Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American Poet, half-length seated Portrait, G. Frank E. Pearsall, 1872
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Essayist, Lecturer, Poet and Leader of the Transcendentalist Movement, head and shoulders Portrait, Frederick Gutekunst, 1875
Walt Whitman (1819-92), American Poet, Seated Portrait with Two Children, 1887
Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836-61), Russian Literary Critic, Journalist and Poet, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving
James Russell Lowell (1819-91), American Poet, Portrait
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888), American Politician, U.S. Senator from New York, half-length seated Portrait, John F. Jarvis, 1876 after 1868 negative
Brigham Young (1801-1877), American Leader in the Latter Day Saint Movement and Settler of Western United States, full-length seated Portrait, Charles Roscoe Savage, 1875
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain (1835-1910), Half-length Portrait, Jeremiah Gurney, 1873
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), American Poet and Educator, Portrait, circa 1882
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92), American Quaker Poet and Abolitionist, Portrait, Sarony & Co., 1870
Denis Davydov (1784-1839), Russian Soldier and Poet, Famed Guerilla Leader against Napoleon's Forces during 1812 Invasion of Russia, Lithograph
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828-89), Russian Socialist, Writer and Philosopher, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American Novelist and Writer, seated Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, early 1860's
Frederick Douglass (1818-95), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, Half-Length Portrait, Photograph by George Francis Schreiber, 1870
Robert E. Lee (1807-70), American and Confederate Soldier, Commander of Confederate States Army during American Civil War 1862-65, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Published by Bradley & Company, 1870
Frederick Douglass (1818-95), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, Head and Shoulders Portrait, photographic reproduction by C.F. Conly of portrait by George Kendall Warren, 1876
Bayard Taylor (1825-78), American Poet, Literary Critic, Travel Author and Diplomat, Portrait, Sarony & Co., 1871
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93), 19th President of the United States, 1877-81, Chromolithograph, G.F. Gilman, 1877
Josiah Henson (1789-1883), a former Slave, he escaped to Canada to become an Author, Abolitionist, and Minister, Bradshaw and Godart, 1876
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-81), American Novelist and Poet who wrote under the Pseudonym Timothy Titcomb, Etching by H.B. Hall, 1876
1872, Mitchell Map of Utah and Nevada
1872, Walling Map of Washington and Oregon
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85), 18th President of the United States 1869-77, General of Union Army during American Civil War, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Lithograph, Strobridge & Co., 1877
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, head and shoulders Portrait, George Kendall Warren, 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes, (1822-93), 19th President of the United States 1877-81, head and shoulders Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, 1877
1872, Colton Map of Antarctica or the South Pole
1872, Colton Map of the North Pole or Arctic
1872, Mitchell Map of California w- San Francisco Inset
1872, Mitchell Map of Cuba and the Bahamas
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) American Painter and Inventor, seated Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, late 1860's
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American author and abolitionist, full-length Portrait, Charles DeForest Fredricks, mid-late 19th century
Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane, US child poet and novelist
Manuel Jose Quintana.
Alphonse Daudet.
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
French surrealist poets, historical image
Alice Brown, US author
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711), French Poet and Critic, Head and Shoulders Engraving
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German Poet, Philosopher, Historian, and Playwright, Portrait, E.H. Schroeder, Berlin, 1793
Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish Poet, Songwriter and Entertainer, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraving by H.B. Hall & Sons, 1876
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish Historical Novelist, Playwright and Poet, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Etching by H.B. Hall, 1876
Lula: Bay Mare, by Alexander's Norman, dam by imp. Hooten, Lithograph, Currier & Ives, 1876
Death of General Robert E. Lee, at Lexington, VA., October 12th, 1870, Lithograph, Published by Currier & Ives, 1870
Theodore Roosevelt, Head and Shoulders Portrait during Freshman Year at Harvard University, 1876
Woodrow Wilson, Head and Shoulders Portrait while Student at Davidson College, South Carolina, USA, photograph by Wearn & Hix, 1873
Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886), American Politician, Governor of New York, Democratic Candidate for U.S. President, head and Shoulders Portrait, Jose Maria Mora, 1870
Henry Wilson (1812-1875), American Politician, U.S. Vice President 1873-1875, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 1855-1873, half-length Portrait, Unidentified Artist, 1873
Charlotte Bronte, English novelist
Reuben Fenton (1819-1885), American Politician, U.S. Senator from New York 1869-1875, Governor of New York 1865-1868, U.S. House of Representatives 1853-1855, seated Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, 1860's
Oscar Wilde.
Allan Cunningham.
James Hogg.
