dream of Gerontius'. Engraving
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Leopold Count von Thun und Hohenstein, Leo von Thun-Hohenstein, 7 April 1811 - 17 December 1888, was an Austrian politician, especially Minister of Culture and Minister of Education, and author. He was a reformer of education and one of the fathers of political Catholicism, Painting by August Eisenmeyer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the time
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Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni, 7. Dezember 1863, 2. August 1945, war ein italienischer Komponist, der vor allem für seine Opern bekannt war, Histori...
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Historical print from the 19th century, portrait of Victorien Sardou, 1831 - 1908, a French playwright
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09/19/1909. Dr. Brochard. Illustrious Doctor, He was one of the most Enthusiastic Protagonists of Protective Ideas in France.
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Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Friedrich Rueckert or Freimund Raimar, Reimar or Reimer, 1788 - 1866, a German poet, translator and founder of Oriental studies in Germany
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