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Historical

Portrait

This gallery is for historical portrait photographs up until 1969.
For portrait photographs after from 1970 or later,
please use Portraits or Black and White portraits.

Historical Portrait Photos[edit]

• 
  before 1849
  Edgar A. Poe - NARA - 528345 (cropped)
• 
  1849
  Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off
• 
  ca.1850
  Unidentified woman - daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes

• 
  1853-1860
  Wendell Phillips by Brady
• 
  1855-1865
  Admiral David Farragut

• 
  1860
  Captain John W. Tarleton by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
• 
  1860
  Daniel Craig McCallum
• 
  1860 - 1865
  David Dixon Porter
• 
  1860 - 1865
  Admiral John Dahlgren
• 
  1860s
  Jacques Offenbach by Nadar
• 
  1860-1865
  Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard
• 
  1860-1865
  John Milton Brannan by the Studio of Mathew Brady - NPG 81 M465
• 
  1861-1865
  Unidentified young soldier in Confederate infantry uniform
• 
  1862
  Étienne Carjat, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire
• 
  1862
  James Birdseye McPherson c. 1862 by Barr & Young
• 
  1863
  Hector Berlioz
• 
  1863
  Alfred Waud by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
• 
  between 1863 and 1865
  Sgt. Samuel Smith, African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters
• 
  1864
  Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar
• 
  1864
  George Sand
• 
  1864
  Cabinet Card of Sojourner Truth - Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• 
  1864
  David Livingstone by Thomas Annan
• 
  1864-1877
  Joseph Bazalgette by Lock & Whitfield
• 
  1865
  Grell by Janke - Black and white
• 
  c. 1865
  George N. Barnard by Mathew Brady
• 
  1865
  Composer Rossini 1865 by Carjat
• 
  1865 - 1880
  John Lorimer Worden - Mathew Brady
• 
  1865-1880
  William Tecumseh Sherman
• 
  1867
  John Herschel by Julia Margaret Cameron (Metropolitan Museum of Art copy, restored) levels
• 
  1868
  Gaucho
• 
  1868
  Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1868
• 
  1868
  Photograph of Frederic Edwin Church by Napoleon Sarony
• 
  1869
  Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
• 
  1869
  Levin C. Handy - General Robert E. Lee in May 1869
• 
  c. 1869
  Self-portrait of Jeremiah Gurney
• 
  between 1869 and 1874
  Jeremiah Gurney - Photograph of Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa

• 
  1870
  Jasper Francis Cropsey by Napoleon Sarony
• 
  1870
  H.J. Whitlock - Photograph of Arthur Sullivan
• 
  1870
  Caroline Hill as Mirza in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
• 
  1870
  Julia Margaret Cameron MET DP114480 - Restoration
• 
  1870
  Sojourner Truth, 1870 (cropped, restored)
• 
  1870
  Christine Nilsson Nadar
• 
  1870
  Louisa May Alcott, c. 1870 - Warren's Portraits, Boston
• 
  1870
  Bill Thompson
• 
  1870
  Batak Warriors 60011135 edit
• 
  c. 1870
  Victoria Claflin Woodhull by Mathew Brady - Oval Portrait
• 
  c. 1870
  Edmonia Lewis by Henry Rocher
• 
  1870
  Édouard Manet, en buste, de face - Nadar
• 
  1870 - 1880
  President Rutherford Hayes
• 
  1870 - 1880
  Lucretia Mott, signed photo, by F. Gutekunst
• 
  1873, 1878 or 1889
  Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, close up, with slight smile by Nadar
• 
  1874
  Edward Alexander Bouchet Yale College class of 1874
• 
  1875 - 1883
  Atelier Nadar - Galli-Marié in Bizet's Carmen
• 
  between 1875 and 1895
  Jacques Isnardon, Vaudeville
• 
  1875 - 1895, probably after 1880
  Georges Ernest Boulanger by Atelier Nadar
• 
  1875 - 1895, probably after 1880
  Maréchal Canrobert by Nadar
• 
  1876
  Pedro II of Brazil
• 
  ca. 1878
  Thomas Edison with phonograph
• 
  ca. 1879
  Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite

• 
  before 1880
  Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
• 
  1880
  Noel, Léon, Nadar, Gallica
• 
  1880
  Barbier, Jules, Nadar, Gallica
• 
  c. 1880
  Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood
• 
  c. 1880
  Edward Mitchell Bannister by Gustine L. Hurd
• 
  1880-1909
  Charles Follen McKim
• 
  1880-1900
  Mary Church Terrell - cph.3b47842
• 
  1881
  James Abram Garfield, photo portrait seated
• 
  c. 1881
  Henry Highland Garnet by James U. Stead
• 
  ca. 1881-1887
  Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood - American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Restoration
• 
  ca.1882
  Kingdavidkalakaua dust
• 
  1882
  Oscar Wilde
• 
  1882
  Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946), M.D. 1882, portrait photograph by H.D. Carns & Co; Image ID 27593990
• 
  1882 or 1883
  Elliott & Fry - photograph W. S. Gilbert
• 
  1883
  Granville Stuart 1883 by L. A. Huffman
• 
  1884
  Jules Verne by Étienne Carjat
• 
  1884
  Thomas Mundy Peterson by William R. Tobias
• 
  c. 1885
  Amanda Berry Smith by T. B. Latchmore
• 
  1885 or 1886
  Geraldine Ulmar in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
• 
  1885-1891
  Edmund Beecher Wilson between about 1885 and 1891
• 
  1886
  Frances Folsom Cleveland, by Charles Milton Bell
• 
  1887
  William John Macquorn Rankine by Thomas Annan
• 
  1888-1900
  Old peasant with dagger and long smoking pipe, Mestia, Svanetia, Georgia (Republic)
• 
  1889
  Blind man carrying a paralysed man
• 
  between 1889 and 1899
  Séverine, debout, un poing sur la hanche - Nadar
• 
  unknown perhaps c. 1890
  Michael Ancher portrætfoto 2 - Restoration
• 
  Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated
• 
  Émile-Arthur Thouar by Eugène Pirou

• 
  c. 1890
  Carlos, Duke of Madrid by Nadar
• 
  1890
  Louis-DelphinOdobeyCadet
• 
  1890
  Buffalo soldiers
• 
  1890
  Charles Gounod by Nadar
• 
  1890
  Charcot Jean-Martin Gallica Nadar, French neurologist
• 
  1890-1910
  William H. Crook photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston
• 
  1890-1908
  Henri Becquerel
• 
  1890-1910
  Mattie Edwards Hewitt
• 
  1891
  Liliuokalani, c. 1891
• 
  between 1891 and 1914
  La Belle Otero
• 
  1893
  Fausta Labia, porträtt - SMV - H5 028 - Restoration
• 
  ca. 1893
  Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• 
  c. 1894
  Ambroise Thomas
• 
  1895
  Espinasse père - Fonds Trutat
• 
  1899
  Cajal
• 
  1890-1900
  Elderly Irish woman at a spinning wheel.
• 
  1893
  Alphonse Bertillon
• 
  1893
  Portrait of Charles Nettleton 1893 Talma & Co. H3995
• 
  1894
  Harriet Jacobs’s only known formal portrait
• 
  1895
  Louis Pasteur, photo by Paul Nadar
• 
  c. 1895
  Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
• 
  c. 1895
  Ethel Reed (ca. 1895)
• 
  between 1895 and 1905
  Dr. Aletta Jacobs, Dutch suffragette, first female Dutch university graduate and first Dutch female physician
• 
  1896
  Frances Benjamin Johnston
• 
  1896
  Mrs. Fiske, "Love finds the way" - Zaida Ben Yusuf. LCCN2006677585 - Restoration, levels tweaked
• 
  between 1896 and 1901
  Benjamin Franklin Tilley - NH 67313
• 
  1897
  Leo Tolstoy
• 
  1898-1914
  Costumes and characters, etc. Girls of Ramallah
• 
  1898-1914
  Bedouin woman
• 
  1899
  Elsie Leslie (1899)
• 
  1899
  Johann Strauss II by Fritz Luckhardt
• 
  Thorsten Nordenfelt. Svensk ubåtspionjär

