13 amazing public domain portraits photographs for inspiration

i like many designers keep bunch of folders with images of various things that i find as i’m searching for stock photos or stumbling around the internet or whatever. one of my go-to places to start is the wikkimedia commons. the other day i was browsing through their public domain section when i came across this image, which led me to the source of that image: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04462. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 821 [P&P]

you can bet your firstborn son, some of these images are going to make their way into that msced feed.

1. Mahone, Hon. Senator of Virginia, Brig. Gen in Civil War

Digital ID: cwpbh 04844   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04844 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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2.Wolverine Haymond, Hon. Wm. Summerville of Indiana, surgeon in Union Army…

Digital ID: cwpbh 04178   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04178 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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3.Williams, Hon. Richard of Oregon

Digital ID: cwpbh 04172   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04172 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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4. Pomeroy, Hon. Samuel Clarke of Kansas

Digital ID: cwpbh 04836   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04836 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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5. Woody, W.L.

Digital ID: cwpbh 04160   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04160 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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6. Bittinger, Rev. B.F. (7th st. Presbyterian Church)

Digital ID: cwpbh 04879   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04879 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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7. Judge “look at my mustache” Hope,  Wm B. of Ky

Digital ID: cwpbh 04888   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04888 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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8. Ransom, Hon. Matt W. of N.C. Gen. in C.S.A

Digital ID: cwpbh 04900   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04900 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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9. McMillan, Hon. Samuel James Renwick of Minn. 2nd Lt. in Stillwa…

Digital ID: cwpbh 04903   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04903 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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10. Harris, Hon. Rep. Henry R. of Ga. Col. in C.S.A.

Digital ID: cwpbh 04917   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04917 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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11.Tyner, Hon. Rep. James Noble of Ind.

Digital ID: cwpbh 04926   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04926 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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12. Burchard “Peter Parker”, Hon. W.L. of Wisconsin

Digital ID: cwpbh 04157   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04157 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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13. President Andrew Johnson (full length, standing)

Digital ID: cwpbh 04838   Source: digital file from original neg.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04838 (digital file from original neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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