Commons:Featured pictures/Historical/People

Gallery of Historical Portrait Photographs This page is a gallery of featured pictures that the community has chosen to be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. Other galleries containing featured pictures of historical and portrait photographs: Historical Portrait This gallery is for historical portrait photographs up until 1999 (until digital photography took over). For portrait photographs after from 2000 or later, please use Portraits or Black and White portraits. Historical Portrait Photos 1800-1849 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 Top See also: 19th-century portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1850-1859 1853-1860 Wendell Phillips by Brady 1855-1865 Admiral David Farragut Photograph of Gustave Doré by Nadar, between 1856 and 1858 Top See also: 1850s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1860-1869 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 c. 1863 Felix Nadar in the basket of a balloon, self-portrait, btv1b532323066 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 Asher B. Durand by Abraham Bogardus Top See also: 1860s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1870-1879 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 Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 Pedro II of Brazil ca. 1878 Thomas Edison with phonograph ca. 1879 Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite Blanche Roosevelt by Mora Blanche Roosevelt by Napoleon Sarony Top See also: 1870s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1880-1889 by 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 Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated 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 1883 Émile-Arthur Thouar by Eugène Pirou 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 1880s Sergius Stepniak by Elliott & Fry 1880s Chester A. Arthur by Abraham Bogardus unknown perhaps c. 1890 Michael Ancher portrætfoto 2 - Restoration c. 1890 Hermann Amand Schwarz (1843-1921) by Louis Zipfel Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox Helen Hunt Jackson by Charles F. Conly Top See also: 1880s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1890-1899 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 Pedro II of Brazil by Nadar Paul Nadar, "Autoportrait au bureau de l'atelier, rue d'Anjou" Self portrait of Edward Sheriff Curtis Claude Debussy by Atelier Nadar Alberto Santos-Dumont by Nadar Ottmar Mergenthaler, at approximately 45 years old Machado de Assis by Marc Ferrez.jpg/2 Top See also: 1890s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1900-1909 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 Dagestani man and woman 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 Ernest Shackleton before 1909 Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros Chief Joseph by Edward Sheriff Curtis Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/Wright brothers Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/Wright brothers Cabinet card of William Howard Taft by Pach Brothers - Cropped to image Percival Lowell by James E. Purdy.jpg/2 Top See also: 1900s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1910-1919 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 Genevieve Clark (Thomson) - Bain News Service (cropped) Top See also: 1910s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1920-1929 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 Buster Keaton, 1920 Jan ten Kate Lucie Delarue-Mardrus by Henri Manuel P.L. Travers as Titania in a production with Alan Wilkie Top See also: 1920s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1930-1939 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 Child in Shack Town by Dorothea Lange, 1936, 8b38490a Allie Mae Burroughs print.jpg/2 Son of farmer in dust bowl area, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 8b38282 Top See also: 1930s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1940-1949 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 1942 1942 photograph of a carpenter at work 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 1943–1949 Enrico Fermi 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) 1947 Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (LOC, 5020400274, cropped) 1948 Art Tatum, Vogue Room 1948 (Gottlieb) 1949 William Grant Still by Carl Van Vechten Top See also: 1940s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1950-1959 c. 1950 Ansel Adams and camera c. 1950 Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell 1953 Louis Armstrong 1953 Louis Armstrong 1954 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954 1954 Pauline Kirby (5493900611) c. 1956 Lies Noor, Djakartawood 1956 Althea Gibson in 1956 by Fred Palumbo (NYWTS) 1959 Antonio Segni and Konrad Adenauer c. 1959 Aminah Cendrakasih, by Tati Photo Studio Veronica Lake still, Paramount Pictures Elvis Presley, Modern Screen, June 1958 Marilyn Monroe photo pose Seven Year Itch Top See also: 1950s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1960-1969 1960 Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico (by Alberto Korda) c- 1960 Indriati Iskak in a promotional still c- 1960 Farida Arriany 1963 Maria von Braun 1964 Charles Conrad 1964 Golda Meir 1964 Malcolm X 1965 Eugene F. Kranz at his console at the NASA Mission Control Center 1965 Kurt Vonnegut (by Bernard Gotfryd) 1966 Katherine Johnson at NASA 1966 Abbey Lincoln 1967 Dorothy Houston Jacobson 1967 Sharon Tate, still from Valley of the Dolls about 1967 to 1979 Rep. Barbara Jordan 1968 Dorothy Anstett, Miss USA Top See also: 1960s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1970-1979 1970 Black Panther convention 1971 Ike & Tina Turner 1972 Luchino Visconti 1972 Shirley Chisholm 1974 Angela Davis 1977 Mary Jackson in a wind tunnel with a model at NASA Langley 1978 En attendant Godot, Festival d'Avignon 1979 Mary Jackson c. 1979-1983 Senador Tancredo Neves c. 1976-1979 Lauren Bacall by Bernard Gotfryd c. 1970 Tony Tornado e Sílvio Santos restored Top See also: 1970s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1980-1989 1980s Al Grey (Gottlieb) 1982 Stefan Heym, by Marcel Antonisse 1980 Vietnamese refugee 1980 Wessel Couzijn 1980 Mary Jackson working 1981 Serge Gainsbourg 1981 Mongolian Lama 1984 Steve Jobs and Macintosh computer 1984 Sally Ride 1984 Portrait of Italian writer Umberto Eco 1985 Olivia de Havilland 1986 Sir Peter Ustinov 1988 Jorge Amado Top See also: 1980s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   1990-1999 1998 Tanja Vienonen on cover of Eeva Top See also: 1990s portrait photographs (category) Galleries   Unsorted The FPCBot will place images here, they can manually be sorted into more specific sections. 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