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Historical Portrait Photos
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before 1849 Edgar A. Poe - NARA - 528345 (cropped)
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off
ca.1850 Unidentified woman - daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes
1853-1860 Wendell Phillips by Brady
1855-1865 Admiral David Farragut
Photograph of Gustave Doré by Nadar, between 1856 and 1858
1860 Captain John W. Tarleton by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
1860 Daniel Craig McCallum
1860 - 1865 David Dixon Porter
1860 - 1865 Admiral John Dahlgren
1860s Jacques Offenbach by Nadar
1860-1865 Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard
1860-1865 John Milton Brannan by the Studio of Mathew Brady - NPG 81 M465
1861-1865 Unidentified young soldier in Confederate infantry uniform
1862 Étienne Carjat, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire
1862 James Birdseye McPherson c. 1862 by Barr & Young
c. 1863 Felix Nadar in the basket of a balloon, self-portrait, btv1b532323066
1863 Alfred Waud by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
between 1863 and 1865 Sgt. Samuel Smith, African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters
1864 Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar
1864 Cabinet Card of Sojourner Truth - Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
1864 David Livingstone by Thomas Annan
1864-1877 Joseph Bazalgette by Lock & Whitfield
1865 Grell by Janke - Black and white
c. 1865 George N. Barnard by Mathew Brady
1865 Composer Rossini 1865 by Carjat
1865 - 1880 John Lorimer Worden - Mathew Brady
1865-1880 William Tecumseh Sherman
1867 John Herschel by Julia Margaret Cameron (Metropolitan Museum of Art copy, restored) levels
1868 Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1868
1868 Photograph of Frederic Edwin Church by Napoleon Sarony
1869 Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
1869 Levin C. Handy - General Robert E. Lee in May 1869
c. 1869 Self-portrait of Jeremiah Gurney
between 1869 and 1874 Jeremiah Gurney - Photograph of Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa
Asher B. Durand by Abraham Bogardus
1870 Jasper Francis Cropsey by Napoleon Sarony
1870 H.J. Whitlock - Photograph of Arthur Sullivan
1870 Caroline Hill as Mirza in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
1870 Julia Margaret Cameron MET DP114480 - Restoration
1870 Sojourner Truth, 1870 (cropped, restored)
1870 Christine Nilsson Nadar
1870 Louisa May Alcott, c. 1870 - Warren's Portraits, Boston
1870 Batak Warriors 60011135 edit
c. 1870 Victoria Claflin Woodhull by Mathew Brady - Oval Portrait
c. 1870 Edmonia Lewis by Henry Rocher
1870 Édouard Manet, en buste, de face - Nadar
1870 - 1880 President Rutherford Hayes
1870 - 1880 Lucretia Mott, signed photo, by F. Gutekunst
1873, 1878 or 1889 Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, close up, with slight smile by Nadar
1874 Edward Alexander Bouchet Yale College class of 1874
1875 - 1883 Atelier Nadar - Galli-Marié in Bizet's Carmen
between 1875 and 1895 Jacques Isnardon, Vaudeville
1875 - 1895, probably after 1880 Georges Ernest Boulanger by Atelier Nadar
1875 - 1895, probably after 1880 Maréchal Canrobert by Nadar
1876 Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat
ca. 1878 Thomas Edison with phonograph
ca. 1879 Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite
Blanche Roosevelt by Mora
Blanche Roosevelt by Napoleon Sarony
by 1880 Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
1880 Noel, Léon, Nadar, Gallica
1880 Barbier, Jules, Nadar, Gallica
c. 1880 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood
c. 1880 Edward Mitchell Bannister by Gustine L. Hurd
1880-1909 Charles Follen McKim
1880-1900 Mary Church Terrell - cph.3b47842
1881 James Abram Garfield, photo portrait seated
c. 1881 Henry Highland Garnet by James U. Stead
