Cassius Marcellus Clay

Not the boxer, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, who became Muhammad Ali upon his conversion to Islam, nor his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr, but the Kentucky state representative who fought for the abolition of slavery, often at the risk of his life, and despite coming from a family of slave-owners.



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Dr. Mary E. Walker

Mary Edwards Walker was the first female surgeon ever employed by the U.S. Army Surgeon.  and the only woman, so far, ever to receive the Medal of Honor. This photo from 1865 was taken at the presentation of that medal.


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Mathew B. Brady

Often cited as "the father of photojournalism", Mathew Brady took many of the photographs that exist of the American Civil War and, through his paid assistants, was responsible for many more. He began his career as a painter, then a portrait photographer. After the war he returned to portraits, as with this one of himself, taken around 1875, but he never recovered his wartime success, and died penniless in 1896.


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Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish, star of silent movies, and elder sister of Dorothy Gish.


Original B&W photo.

Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Gish, in the title role of the 1926 film "Nell Gwyn". Her older sister was Lillian Gish


Original B&W photo.

Ike

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, date unknown, but probably the 1940s.


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Mary of Teck

Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg (though born and brought up in the United Kingdom), had been engaged to marry Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales (who would later be Edward VII) but, when he died in 1892, of influenza in the pandemic of 1889–92, she became engaged to , and married, his next surviving brother, George, who was later George V, and so is the present Queen's grandmother. This photo was taken in late June/early July 1893, very shortly before her wedding.


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