William Howard Taft (seated center) and Classmates, Full-Length Group Portrait, Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, early 1870's
Rudyard Kipling, British poet and author
Phillis Wheatley, African American author
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologist
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian Novelist and Writer, speaking at a meeting of the AFL-CIO, Marion S. Trikosko, June 1975
Aldous Huxley, British writer and novelist
Thomas Gray.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American Humanist, Novelist, writer of Short Stories, Poetry and Nonfiction, and a lecturer for Social Reform, Seated Portrait, Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1900
J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist
Mark Twain, George Townsend, David Gray, portrait
Elizabeth Browning, English poet
Horace Greeley (1811-1872), American Editor and Politician, Portrait
Frederika Vern Blankner, American poet and scholar
Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Bernard Gotfryd, 1967
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), German Writer, Philosopher, Dramatist, Publicist and Art Critic, Engraving, 1873
Robert Browning, poet
Horace Greeley (1811-1872), American Newspaper Editor and Politician, half-length Portrait, Napoleon Sarony, 1869
Great Union Stock Yards, Chicago, USA, 19th century
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
The Late President James A. Garfield, Chromolithograph, G.F. Gilman, 1881
Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Half-length Seated Portrait, Brady-Handy Collection, 1860's
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist, Seated Portrait, Randall Studio, 1870
Crowd attending Inauguration of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Senate Wing of U.S. Capitol Building in Background, Washington DC, USA, Stereograph, March 5, 1877
Crowd attending Inauguration of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, East Front Grounds of U.S. Capitol Building surrounding Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington, Washington DC, USA, Stereograph, Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries,
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), American Reformer, Leader of Suffrage Movement, Head and Shoulders Portrait Reading, Sarony & Co., photographers, 1870
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American writer and activist, a leader of U.S. Women Right's Movement, half-length Portrait, Napoleon Sarony, 1870
Jay Gould (1836-1892), American Railroad Magnate and Financier, and generally identified as one of the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Bain News Service, 1880's
Jay Gould (1836-1892), American Railroad Magnate and Financier, and generally identified as one of the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age, Half-Length Portrait, Bain News Service, 1880's
James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th President of the United States, Half-Length Seated Portrait, Mathew B. Brady, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870-80
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States 1889-93, Seated Profile Portrait, Photograph by George Prince, 1888
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States 1889-93, Seated Portrait, Photograph by Charles Milton Bell, 1880's
Robert E. Lee (1807-70), American and Confederate Soldier, Commander of Confederate States Army during American Civil War 1862-65, Half-length Seated Portrait, Brady-Handy Collection, 1860's
Robert E. Lee (1807-70), American and Confederate Soldier, Commander of Confederate States Army during American Civil War 1862-65, Three-Quarter Length Seated Portrait, Photograph by Alexander Gardner, 1865
Henry L. Dawes (1816-1903), American Republican Politician, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 1875-1893, U.S. House of Representatives 1857-1875, half-length seated Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, 1860's
Joseph Henry, American scientist
Walt Whitman
Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (1859-1941), African American Educator and Author, Half-Length Portrait, Tintype Photograph, 1870's
Christopher Morley (1890-1957), American Essayist, Poet and Journalist and Novelist, which included writing the Novels The Trojan Horse and Kitty Foyle, Head and Shoulders Portrait with Pipe, 1930's
European surrealists, historical image
Edmund William Gosse.
James Henry Leigh Hunt.
Edmond Rostand.
Walter John de la Mare.
Boccaccio
Henry Longfellow, US poet
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss Poet, Writer, Philosopher, Theologian, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Charles Dickens, British author
Portrait Photo of Gabriele D'Annunzio
Mark Twain, US author
Anna Maria Hall.