ca. 1881-1887 Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood - American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Restoration
ca.1882 Kingdavidkalakaua dust
1882 Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated
1882 Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946), M.D. 1882, portrait photograph by H.D. Carns & Co; Image ID 27593990
1882 or 1883 Elliott & Fry - photograph W. S. Gilbert
1883 Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
1883 Émile-Arthur Thouar by Eugène Pirou
1884 Jules Verne by Étienne Carjat
1884 Thomas Mundy Peterson by William R. Tobias
c. 1885 Amanda Berry Smith by T. B. Latchmore
1885 or 1886 Geraldine Ulmar in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
1885-1891 Edmund Beecher Wilson between about 1885 and 1891
1886 Frances Folsom Cleveland, by Charles Milton Bell
1887 William John Macquorn Rankine by Thomas Annan
1888-1900 Old peasant with dagger and long smoking pipe, Mestia, Svanetia, Georgia (Republic)
1889 Blind man carrying a paralysed man
between 1889 and 1899 Séverine, debout, un poing sur la hanche - Nadar
1880s Sergius Stepniak by Elliott & Fry
1880s Chester A. Arthur by Abraham Bogardus
unknown perhaps c. 1890 Michael Ancher portrætfoto 2 - Restoration
c. 1890 Hermann Amand Schwarz (1843-1921) by Louis Zipfel
Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox
Helen Hunt Jackson by Charles F. Conly
c. 1890 Carlos, Duke of Madrid by Nadar
1890 Louis-DelphinOdobeyCadet
1890 Charles Gounod by Nadar
1890 Charcot Jean-Martin Gallica Nadar, French neurologist
1890-1910 William H. Crook photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston
1890-1910 Mattie Edwards Hewitt
1891 Liliuokalani, c. 1891
between 1891 and 1914 La Belle Otero
1893 Fausta Labia, porträtt - SMV - H5 028 - Restoration
ca. 1893 Ida B. Wells-Barnett
1895 Espinasse père - Fonds Trutat
1890-1900 Elderly Irish woman at a spinning wheel.
1893 Portrait of Charles Nettleton 1893 Talma & Co. H3995
1894 Harriet Jacobs’s only known formal portrait
1895 Louis Pasteur, photo by Paul Nadar
c. 1895 Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
c. 1895 Ethel Reed (ca. 1895)
between 1895 and 1905 Dr. Aletta Jacobs, Dutch suffragette, first female Dutch university graduate and first Dutch female physician
1896 Frances Benjamin Johnston
1896 Mrs. Fiske, "Love finds the way" - Zaida Ben Yusuf. LCCN2006677585 - Restoration, levels tweaked
between 1896 and 1901 Benjamin Franklin Tilley - NH 67313
1898-1914 Costumes and characters, etc. Girls of Ramallah
1899 Johann Strauss II by Fritz Luckhardt
Thorsten Nordenfelt. Svensk ubåtspionjär
Pedro II of Brazil by Nadar
Paul Nadar, "Autoportrait au bureau de l'atelier, rue d'Anjou"
Self portrait of Edward Sheriff Curtis
Claude Debussy by Atelier Nadar
Alberto Santos-Dumont by Nadar
Ottmar Mergenthaler, at approximately 45 years old
Machado de Assis by Marc Ferrez.jpg/2
Queen Victoria surrounded by her family - Coburg, 1894 (1 of 2)
ca.1900 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ca.1900 Robert Peary (1856–1920), US Navy rear admiral, engineer and North Pole explorer
1900 Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi, Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1900) - Archivio storico Ricordi FOTO003107 - Restoration
1900 Three Piegan (Blackfeet) chiefs
1900 Camille Saint-Saëns in 1900 by Pierre Petit
1900 Philippe Chaperon by Atelier Nadar
1900 - 1906 A Southern chain gang
1900-1910 Autoportrait de Félix Nadar
1901 Voltairine de Cleyre (Age 35)
1901 Anna Fernqvist, rollporträtt - SMV - H1 122 - Restoration
presumably between 1901 and 1919 Albert Reiss LOC ggbain-25651
between 1901 and 1908 William Harvey Carney by James E Reed - Restoration
1902 Virginia Woolf in 1902
1902 Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos - Photograph A from the Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 21