• 
  ca.1900
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 
  ca.1900
  Robert Peary (1856–1920), US Navy rear admiral, engineer and North Pole explorer
• 
  1900
  Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi, Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1900) - Archivio storico Ricordi FOTO003107 - Restoration
• 
  1900
  Three Piegan (Blackfeet) chiefs
• 
  1900
  Saami Family 1900
• 
  1900
  Camille Saint-Saëns in 1900 by Pierre Petit
• 
  1900
  Philippe Chaperon by Atelier Nadar
• 
  1900 - 1906
  A Southern chain gang
• 
  1900-1910
  Charlie Chaplin
• 
  1900-1910
  Autoportrait de Félix Nadar
• 
  1901
  Voltairine de Cleyre (Age 35)
• 
  1901
  Anna Fernqvist, rollporträtt - SMV - H1 122 - Restoration
• 
  presumably between 1901 and 1919
  Albert Reiss LOC ggbain-25651
• 
  between 1901 and 1908
  William Harvey Carney by James E Reed - Restoration
• 
  1902
  Virginia Woolf in 1902
• 
  1902
  Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos - Photograph A from the Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 21
• 
  1903
  Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston
• 
  1903
  Alice Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston
• 
  1903
  Cree Indian (HS85-10-13885) edit
• 
  1904
  A Jicarilla Man, 1904, Edward S. Curtis (sepia restored)
• 
  1904
  Ida M. Tarbell
• 
  1904
  Nettie Maria Stevens
• 
  c. 1904
  C.M. Gilbert. - John Hay
• 
  c. 1904
  Helen KellerA
• 
  1905
  The native mode of grinding coffee, Palestine.
• 
  c. 1905
  Lucy Arbell photographed by Paul Nadar
• 
  1905
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
• 
  1905-1913
  Hollow Horn Bear LCCN 2016858434 (2) (cropped)
• 
  1906-1912
  Ray Strachey, between 1906 and 1912
• 
  1907
  George Foster Peabody
• 
  1907
  W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907
• 
  1907
  Inuit Woman 1907 Crisco edit 2
• 
  1907
  Lilly Walleni in Daria at Kungliga Operan 1907 - SMV - NV059
• 
  between 1907 and 1912
  Nelly Martyl by Jean Reutlinger
• 
  ca.1908
  Carl Nielsen
• 
  1908
  Lucia Chamberlain by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.jpg/2
• 
  1908
  Salote Tupou III of Tonga in 1908
• 
  1908
  Holger Drachmann, fra Klæbels samling - Restoration
• 
  1908
  John Campbell Dancy, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C.
• 
  1909
  Magna Lykseth in Tristan och Isolde at Kungliga Operan 1909 - SMV - GL164
• 
  1909
  Russian peasant girls (Prokudin-Gorskii)
• 
  1909
  Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
• 
  Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin by T. & R. Annan & Sons
• 
  Minnie Tittell Brune as the Duke of Reichstadt in Edmond Rostand's play L'Aiglon - Talma & Co

• 
  ca. 1910
  Mignon Nevada as “Ophelia”
• 
  ca.1910
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• 
  1910
  Hubertine Auclert 1910
• 
  1910
  George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration.jpg/2
• 
  c. 1910-12
  Emily Wilding Davison by Andrew William Dron
• 
  1910-20
  Józef Piłsudski.
• 
  1910-20
  Ida Husted Harper photograph by Aime Dupont
• 
  1910-20
  Dean Emma M. Gillett
• 
  1910-20
  Emma Smith DeVoe by James & Bushnell - No photographer stamp
• 
  1910-20
  Harris & Ewing - Helena Hill Weed
• 
  Between 1910 and 1922
  Mary Pickford
• 
  Between 1910 and 1929
  Séeberger, Petites musiciennes de rue - CMN
• 
  ca. 1911
  Aviator Hélène Dutrieu seated in her airplane.
• 
  1911
  Russian Imperial Family
• 
  1911
  Ed Walsh
• 
  1911
  Connie Mack
• 
  before 1912
  Florence Earle
• 
  unknown, before 1912
  Maresuke Nogi, 近世名士写真 其1
• 
  before 1913
  Carrie Chapman Catt - National Woman's Party Records
• 
  1913
  George V and Nicholas II in Berlin, 1913
• 
  1913
  Raymond Poincaré
• 
  1913
  Millicent Fawcett
• 
  1913
  Shoeless Joe Jackson, 1913
• 
  1913
  Emmeline Pankhurst (1913)
• 
  1913
  Professeur Metchnikoff, portrait du scientifique dans un laboratoire de recherche
• 
  between 1913 and 1915
  Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict by Edmonston, Washington, D.C.
• 
  between 1913 and 1917
  Iris Calderhead
• 
  1914
  Paul von Hindenburg (1914) von Nicola Perscheid
• 
  1914
  Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937), social reformer and suffragist
• 
  1914
  Hattie Caraway by Harris & Ewing, 1914
• 
  1914
  Michel Fokine, Arlequin
• 
  between 1914 and 1915
  Portrait of Mary Pickford, signed (CHS-2292) digital restoration
• 
  1915
  Hazel MacKaye and dog by Harris & Ewing
• 
  1915
  Alice Paul (1915) by Harris & Ewing
• 
  1915
  Portrait of Paul Trappen
• 
  ca. 1915
  Alice C. Evans, circa 1915
• 
  unknown, before 1916
  Portrett av Gina Krog (6276081582) - Restoration
• 
  1917
  Jeannette Rankin, Bain News Service, facing front
• 
  1917
  Eleftherios Venizelos 1917.jpg/2
• 
  ca. 1917
  Teresa Carreño at the piano
• 
  1917
  Rosa Raisa (1917) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002701 - Restoration
• 
  1918
  Lewis Wickes Hine, The charter member of the Red Cross Boy Scout Troop Paris, September 1918 - Library of Congress
• 
  1918
  Prokofieff (i.e. Prokofiev) LCCN2014708419 Crop 2
• 
  ca. 1918-1919
  John Meintz, punished during World War I
• 
  1919
  Margaret D. Foster, in Lab, 4 October 1919
• 
  Lord Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany by Morrall-Hoole Studios
• 
  Abigail Scott Duniway registering to vote

