Important and extensive Carte de Visite album with numerous exposed personalities from the fields of politics, business, culture and science. Contains: (1) Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864 - Distinguished German composer (L. Haase & Co., Berlin). - John Ruskin 1819-1900, Art critic (Elliott & Fry, London). - Victoria Crown Princess of Prussia 1840-1901 - Eldest child of Victoria & Albert (L. Haase & Co., Berlin) U.S. Presidents through A. Johnson (2) Anon. Anon. Maximillian 1832-1867 & Carlotta 1840-1927. Emperor and Empress of Mexico J. Stuart Mill (John Stuart Mill) 1806-1873 - English philosopher and political economist (E. & H.T. Anthony, New York) (3) Prof. T.H. Huxley (Thomas Theodore Huxley) 1925-1895 - English biologist and anthropologist, advocate of Darwin's theory of evolution (Mora, New York) Robert Browning 1812-1889 - English poet (E. & H.T. Anthony, New York), King of Naples (John Clarck)Bjornstjerne Bjornson 1832-1910 - Norwegian writer (Claus Knudsen, Christiania) (4) Col. Marshall Lefferts 1821-1876 - Engineer involved in the development of the telegraph (E. Anthony, New York) Dr. Weston J.L.R. Agassiz (John Louis Rodolphe Agassiz) 1807-1873 - Swiss-born American biologist and geologist (Warren's Portraits, Boston). - Major Alex Shaler (Alexander Shaler) 1827-1911 - Union Army general (E. Anthony, New York) (5) Edwin Booth 1833-1893 - American actor (E. & H.T. Anthony, New York) Prince Fr. Carl (Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia) 1828-1885 (E. & H.T. Anthony, New York) (6) King of Belgium (W. & D. Downey, Newcastle-on-Tyne, London) Col. T.W. Higginson (Thomas Wentworth Higginson) 1823-1911 - American Unitarian Minister, author, abolitionist and soldier, member of the Secret Sixwho supported John Brown (Warren's, Boston) Lord Chief Justice of England (London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., London) Horace Greeley 1811-1872, American newspaper editor and publisher, founder and editor of the NY Tribune (E. & H.T. Anthony, New York) (7) Richard Cobden 1804-1865 English manufacturer and politician associated with 2 major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty (Sarony, New York) Dr. Holland Prince & Princess Leck (Sheldon & Davis, Kingston) Mrs. Mary Dodge (Mary Mapes Dodge) 1831-1905 - American children's author, best known for her novel Hans Brinker (Warren, Boston) (8) Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 -British poet (E. & H.T. Anthony, New York) Ernest Rénan 1823-1892 - French Orientalist and Semitic scholar (J.M. Lopez, Paris) Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1784-1865 - British statesman, twice Prime Minister of the U.K. Queen Victoria 1819-1901 (Sheldon & Davis) (9) Charles Willliam Elliot 1834-1926 - President of Harvard 1869-1909 (Warren's, Boston) Joaquin Miller 1837-1913 - American poet, author, and frontiersman (Warren's, Boston) Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers 1797-1877 - French statesman and historian (Disderi, Paris) Anon. (Sheldon & Davis) (10) Christopher Newman Hall 1816-1902 - English Nonconformist divine, supported Lincoln and the abolition of slavery (Warren's, Boston) William Ewart Gladstone 1809-1898 - British statesman and Liberal politicians, Prime Minister of the U.K. (Elliot & Fry, London) Brougham (11) Dean Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn Stanley) 1815-1882 - English Anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian, co-founder of Palestine Exploration Fund (Sarony, New York) Mark Twain 1835-1910 - American writer (Warren's, Boston) Emperor & Empress of France Matthew Arnold 1822-1888 - English poet and critic (Elliott & Fry, London) (12) Russell Charles Reade 1814-1884 - English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth (C. Ferranti, Liverpool) John Motley 1814-1877 - American author and diplomat, discouraged European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the Civil War (Brady's National Portrait Gallery, Washington) Louisa Alcott (Louisa May Alcott) 1832-1888 - American author, best known for her novel Little Women (Howell, New York) ... For further details see our homepage.