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Grover Cleveland, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Year: c. 1903. By Frederick Gutekunst. Location: Philadelphia.
Alexandre Dumas père. 1855. Salted paper print from wet collodion negative. Nadar was a journalist, novelist, cartoonist, balloonist, lithographer, and, beginning in 1849, photographer. Like Brady’s establishments in America, Nadar’s Parisian studio quickly became a center for celebrity photography, selling compelling images of the major political and cultural figures of the time. Nadar avoided symbolic props and elaborate backgrounds; he let his sitters choose their own pose, putting them at ease enough to reveal glimpses of their true character. Dumas, one of France’s most popular authors, wrote The Three Musketeers. The year this portrait was made, he and Nadar were hoping to collaborate on a play, but their only joint production seems to have been this casual, intimate portrait.
Jean Sibelius. Created on 9th December 1906. Age 41. Photographed by Daniel Nyblin in Helsinki, Finland.
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.
Giacomo Puccini, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, right hand inside coat. Circa 1908. By A. Dupont.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by the English photographer Herbert Rose Barraud. Carbon print on card mount. Year: 1893.
Rajendra Prasad, Former President of the Republic of India. This image was signed by Rajendra Prasad and sent to Walter Nash (former New Zealand PM) in 1958.
Iron Shell, Lakota, Sioux tribe, half-length portrait, facing front in traditional clothing. C.1908. He is most likely wearing a Ulysses S. Grant Peace Medal from 1871.
Portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1888, London, England. He is posed wearing a hat and holding a hand over his chest. By Henry Herschel Hay Cameron. Photogravure.
Camel-drivers waiting at the south-east side side of Darwaza-I-Rauza (gateway) to the famous Taj Mahal, Agra, India. 1903. By Underwood & Underwood.
Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States. 1896. Benjamin Harrison, half-length studio portrait, facing slightly left. Possibly by Pach Brothers.