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 Doctor Mary Walker

  

 Mrs. M. Hogan

  

Probably Lucille Western, actress, ca. 1863

Matthew Brady

Some more 19th century portraits from this famous early American photographer.

 Laura Keene

  

 Miss Lavinia Warren

  

 Nathaniel Hawthorn, 1860-65

  

 Queen Emma of Hawaii

  

Samuel Morse

[inventor of the telegraph; also a painter]

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Matthew Brady was one of the primary photographers active during the American Civil War.

 71st New York Infantry at Camp Douglas, 1861

  

 Abner Doubleday

[a successful Civil War general, Doubleday has been 

mistakenly credited with having invented baseball]

 

 Alpheus S. Williams

[another Union general in the Civil War]

  

 Ambrose Burnside

[a Union general with mixed success; his distinctive facial hair gave birth to the term "sideburns"]

  

Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, 1860–65