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.

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

Chester Arthur, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Circa 1882. By Charles Milton Bell.

Grover Cleveland, bust portrait, seated, facing right. Date: 1880-1900.

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.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Bain News Service, 1913 Jan. 27. Publisher Bain News Service.

Sarojini Naidu at Shimla Conference in July, 1945

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.

Bertha Benz around circa 1871-1872. Probably 23-year-old Bertha Benz. Photographed by Mannheim Bühler.

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.

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane). Photo by H.L. Meyers. c1890 Feb 21. Please note that the face has been digitally improved. Not altered.

Cabinet photograph of Gustav Mahler. Year 1893. By Leonhard Berlin-Bieber.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Year: 1880 - ca. 1900

Marcel Proust (15 years old) photographed on March 24, 1887 by Paul Nadar.

William Howard Taft. Circa 1910s. By Harris & Ewing.

African American soldiers of the 4th US Colored Infantry Regiment are seen in this picture from 1865. The regiment’s soldiers were awarded three Medals of Honor for gallantry at Chaffin’s Farm, Virginia, in September 1864. By William Morris Smith.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909. By Erwin Raupp.

British statesman Sir Winston Churchill calls on President Hoover. Winston Churchill 18th Oct 1929. By Harris & Ewing.

A German soldier standing next to the statue of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Novogorod, 1941.

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Grover Cleveland. By Pach Brothers Studio. Between 1904.

Herbert Hoover. Between 1905-45. 1930s guessing by appearance. By Harris & Ewing.

Johannes Brahms, as a 20 year old. Taken in 1853 in Leipzig. By Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann. Medium: Salted paper print.

Portrait of Johannes Brahms. Matt print. Around 1889. By Carl Brasch.

Howard Carter meets President Coolidge. 8th May 1924. President Coolidge had requested a private lecture. By National Photo Company Collection.

Jean Sibelius circa 1913.

A portrait of Henrik Pontoppidan. Year: Circa 1888-1913. By Frederik Riise.

David Glasgow Farragut. ca. 1860-70. Mathew Brady Studio.

Guy de Maupassant early in his career; by Alphonse Liébert. Date unknown.

A portrait of Robert Kajanus. Year: 1912. By: Carl Klein. Place: Helsinki.

Portrait of Paul Ehrlich. Year: before 1916. By Eduard Blum.

Portrait of Warren G. Harding. Cira 1920. Around 55 years old. By Harris & Ewing.

Photograph shows Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff standing at a fireplace. Between 1915-20. Bain News Service, publisher

An early photograph of Engels, thought to show him aged 20–25 (c. 1840–45).

Edgar Allan Poe. Circa 1860s. By Mathew Brady Studio. Albumen silver print

A portrait of Robert Kajanus. Year: 1912. By: Carl Klein. Place: Helsinki.

Portrait of Franz Liszt. Year c. 1875 - c. 1886. By Félix Nadar.

Jean Sibelius. Circa 1891. By Daniel Nyblin.

Jean Sibelius. Circa 1890. By Daniel Nyblin.

Jean Sibelius. Created on 9th December 1906. Age 41. Photographed by Daniel Nyblin in Helsinki, Finland.

Photograph shows writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Circa 1900. Bain News Service, publisher.

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.

Jean Sibelius. Circa 1885-90. Photographed by Daniel Nyblin.

Alfred Tennyson. 1866. Photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron.

Alfred Werner. Circa 1914. By Franz Schmelhaus.

Jefferson Davis. Circa 1886. At Atlanta, Georgia. By Columbus W. Motes.

Jefferson Davis. Circa 1886. At Atlanta, Georgia. By Columbus W. Motes.

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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1879. Photographed by Constantin Shapiro.