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Virginia novelist, poet, and writer John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), engraving by an unknown artist. J. E. Cooke was first cousin to J. E. B. Stuart's wife, Flora, and Stuart's aide...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), ruler of the USSR from 1929 until 1953, painting by Isaak Brodsky, 1937.

Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), a prominent member of the Bolshevik Revolution and the ruling Soviet Communist Party, photographed in the 1920s.

On the left, a 1937 photograph at the Volga dam showing, in the centre, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), and, to the right, the leader of the NKVD secret police, Nikolai Ezhov. Ezhov fell out of favour with...

Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky (born 1893), hero of the USSR until his execution in 1937 during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Photograph taken in 1936.

Union battery with 13-inch (330 mm) seacoast mortars, Model 1861, during the Siege of Yorktown at the start of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Photograph by James F. Gibson, 1862...

Battle of Malvern Hill, watercolor painting by Robert Knox Sneden during the American Civil War at Malvern Hill in Henrico County, Virginia, 1 July 1862. Sneden was the mapmaker for Samuel...

US President James A. Garfield and his family seated around a table. Lithograph by E. P. & L. Restein, circa 1881. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

The assassination of James A. Garfield, engraving by A. Berghaus and C. Upham, originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on 16 July 1881.

Official White House Portrait of US President James A. Garfield. Oil on canvas by Calvin Curtis, 1881. White House, Washington, D.C.