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![[picture: Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-380x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women]")
Images from Great Men and Famous Women, an American book from 1894 featuring pen and pencil sketches of famous people together with engravings and also notes on them by well-known writers.
The book was published and printed in the USA before 1922 and hence is in the public domain.
It was edited by Charles Francis Horne (1870 – 1942), a prolific writer who taught English for 43 years at City College of New York.
Despite the book title, the people featured seem to be almost entirely male.
Title: Great Men and Famous Women, vol. II
Published by: Selmar Hess
City: New York
Date: 1894
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-152x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women]")
Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women
A plain binding with gold lettering. [$]
![[picture: Hannibal from an old coin]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/014-hannibal-q75-200x200.jpg "[picture: Hannibal from an old coin]")
![[picture: Sheridan's Ride by T. Buchanan Read]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/362-Sheridan's-Ride-q75-138x200.jpg "[picture: Sheridan's Ride by T. Buchanan Read]")
Sheridan’s Ride by T. Buchanan Read
“[Philip Sheridan]’s next operations, however, were the most important, as they have become the most renowned, in his career. Passing through Strasburg [USA], he posted his troops on the further bank of Cedar Creek, while he himself, on October 16th [1864], went to Washington in response to a request from Secretary Stanton, for consultation. Before [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Nelson at Trafalgar.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/283-Nelson-at-Trafalgar-q75-155x200.jpg "[picture: Nelson at Trafalgar.]")
![[picture: Hannibal Crossing the Rhone]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/014-hannibal-chrossing-the-rhone-q75-302x200.jpg "[picture: Hannibal Crossing the Rhone]")
This painting shows an elephant with a small castle built on it, battlements and all, and people inside that tower. The elephant stands on a raft which men are moving apparently with giant oars resembling shovels on pivots, and punting or fishing with spears. Two shirtless men are in a smaller boat that seems to have the ends of giant logs in it that [...] [more...] [$]
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