1903 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston
1903 Alice Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston
1903 Cree Indian (HS85-10-13885) edit
1904 Dagestani man and woman
1904 A Jicarilla Man, 1904, Edward S. Curtis (sepia restored)
c. 1904 C.M. Gilbert. - John Hay
1905 The native mode of grinding coffee, Palestine.
c. 1905 Lucy Arbell photographed by Paul Nadar
1905 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
1905-1913 Hollow Horn Bear LCCN 2016858434 (2) (cropped)
1906-1912 Ray Strachey, between 1906 and 1912
1907 George Foster Peabody
1907 W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907
1907 Inuit Woman 1907 Crisco edit 2
1907 Lilly Walleni in Daria at Kungliga Operan 1907 - SMV - NV059
between 1907 and 1912 Nelly Martyl by Jean Reutlinger
1908 Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.jpg/2
1908 Salote Tupou III of Tonga in 1908
1908 Holger Drachmann, fra Klæbels samling - Restoration
1908 John Campbell Dancy, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C.
1909 Magna Lykseth in Tristan och Isolde at Kungliga Operan 1909 - SMV - GL164
1909 Russian peasant girls (Prokudin-Gorskii)
1909 Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin by T. & R. Annan & Sons
Minnie Tittell Brune as the Duke of Reichstadt in Edmond Rostand's play L'Aiglon - Talma & Co
Ernest Shackleton before 1909
Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros
Chief Joseph by Edward Sheriff Curtis
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Cabinet card of William Howard Taft by Pach Brothers - Cropped to image
Percival Lowell by James E. Purdy.jpg/2
Keir Hardie by George Grantham Bain
ca. 1910 Mignon Nevada as “Ophelia”
ca.1910 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1910 Hubertine Auclert 1910
1910 George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration.jpg/2
c. 1910-12 Emily Wilding Davison by Andrew William Dron
1910-20 Ida Husted Harper photograph by Aime Dupont
1910-20 Dean Emma M. Gillett
1910-20 Emma Smith DeVoe by James & Bushnell - No photographer stamp
1910-20 Harris & Ewing - Helena Hill Weed
Between 1910 and 1922 Mary Pickford
Between 1910 and 1929 Séeberger, Petites musiciennes de rue - CMN
ca. 1911 Aviator Hélène Dutrieu seated in her airplane.
1911 Russian Imperial Family
before 1912 Florence Earle
unknown, before 1912 Maresuke Nogi, 近世名士写真 其1
before 1913 Carrie Chapman Catt - National Woman's Party Records
1913 George V and Nicholas II in Berlin, 1913
1913 Shoeless Joe Jackson, 1913
1913 Emmeline Pankhurst (1913)
1913 Professeur Metchnikoff, portrait du scientifique dans un laboratoire de recherche
between 1913 and 1915 Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict by Edmonston, Washington, D.C.
between 1913 and 1917 Iris Calderhead
1914 Paul von Hindenburg (1914) von Nicola Perscheid
1914 Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937), social reformer and suffragist
1914 Hattie Caraway by Harris & Ewing, 1914
1914 Michel Fokine, Arlequin
between 1914 and 1915 Portrait of Mary Pickford, signed (CHS-2292) digital restoration
1915 Hazel MacKaye and dog by Harris & Ewing
1915 Alice Paul (1915) by Harris & Ewing
1915 Portrait of Paul Trappen
ca. 1915 Alice C. Evans, circa 1915
unknown, before 1916 Portrett av Gina Krog (6276081582) - Restoration
1917 Jeannette Rankin, Bain News Service, facing front
1917 Eleftherios Venizelos 1917.jpg/2
ca. 1917 Teresa Carreño at the piano
1917 Rosa Raisa (1917) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002701 - Restoration
1918 Lewis Wickes Hine, The charter member of the Red Cross Boy Scout Troop Paris, September 1918 - Library of Congress
1918 Prokofieff (i.e. Prokofiev) LCCN2014708419 Crop 2
ca. 1918-1919 John Meintz, punished during World War I
1919 Margaret D. Foster, in Lab, 4 October 1919
Lord Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany by Morrall-Hoole Studios
Abigail Scott Duniway registering to vote
Genevieve Clark (Thomson) - Bain News Service (cropped)
c. 1920 Helen Keller circa 1920 - restored