• 
  c. 1920
  Helen Keller circa 1920 - restored
• 
  1921
  Nguyen Aïn Nuä'C (Ho-Chi-Minh)
• 
  1921
  Charles Henry Turner at Sumner High School, St. Louis, Mo. Aug. 9, 1921
• 
  1921
  Lillian Gish-edit2
• 
  1921
  Chaplin The Kid
• 
  1922
  Ethel Smyth
• 
  c. 1922
  Renée Adorée
• 
  1923
  Jean Cocteau b Meurisse
• 
  1923
  Ivor Novello
• 
  1924
  Walter Johnson and Calvin Coolidge shake hands
• 
  1924
  Bea Kyle Standing Fire Engine and Pickle 1924
• 
  1924 or 1926
  Jane Addams
• 
  1925
  Bertha Lutz
• 
  1925
  Avril de Sainte-Croix - Restored, cropped
• 
  1927
  Solvay conference
• 
  1929
  Portrait of two young Balinese dancers
• 
  1929
  Inupiat Family from Noatak, Alaska - Edward S. Curtis

• 
  1931
  Rosalind Goodrich Bates (1931)
• 
  c. 1932
  Franklin D. Roosevelt - Google Art Project
• 
  1934
  Nelly Diener cropped
• 
  1936
  Dorothea Lange
  Image is also a Featured picture of automobiles
• 
  1936
  Migrant Mother by D. Lange
• 
  1936
  Bessie Smith (1936) by Carl Van Vechten
• 
  1938
  Robert Earl Jones

• 
  1940
  Marian Anderson
• 
  1941
  Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph
• 
  1941-1947
  Portrait of Henri Frenay, head and shoulders ppmsca.13371 edit
• 
  1942
  Dorie Miller - Restoration, full
• 
  1942
  A member of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) serving with a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun battery, December 1942. TR452
• 
  1943
  Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in Tehran.
• 
  1943
  Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner, Women's Airforce Service Pilots, NARA-542191
• 
  1943
  Haane Manahi
• 
  Unknown, before 1943
  Sergei Rachmaninoff LOC 30160 cropped
• 
  1944
  General Douglas MacArthur
• 
  1945
  "Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA - 535942
• 
  1946
  Sarah Vaughan - William P. Gottlieb - No. 1.jpg/2
• 
  1946
  Mary Lou Williams (Gottlieb 09231)
• 
  1946
  Django Reinhardt (Gottlieb 07301)
• 
  1946
  Shirley Graham Du Bois
• 
  1946
  Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
• 
  1946-1948
  Billy Strayhorn, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948
• 
  1947
  Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947
• 
  1947
  Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 06191)
• 
  1948
  Art Tatum, Vogue Room 1948 (Gottlieb)
• 
  1949
  William Grant Still by Carl Van Vechten

• 
  c. 1950
  Ansel Adams and camera
• 
  c. 1950
  Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell
• 
  1953
  Louis Armstrong restored
• 
  1953
  Louis Armstrong2
• 
  1954
  Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
• 
  1954
  Pauline Kirby (5493900611)
• 
  c. 1956
  Lies Noor (c. 1956), Djakartawood (no name)
• 
  1956
  Althea Gibson in 1956 by Fred Palumbo (NYWTS)
• 
  1959
  Antonio Segni and Konrad Adenauer
• 
  c. 1959
  Aminah Cendrakasih, c. 1959, by Tati Photo Studio

• 
  1960
  Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico by Alberto Korda
• 
  c- 1960
  Indriati Iskak in a promotional still (c. 1960)
• 
  c- 1960
  Farida Arriany, c. 1960
• 
  1963
  Maria von Braun 6330121 edited
• 
  1964
  Charles Conrad
• 
  1964
  Golda Meir
• 
  1965
  Eugene F. Kranz at his console at the NASA Mission Control Center
• 
  1965
  Kurt Vonnegut by Bernard Gotfryd (1965)
• 
  1966
  Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
• 
  1966
  Abbey Lincoln in 1966
• 
  1967
  Dorothy Houston Jacobson 1967 - Crop
• 
  1967
  Sharon Tate Valley of the Dolls 1967 - Restoration
• 
  about 1967 to1979
  Rep. Barbara Jordan