Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon III. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Napoleon III (1808-1873), President of the Second French Republic and Emperor of France.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. Photographer: Maull and Polyblank
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, holding a scroll of paper, of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British statesman and Prime Minister 1868-73, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94. With biographical notice by Edward Walford. Part issued February 1858 and date stamped by ...
Eugène Clémenceau. Né à Mouilleron-en-Pareds (Vendée), le 28 septembre 1841. Photographer: Carjat, Etienne
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full face portrait (oval image) of the French politician Georges Eugène Benjamin Clémenceau (1841-1929), Prime Minister of France 1906-09, 1917-20.
The Ex-King of Delhi [Bahadur Shah II]. Photographer: Tytler and Shepherd
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Three-quarter length portrait of Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862), Emperor of Delhi 1837-57. He is shown lying on a charpoy with a hookah in front of him. The photograph was taken in May 1858, while the ex-king was being held in Delhi awaiting his trial by the British for his part in the rebellion. I...