1921 Nguyen Aïn Nuä'C (Ho-Chi-Minh)
1921 Charles Henry Turner at Sumner High School, St. Louis, Mo. Aug. 9, 1921
1923 Jean Cocteau b Meurisse
1924 Walter Johnson and Calvin Coolidge shake hands
1924 Bea Kyle Standing Fire Engine and Pickle 1924
1925 Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
1929 Portrait of two young Balinese dancers
1929 Inupiat Family from Noatak, Alaska - Edward S. Curtis
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus by Henri Manuel
P.L. Travers as Titania in a production with Alan Wilkie
1931 Rosalind Goodrich Bates (1931)
c. 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt - Google Art Project
1936 Dorothea Lange
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1936 Migrant Mother by D. Lange
1936 Bessie Smith (1936) by Carl Van Vechten
Child in Shack Town by Dorothea Lange, 1936, 8b38490a
Allie Mae Burroughs print.jpg/2
Son of farmer in dust bowl area, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 8b38282
Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), Physicist - Restoration1
Max Planck by Hugo Erfurth 1938cr - restoration1
Nude (Charis, Santa Monica)
1941 Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph
1941-1947 Portrait of Henri Frenay, head and shoulders ppmsca.13371 edit
1942 Dorie Miller - Restoration, full
1942 A member of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) serving with a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun battery, December 1942. TR452
1942 1942 photograph of a carpenter at work
1942 Gordon Parks, American Gothic , portrait of government cleaning woman Ella Watson
1943 Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in
Tehran .
1943 Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner, Women's Airforce Service Pilots, NARA-542191
Unknown, before 1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff LOC 30160 cropped
1944 General Douglas MacArthur
1945 "Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA - 535942
1946 Sarah Vaughan - William P. Gottlieb - No. 1.jpg/2
1946 Mary Lou Williams (Gottlieb 09231)
1946 Django Reinhardt (Gottlieb 07301)
1946 Shirley Graham Du Bois
1946 Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
1946-1948 Billy Strayhorn, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948
1947 Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947
1947 Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 06191)
1947 Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (LOC, 5020400274, cropped)
1948 Art Tatum, Vogue Room 1948 (Gottlieb)
1949 William Grant Still by Carl Van Vechten
c. 1950 Ansel Adams and camera
c. 1950 Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell
1954 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
1954 Pauline Kirby (5493900611)
c. 1956 Lies Noor, Djakartawood
1956 Althea Gibson in 1956 by Fred Palumbo (NYWTS)
1959 Antonio Segni and Konrad Adenauer
c. 1959 Aminah Cendrakasih, by Tati Photo Studio
Veronica Lake still, Paramount Pictures
Elvis Presley, Modern Screen, June 1958
Marilyn Monroe photo pose Seven Year Itch
Albert Einstein sticks his tongue
1960 Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico (by Alberto Korda)
c- 1960 Indriati Iskak in a promotional still
1965 Eugene F. Kranz at his console at the NASA Mission Control Center
1965 Kurt Vonnegut (by Bernard Gotfryd)
1966 Katherine Johnson at NASA
1967 Dorothy Houston Jacobson
1967 Sharon Tate, still from Valley of the Dolls
about 1967 to 1979 Rep. Barbara Jordan
1968 Dorothy Anstett, Miss USA
1970 Black Panther convention
1977 Mary Jackson in a wind tunnel with a model at NASA Langley
1978 En attendant Godot, Festival d'Avignon
c. 1979-1983 Senador Tancredo Neves
c. 1976-1979 Lauren Bacall by Bernard Gotfryd
c. 1970 Tony Tornado e Sílvio Santos restored
Phyllis Diller by Allan Warren
1982 Stefan Heym, by Marcel Antonisse
1984 Steve Jobs and Macintosh computer
1984 Portrait of Italian writer Umberto Eco
1998 Tanja Vienonen on cover of Eeva
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