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[b]Adam Smith was an economist who wrote [i]The Wealth of Nations[/i]. [/b]Born June 16, 1723, in Scotland.\n\nPortrait of Adam Smith is from [i]The National and Domestic History of England: Volume the Third[/i] By William Hickman Smith Aubrey. Published in 1867 in London. The publication is now in the public domain as the copyright protection has expired. \n\nI've selected interesting, old 19th century graphic images for digital restoration and editing. The images were enhanced, adjusted, and brightened to make the images suitable for display and other purposes.
Simon Bolivar (1783 - 1830) Portrait from Venezuelan Banknotes. Venezuelan military and political leader
Portrait of Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (Paul Kruger), 3rd State President of the South African Republic (1825 - 1904). Vintage photo etching circa late 19th century.
Double exposure of portrait of U.S. presidents Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton
Antique photograph of Amédée Courbet a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86) and the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885).
Ninomiya Sontoku a closeup portrait from old Japanese yen
Stone slab with the face of a man
China postage stamp: 2010,Johann Sebastian Bach.
Shoqan Walikhanov (1835-1865) portrait from old Kazakhstan banknote
Portrait of General Sir Charles Warren (1840 - 1927). Vintage photo etching circa late 19th century. Warren is most famous for being the police commissioner that investigated the Jack the Ripper murders from 1886 to 1888.
Portrait of U.S. president Alexander Hamilton.
Vintage photograph of Oscar de Négrier, French army General, 19th Century. French general of the Third Republic, winning fame in Algeria in the Sud-Oranais campaign (1881) and in Tonkin during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1887).
Matthew Boulton a closeup portrait from English money - pound
Shot of an aristocratic man at his writing table
Cancelled Stamp From Venezuela Featuring Simon Bolivar
Image from 19th century
Jose Felix Ribas (1775 - 1815). Portrait from Venezuela Banknotes
Portrait of Major-General Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, 6th Commander of the Canadian Army (1848 - 1923). Vintage photo etching circa late 19th century.
Aurel Vlaicu cut from 50 Romanian lei banknote for design purpose
Vintage photograph of Ernst Schweninger, a German physician and naturopath who developed the Schweninger method, a reduction of obesity by the restriction of fluids in the diet. 19th Century
Napoleon Bonaparte a portrait from French money
Engraving of german writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from 1882 ( Copy of a painting from 1829 )
Postage stamp Romania 1955 printed in Romania shows Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), a writer, circa 1955
Engraving made in 1890 of Aesop by Velazquez who painted the original in 1640.
Vintage elements of old paper banknotes.Fragment  banknote for design purpose.Russian Empire 100 rubles 1910.Bonistics
He is the most famous person of our small town: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
A drawing of Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj as depicted on Dinar banknote on a white background
Peter the Great or Peter Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1682 until his death
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