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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.
Frederick Douglass January 26, 1874. By John Howe Kent. Albumen silver print. Additional permission required from George Eastman Museum. ID: 1992.1048.0001
Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon. Circa 1902. By George Charles Beresford.
Walt whitman. ca. 1860-65. Grey eyes. No description about his eye colour found on the web. Contemporary paintings have shown blue, grey versions. By Mathew Brady.
General William Tecumseh Sherman, who sits stern-faced wearing a black mourning armband in a formal portraits after President Lincoln’s assassination. 1865. By Mathew Brady.
Eugène Marcel Prévost (1 May 1862 – 8 April 1941) was a French author and dramatist. By Bain News Service, publisher. No date.
Portrait of Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain" seated in chair reading a book. Ca. 1907. Photographer: Underwood & Underwood. Note: The photo frame on the wall depicts a poster of the movie "There Will Be Blood". Wallpaper has been improvised too.
Mahatma Gandhi with Jawaharlal Nehru, three-quarter length portraits, seated, at a meeting of the All India Congress, Bombay, India. 6 July 1946. Photographer: Max Desfor, who gave it to Dave Davis, Acme correspondent.