Portrait of American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk . Toured the US , South America, and Europe as a pianist and composer with much success, wrote...
Portrait of American financier Jay Gould . Practiced stock market manipulation of railroad securities from c.1860, eventually controlled the Erie RR,...
Edward Bates , Lawyer, politician; Whig member of US Congress, 1826. Appointed by Lincoln to Attorney General, 1860-64.
James Harper , American publisher who began in the printing business with his brother, John in 1817, later with brothers Joseph and Fletcher,...
Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de Lesseps . French diplomat and engineer. He entered consular service minister to Spain, 1848 While serving in Egypt,...
American journalist and politician William Gannaway Brownlow , was the editor of the Knoxville 'Whig' from 1839 until it was suppressed by the...
John Lothrop Motley . American historian, secretary, US legation at St Petersburg, Russia 1841. Published two histories of The Netherlands 1856,...
American soldier and politician Lovell Harrison Rousseau . Born Kentucky, Whig member, Indiana State legislature 1844, in Mexican War '46-47, member,...
James Renwick . American architect. Known for his buildings in the Gothic Revival style, he designed Grace Church, New York City 1843, the...
Henry Jarvis Raymond . American journalist and politician. Worked at Horace Greeley's 'New Yorker' 1840, at 'New York Tribune' 1841-48, at 'Harper's...
The President and the Japanese Embassy', circa 1869. The Japanese Embassy to the United States was dispatched in 1860 by the Tokugawa shogunate ....
Lord Penzance, judge of the Court of Arches, 1875. In 1860 he was appointed Baron of the Exchequer. In 1863 he was appointed Judge of the Court of...
The Good Shepherd, Early 1860s. Found in the Collection of Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen. Artist Overbeck, Johann Friedrich .
The Late Earl of Derby', circa 1850, . Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...
Henry W. Acland, Esq. .D. F.R.S. &c', 1850s. Portrait of British physician Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Bt . Acland served as personal physician...
Medallion portraits of British military figures, . Portraits of commanders who furthered the imperialist cause in India and other colonial...
Mr. Jogglebury Crowdey with his dog and his gun', circa 1860s. Humorous scene: two men, one with smoking shotgun, and dog chasing a rabbit. Artist...
American author Frederick Swartwout Cozzens wrote humorous works such as 'The Sparrowgrass Papers,' 1856, and 'Sayings of Dr. Bushwacker,' 1867....
James Pollock . American lawyer and politician. Member, US Congress 1844, governor of Pennsylvania 1855-58, sold Western Division of State Works,...
Solomon Franklin Smith . American actor and theater manager. Joined J H Caldwell Theatrical Company 1823, and with Noah Ludlow as partner, built...
John Aaron Rawlins . American soldier. Studied law and practised in Illinois. In the Civil War commissioned assistant adjutant general and ADC to...
Theodore Fitz Randolph . American merchant, mining executive, president, Morris & Essex Railroad. Member, New Jersey state senate 1862-63, governor...
William Anderson Pile . American clergyman in Methodist Episcopal church, Missouri. In the Civil War he was a chaplain to the First Missouri...
Schyler Colfax . American statesman. He was Vice President of the United States . Colfax was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives , and...
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, November 16th . Shustov, Nikolai Semyonovich . Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Tula.
Edwin McMasters Stanton, American lawyer, politician, 1862-1867. Stanton was the United States Attorney General in 1860-1861 and Secretary of War...
John Cabell Breckinridge, Confederate general, 1862-1867. Before the Civil War Breckinridge served as the 14th Vice-President of the United States,...
Stephane Mallarme, French poet and critic, c1890s. Mallarme was an influential Symbolist poet. Edouard Manet's painting 'The Execution of Maximilian'...
Agricultural implements, 19th century. Bell's reaping machine, McCormick's American reaping machine, and Hussey's American reaping machine. The...
Man riding an ice-velocipede, a bicycle equipped with a spiked front wheel and steel runners at the back, a by-product of the cycling fad of the...