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Portrait of Swedish author August Strindberg. Year: 1912. Photographer: Sven Åsberg. Location: Stockholm.

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Millard Fillmore. Circa 1855-1865. By Mathew B. Brady.

Ida M. Tarbell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. c1904.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. about 1932. Photographer- Vincenzo Laviosa

Arthur Schopenhauer March 1859. By Johann Schäfer.

Chester Alan Arthur. Circa 1880. By Abraham Bogardus.

Portrait of George B. McClellan. Circa 1860-65. Most likely 1861. By Mathew Brady.

Ulysses S. Grant 22nd April 1865, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By Frederick Gutekunst. The black armband hanging from his sleeve may be a mourning band for President Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Probably taken while Lincoln's courtege traveled through Philadelphia.

President James Buchanan. Between circa 1860 and circa 1865. By Mathew Brady.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 9 June 1880. Photographed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Panov.

Portrait of Frederick Douglass. Circa 1879. By George Kendall Warren.

Portrait of Thomas Hardy, 1889. Woodburytype. By Herbert Rose Barraud.

Alfred Werner. Circa 1915. Unknown photographer.

Thomas Edison in lab with "Edison Effect" bulbs. Year: 1919. Location: West Orange, New Jersey.

Phineas T. Barnum, attributed to Mathew Brady Studio, c. 1860-1870, glass plate collodion negative.

President Lincoln & General George B. McClellan in the general's tent at Antietam, 3rd October 1862. Dissatisfied with General McClellan’s non-responsiveness after Antietam Abraham Lincoln went out to Maryland in October to meet with him. McClellan had a habit of making the commander in chief come to him, which Lincoln tolerated but also noted as a sign of the officer’s arrogance. Photographed by Alexander Gardner.

Portrait of general Robert E. Lee, officer of the Confederate Army. May 1869. By Levin Corbin Handy.

First attempt at selective colourisation

Portrait of Arthur Stanley Eddington. Prior to 1945. Photograph by Transocean (Photographic company, Berlin).

Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. Year: 1907. By Harris & Ewing.

Charles Baudelaire, 1861, printed 1877. Woodburytype. Photograph by Étienne Carjat.

Great, great Uncle Charles 'Charlie' McIntyre, 6th Battalion, The Black Watch, 1915

Alexander H. Stephens, Representative from Georgia, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait. Year: 1859. Photograph by Julian Vannerson.

Abraham Lincoln. February 9, 1864. By Anthony Berger.

Alexander Graham Bell. Circa 1904. By Frank Boteler.

Andrew Carnegie in his golf cottage neaer St. Andrew's golf links, Westchester County, New York, seated in a wicker chair holding The Independent magazine. 1911. Gelatin silver print

Jean Sibelius between 1940-45 at Ainola, Finland. By Santeri Levas.

A portrait of Dr. Paul Heyse. Year: 1870. By Friedrich Müller.

Portrait of Robert Herman Koch.

Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison. Year: 1870. By Anderson Studio.

Maxim Gorky, half-length portrait, facing front. Circa 1906. The image is possibly created by Herman Mishkin.

Allvar Gullstrand, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Circa 1890. Unknown photographer.

Photograph shows writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Created: between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925. Bain News Service, publisher.

Portrait of a Nihang or an Akali. Portrait of a Sikh warrior, also known as Nihang or Akali, wearing an elaborate conical turban, adorned with chakrams or war-quoits.

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President James Buchanan. Between circa 1860 and circa 1865. By Mathew Brady.

Cornelius Vanderbilt by Mathew Brady created between 1844 and 1860

P. T. Barnum. Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891). Date 1851

Colourisation test - Early morning @ home

Andrew Johnson, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with table and chair. Between 1865 and 1880. By Mathew Brady.

Another attempt at selective colourisation, taken at Belvedere Gardens, Mullingar

A portrait of Dr. Paul Heyse. Year: Between 1900 and 1914. By Frank Eugene.

Lucy Stone, circa 1866. Boston. George Kendall Warren Studio. Photographer Sumner B. Heald.

Third attempt at selective colourisation

Albert Einstein, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. C. 1945.