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Victorian Era Men in Formal Attire

Portraits of men from the Victorian era, featuring classic poses in formal clothing, with a focus on their expressions and the details of their attire.

Hon. Gilbert

Rev. M. Haskell

Hon. Eugene Hale of Maine

Caleb Cushing

Dr. R.S. Foster

Hannibal Hamlin

Hon. Stephen Wallace Dorsey

Hon. Orris Sanford Ferry of Conn.

Abram Stevens Hewitt

Major General Lovell H. Rousseau, Union officer, bust portrait, facing front | Library of Congress

Hamilton, Hon. Andrew H., of Ind.

Hon. Wm. Mungen of Ohio

Gallaudet, Prof. Edward M.

George H. Boker

Jas. G. Berret

Viscount Milton

Coburn, Hon. Jos., M.C.

Unidentified Union officer, full-length portrait, standing, facing front / photographed by E. & J. Bruening, Indianapolis, Ind. | Library of Congress

L.D. Aguirill

Rev. J.M. Randall

Hon. Wm. Vandever

Hon. Wm. Evans Arthur of Ky.

Marcellin Berthelot (common name). Glass photographic plate. Museum of Romantic Life.

Jas. G. Berret

Judge S.J. Field

Rev. Hopkins

Hon. Henry Warner Slocum of N.Y.

Townsend, George Alfred

Jean Allard Jeancon, Union officer, half-length portrait, seated, facing front / Photographed by E. & J. Bruening, Indianapolis, Ind. | Library of Congress

Gov. Edward Solomon

Whitelaw Reid

Chilcott, Senator (Geo. M. Chilicott of Col)

Hon. Brutus J. Clay of Ky.

Nathaniel Banks, politician from Massachusetts, became the Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Feb. 2, 1856. He left school to work as a 'bobbin boy' in a cotton mill at 16. Through reading and Democratic Party politics he rose to prominence in Congress, and became the first anti-slavery Speaker of the House. He was elected by an anti-Democratic Party coalition of the American Party (Know Nothings), the disintegrating Whigs, and Northern Democrats. In 1857 Banks, running as a Republican, was elected governor of Massachusetts (BSLOC_2018_5_182)

Hon. Wm. G. Brownlow of Tenn.

Portrait of a Carpetbagger. Gen. Adelbert Ames was a Medal of Honor recipient in the US Civil War. As Radical Republican from Maine, he served as military governor, U.S. Senator, and civilian governor, in Reconstruction-era Mississippi. He was one of the last Republican governors driven out of office on March 29, 1876 (BSLOC_2019_6_17)

Hays, Hon. Charles M.C.

J.H.B. Latrobe

Wells Andrews Hutchins

Williams, Hon. George Henry of Oregon, Attorney General - Grant Admn.

Hon. Wm. Pinkney Whyte of Md.

Cameron, Senator James Donald of PA

A.W. Craven

J. Ambler Smith of Va. M.C.

Hon. Samuel J. Randall PA

Geo. D. Prentice

Sir Chas. Wyndham as "Capt. Dudley Smooth".

G.W. Elliott

Banning, Hon. Henry B. of Ohio

Jas. L. Wright

Smith O'Brian

Hon. Carey

Bishop S.A. McCroskey

Windom, Hon. William of Minn. Secty of Treasury - Garfield Adm.

Hon. Godlove Stein Orth of Indiana

J.K. Mortimer

Cason, Hon. Thos. Jefferson of Indiana

Hon. Wm. Vandever of Iowa

Rev. R.R. Booth

Rev. Canfield

Hon. Daniel E. Somes of Maine

Miranda

Frank Lawler

Judge Daly

John A. Andrews

Daguerreotype - Judge William King McCord, about 1850

Daniel Lord

Vaughn Williams

Rev. Quintard

Hereford, Hon. Frank of W. Va.

Miguel Gregorio de la Luz Atenógenes Miramón y Tarelo (November 17, 1831 June 19, 1867) was a Mexican conservative general who claimed the presidency of Mexico for the conservative faction during the presidential term of Benito Juárez.

Portrait of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832-1909) by Russian Photographer /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/Albumin Photo/Russia/Tsar's Family. House of Romanov

Rev. Canfield

Hon. Jacob Thompson of Miss.

Aze Klein, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Title devised by Library staff, In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ., no. 52, Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room. Klein, Aze, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Miguel Gregorio de la Luz Atenogenes Miramon y Tarelo (1831-1867) Mexican general. Politically Conservative, supporter of monarchy and of the privileges of the Roman Catholic church. President of Mexico 1859-1860, resigned and fled to Europe. Returned and supported Emperor Maximilian and was executed with him and General Mejia for treason.

Geo. Wm. Curtis

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Willem van Oranje (1840-1879) photographed in 1870. 1870

Hagans, Hon. John Marshall of W. Va

Hon. DeWeese

Sunini

Dr. Henry Boyington Smith

Edward Thoner. .

General Thomas Ewing, U.S.A.

Frank Lawler

Hon. Chas. J. Faulkner

C.B. Barclay

Rev. R.R. Booth

Gen. Jefferson Davis, U.S.A.

C.B. Barclay

Thomas B. Thorp

Rev. W. Holston

The last portrait of Albert, Prince Consort, 1861. Artist: Vernon Heath

Bishop Cox of Baltimore

Plumb, Hon. P.B. of Kansas (Senator)

CSA Colonel Adam R. "Stovepipe" Johnson | Library of Congress

Hon. Wm. Porcher Miles of S.C.

G.P.A. Healy

Reid, Whitelaw, Minister to England

Prince-President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1852. Artist: Unknown

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