Horace Greeley. ca 1860-1865

Very nice colourisation of this famous B&W photo by 'Word War II Aircraft' site.

Photograph of Abraham Lincoln. 1859. Please note that the face has been digitally improved. Not altered. Unknown photographer.

Portrait of president James Abram Garfield. Circa 1881. From Brady-Handy collection.

BEFORE COLOURISATION

Portrait of general Robert E. Lee, officer of the Confederate Army. March 1864. By Julian Vannerson.

Thomas Hardy. Taken no later than 1921.

Sigrid Undset at work at Bjerkebæk (Undset's home, now part of Maihaugen museum). 1st July 1923. Photograph by Anders Beer Wilse.

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Mezzotint after a Daguerreotype of former US President, Andrew Jackson, half length portrait, seated, facing left. 5th April 1845. By Mathew Brady.

Grover Cleveland. Year: c. 1885. Unknown photographer. Albumen silver print

Jefferson Davis. 1860. By Mathew Brady.

I have used selective colourisation on this photo- but it didn't make much of a difference, so I created another version of this photo using a sepia tone.

Portrait of Sir Henry Joseph Wood. Bain News Service, publisher.

Portrait of Richard Wagner. Year: c. 1873 - 1883. By Franz Hanfstaengl.

Portrait of Lyman Frank Baum. Year 1908. By Dana Hull.

Richard Wagner circa 1860. Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl. Note: The face has been digitally enhanced to sharpen details.

Sociologist, suffragette, social worker, philosopher, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, in 1924 or 1926 (the way the date is written (mirror image, at top of the TIFF version) is probably 3-2-26, but could be 3-2-24. Publisher Bain News Service.

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Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946. May still need personality release. By William P. Gottlieb.

Richard Strauss between 1913-1917. Photographed by Harris & Ewing.

Jean Sibelius. Around 1890. Photographed by Hjalmar Sjöman.

Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum. 1851.

Ezra Loomis Pound. Circa 1913. By Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Ernest Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, Cuba 1946.

Calvin Coolidge. between ca. 1915 -1920

Portrait of Richard Wagner. Year: c. 1873 - 1883. By Franz Hanfstaengl.

Portrait of Anton Chekhov. Year: 1902. Photo: Opits, Moscow / Artistic establishment A.F. Marksa, St. Petersburg.

Portrait of Charles Dickens. Year: 1867. By J. Gurney & Son, photo., N.Y.

Edgar Allan Poe 1848. By Samuel W. Hartshorn. The “Whitman” daguerreotype was taken in Providence, Rhode Island in November of 1848 by the studio of Samuel Masury and S. W. Hartshorn. It’s the only known likeness Poe commissioned himself, speculated to be an engagement gift to Sarah Helen Whitman. She likely accompanied him to this sitting. Poe is 39 years old. Wearing his old military frock coat and glaring at us with his piercing stare from a three quarter angle, Poe considered this image the best likeness he ever had.

Portrait of Lyman Frank Baum. Year 1908. By Dana Hull.

William T. Sherman. Year: c. 1890. By George Collins Cox.

William T. Sherman. Year: c. 1860-70. Photographer: Mathew Brady Studio.

Portrait of Swedish author August Strindberg. Year: 1881. Photographer: Robert Roesler, Stockholm.

Harry S. Truman. An official portrait. Since an official portrait, my guess is taken between 1945 to 1953.

No selective colourisation. It just turned out this way. It does look as if the foreground was pasted over the background.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain circa 1942.

Portrait of Lyman Frank Baum. Year 1908. By Dana Hull.

General Stonewall Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 26, 1863, seven days before his mortal wounding.

Jules Verne c. 1873 - in or before 1878. Photographed by Félix Nadar.

Robert Kajanus 1910s. By Carl Klein.

Same picture different colourisation

Clara Barton. c. 1904

Portrait of Thadeus Reichstein. Circa 1937.