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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: 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...] [$]
![[picture: Nelson at Trafalgar.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/283-Nelson-at-Trafalgar-q75-155x200.jpg "[picture: Nelson at Trafalgar.]")
![[picture: Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-152x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women]")
Front Cover, Great Men and Famous Women
A plain binding with gold lettering. [$]
![[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: The Marseillaise]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/wm/big/253-The-Marseillaise-q80-267x200.jpg "[picture: The Marseillaise]")
It was at this time [in 1792] that the formidable invasion under the Duke of Brunswick, consisting of 138,000 men, of whom 66,000 were under the King of Prussia in person, and 50,000 were Austrians under Prince Hohenlohe and Marshal Clairfait, marched to France, and menaced Dumouriez, who occupied the defiles of Varennes, with very inferior forces. [...] [more...] [$]
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