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Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States. 1896. Benjamin Harrison, half-length studio portrait, facing slightly left
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. The short haircut was perhaps suggested by Lincoln's barber to facilitate the taking of his life mask by Clark Mills. Lincoln knew from experience how long hair could cling to plaster. An 1865 stereograph long attributed to Mathew Brady was actually taken by Lewis Emory Walker, a government photographer, about February 1865 and published for him by the E. & H. T. Anthony Co., of New York. Photographer: Lewis Emory Walker
Three-quarter front portrait of Johannes Brahms, turned and looking to the left. His beard is full; he is dressed in a jacket and a waistcoat from the buttonhole of which hangs a pocket watch. Print on albumen paper. Between 1852 and 1877. By Erwin Hanfstaengl.
John Wilkes Booth. 1862. Booth (1838 – 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln. By Charles DeForest Fredricks.
General Ulysses S. Grant at his Cold Harbor, City Point, Va., headquarters, June, 1864. By Egbert Guy Fowx.
Frances Clayton, disguised as a man. Circa 1865. Frances Louisa Clayton, also recorded as Frances Clalin, was an American woman who purportedly disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union Army in the American Civil war, though many historians now believe her story was likely fabricated. Photographed by Samuel Masury.
Sergeant John Clem of Co. C, 22nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in uniform, circa 1863-64, Nashville, Tennessee. Photographed by Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland.
Professor Thaddeus Lowe ascending in the Intrepid to observe the Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia. From the Peninsular Campaign, 31st May 1862. Please note that this image is a composite photograph. I've cobined the two stereographs to one, giving a wider view of the scene. Photographed by Mathew Brady.