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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: Hannibal Crossing the Rhone]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/014-hannibal-chrossing-the-rhone-q75-200x132.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...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page, Great Men and Famous Women]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-142x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, Great Men and Famous Women]")
Title Page, Great Men and Famous Women
Great Men and Famous Women
A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history [more...] [$]
![[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]")
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![[picture: Nebuchadnezzar]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/004-nebuchadnezzar-124x200.jpg "[picture: Nebuchadnezzar]")
![[picture: Nelson at Trafalgar.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/283-Nelson-at-Trafalgar-q75-155x200.jpg "[picture: Nelson at Trafalgar.]")