Jean Goujon (1510-65), French Renaissance Sculptor and Architect, Engraving
Phillis Wheatley, first Published African American Female Poet, Illustration, 1773
James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th President of the United States, Half-Length Portrait, Photograph by Sarony, N.Y., 1870
James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Published by J. Winter, 1881
President James A. Garfield Grand Inauguration March, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Sheet Music by Richard Stahl, Published by George Willig & Co., 1881
Gen. James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States< Lithograph, W.A. Morgan & Co., 1881
James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th President of the United States, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Mathew B. Brady, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870-80
James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th President of the United States, Full-Length Portrait, Mathew B. Brady, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870-80
Published by J.H. Bufford's Sons, 1881
James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraved and Published by R. Dudensing and Sons, 1881
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93), 19th President of the United States 1877-81, Full Length Portrait, Photograph, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870's
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93), 19th President of the United States 1877-81, Half-Length Portrait, Photograph, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870's
Campaign Poster, Centennial Election, The Republican Nominees, Rutherford B. Hayes for President, William A. Wheeler for Vice President, Published by Krebs Lith. Co., Cincinnati, OH, 1876
Grand National Republican Banner, Gov. Rutherford B. Hayes for President, Hon. William A. Wheeler for Vice President, Presidential Election Campaign Banner, Lithograph, Published by Currier & Ives, 1876
Ex-Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican Candidate for Governor of Ohio, Election Tuesday, October 12th, A.D. 1875, Crayon-drawing by Dr. Jasper, Published by Jacob H. Studer, Columbus, OH, 1875
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States 1889-93, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Photograph by W.H. Potter, 1888
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States 1889-93, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Published by George P Houston, 1888
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States 1889-93, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Illustration Published by O.N. Carvahlo, NY, 1888
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States 1889-93, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Photograph, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870's
Robert E. Lee (1807-70), American and Confederate Soldier, Commander of Confederate States Army during American Civil War 1862-65, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Artist James Fuller Queen, 1870
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-91), Union General During American Civil War, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Lithograph, Strobridge & Co., 1877
Frederick Douglass (1818-95), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, Half-Length Portrait, Stereo Card, Brady-Handy Collection, 1880
Frederick Douglass (1818-95), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, Head and Shoulders Portrait, photograph by John White Hurn, January 14, 1862
Daniel Drew (1797-1879), American Businessman, Steamship and Railroad Developer, and Financier, Illustration from Photograph by Mathew Brady, Harper's Weekly, April 27, 1867
Joseph Pulitzer at 40, Head and shoulders Portrait, 1887
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), 19th President of the United States, three-quarter length Portrait, David H. Anderson, 1882
William Frederick " Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917), American Plainsman, Scout & Showman, unidentified artist, 1887
Frederick Douglass (1818-95), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, head and shoulders Portrait, Daguerreotype, Unidentified Artist, 1856
Brigham Young (1801-1877), American Leader in the Latter Day Saint Movement and Settler of Western United States, half-length Portrait, Charles William Carter, 1865
James A. Garfield (1831-1881), 20th U.S. President, head and shoulders Portrait, Napoleon Sarony, 1881
John Milton, English poet
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851), French Artist and Photographer, Recognized for his invention of the Daguerreotype Process of Photography, Chez Aubert gal Vere Dodat, Imp d'Aubert & Cie., Galerie de la Presse, de la Litterature & des Beaux-Arts,
Louis Melsens, Belgian physicist
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) Scottish-American Industrialist and Philanthropist, Seated Portrait, photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1905
Portrait of Family, Father Mother, and Son, Tintype, circa 1870
Czechia, Karlovy Vary, bust of German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made by Adolf von Donndorf
Jules Verne commemorative postcard
Louisa May Alcott.
Pierre G.T. Beauregard, General, Confederate States Army, Half-Length Portrait, Civil War Photograph Collection, 1860's
George Washington Cable (1844-1925), American Novelist, Head and Shoulders Portrait, 1915
Alfred Tennyson
England: 1923 Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the noted Sherlock Holmes series writing at his desk.
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George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885), American Civil War Union General, three-quarter length seated portrait in Military Uniform, Mathew Brady Studio, 1860's
Stan Laurel (1890-1965) English Comic Actor and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), American Comic Actor, seated Portrait, Harry Warnecke, 1938
Countess Elisa von der Recke (1754-1833), Baltic German, Writer, Poet, Book Illustration (after Seibold Painting, after C. Preisal Sculpture) from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Dinah Craik.
Saint Cecilia (2nd Century AD), Christian Martyr and Patroness of Musicians, Engraving by Cook after G. Staal, 1858
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet.
Johann Wolfgang.
Oliver Goldsmith 'She Stoops to Conquer'.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Portrait, Bain News Service, February 1930
Henry James (1843-1916), American Author, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Alice Boughton, 1916
W. (William) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British Author and Playwright, Head and Shoulders Portrait by Arnold Genthe, 1925
Harlem Renaissance intellectuals, 1924
Italian poetry frontispiece, 18th century
H. Rider Haggard, British author
Man with quill writing
John Silas Reed (1887-1920), American Journalist, Poet, and Communist Activist, Pirie MacDonald, 1916
Truman Capote (1924-1984), American Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Actor, Head and Shoulders Portrait, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
Truman Capote (1924-1984), American Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Actor, three-quarter length Portrait, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
Charles John Huffam Dickens
Lady Mount Cashell, Irish writer
Ida Pfeiffer, Austrian author and traveller
English Poet John Dryden
Herbert George Wells, British author
Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author
Francois de Chateaubriand, French writer
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch, designed by T.H. Matteson, Engraved by Charles Burt, N.Y., 1840's
James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Photograph by W.J. Baker, 1880
"Hurrah! For Hays and Honest Ways!", Campaign Song for U.S. Presidential Candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, Composer & Lyricist E.W. Foster, Published by John F. Perry & Co., Boston, 1876
U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes (center) with his two older sons, (left to right) Webb Cook Hayes and Birchard Austin Hayes (eldest son), Full Length Portrait, Brady-Handy Collection, 1870's
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States 1889-93, Head and Shoulders Portrait, 1896