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Henry Ford, leaving the White House after calling on the president. In 1927, Ford came to Washington to attend a dinner given the preceding night at the Pan American Union by Secretary of Interior Hubert Work in honor of President and Mrs. Coolidge. By National Photo Company.
Helen Keller, no. 8. Photograph showing Helen Keller, half-length portrait, facing right, seated with hand on braille book in her lap as she smells a rose in a vase. Circa 1900-1910. By Whitman Studio.
Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States. 1896. Benjamin Harrison, half-length studio portrait, facing slightly left
Photograph of Abraham Lincoln. 1859. Please note that the face has been digitally improved. Not altered. Unknown photographer.
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
Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, looking right. Created / Published: 1860, possibly spring or summer, printed later. Unknown photographer.
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.
Dr. Jonathan Letterman (seated, left) and his medical staff sit outside an Army of the Potomac tent in Warrenton, Virginia, in November 1862. By Alexander Gardner.
Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Federal encampment on Pamunkey River. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph created in May 1862 by James Gibson. Please note that this image is a composite of two images from the original stereograph. The left and right images have been merged to create this image.
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.
A Union gun crew mans The "Dictator" mortar, September, 1864, around Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war. Photographed by David Knox.
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.
Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. Circa 1909.