W.S. Hartshorn, Edgar Allan Poe, Providence, Rhode Island, 1848.
Source: Library of Congress

W.S. Hartshorn, Edgar Allan Poe, Providence, Rhode Island, 1848.

Source: Library of Congress

English actor Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in “Our American Cousin,” ca. 1858.

English actor Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in “Our American Cousin,” ca. 1858.

Mozaffar-ed-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia from 1896-1907.

Mozaffar-ed-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia from 1896-1907.

August Strindberg, Self-portrait, 1892-1893.

August Strindberg, Self-portrait, 1892-1893.

Peruvian politician Manuel González Prada, 1915.

Peruvian politician Manuel González Prada, 1915.

Russell & Sons, Wilhelm II of Germany, ca. 1890.

Russell & Sons, Wilhelm II of Germany, ca. 1890.

Carl Van Vechten, Salvador Dali, 29 November 1939.
Source: Carl Van Vechten collection, Library of Congress

Carl Van Vechten, Salvador Dali, 29 November 1939.

Source: Carl Van Vechten collection, Library of Congress

A guard on duty at the Festetics Palace. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. Keszthely, Hungary, 1938.

A guard on duty at the Festetics Palace. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. Keszthely, Hungary, 1938.

A mustachioed man wearing a steel helmet with built-on chain screen to protect  soldiers’ eyes from fragments of shell, rock, etc. during World War I. Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1918.

A mustachioed man wearing a steel helmet with built-on chain screen to protect soldiers’ eyes from fragments of shell, rock, etc. during World War I. Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1918.