Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin in 1916, the same year he was given his own studio to work in by the Mutual Film Corporation, on the grounds that "we can afford to pay Mr Chaplin this large sum annually because the public wants Chaplin and will pay for him."


Original B&W photo.

Robert E. Lee & Son

General Robert E. Lee (centre) with his son, Major General George Washington Custis Lee (left), and his aide-de-camp, Colonel Walter Taylor, on the back porch of the Lee home at Richmond, Virginia, April 1865


Original B&W photo.

USS Monitor

The USS Monitor, after her fight with the CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack) on 9 March 1862.
When I put this picture on Facebook, John Winner kindly supplied more information:

View on deck looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns showing, is at left. Note crewmembers atop the turret, and dents in turret armor from hits by Confederate heavy guns.
Dents from the battle with the CSS Virginia are visible. Officers at right are (left to right): Third Assistant Engineer Robinson W. Hands, Acting Master Louis N. Stodder, Second Assistant Engineer Albert B. Campbell (seated) and Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William Flye (with binoculars).

Original B&W photo.

George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer, sometime during the Civil War, wearing his temporary (brevet) Major General uniform. He reverted to Captain for a time after the war, before rising again in rank.


Original B&W photo.

General Joseph Reid Anderson

General Joseph Reid Anderson, whose Tredegar Iron Company was at the industrial heart of the Confederate States of America.
Anderson resigned his army commission on July 19, 1862, so this photo was almost certainly taken before then, unless he donned it again just for the portrait.


Original B&W photo.

 

Jane Russell

Jane Russell in the 1943 film, "The Outlaw".


Original B&W photo.

Billy Hitler

Although he was at first rebuffed because of his infamous Uncle Adolf, William Patrick Hitler enlisted into the United States Navy on March 6, 1944, after writing a letter to the President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, begging to be allowed to do so.


Original B&W photo.