Historical Icons Collection
Inventors, composers, escapologists, scientists, and more are in our historical icons collection. You will find household names such as Alfred Einstein and Thomas Edison, and some lesser-known people such as General Ambrose Burnside.
We have a range of prints available in our online shop which will provide a unique artwork for your home.
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More From The Collection
Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921Original photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer.
"Migrant Mother"Photographed by Dorothea Lange on March 9, 1936. “Migrant Mother” was one of six images shot by Lange near Nipomo, California during the Great Depression.
Original photograph: Dorothea Lange
Colourised by Touch The Past
Original photograph: Dorothea Lange
Colourised by Touch The Past
Abandoned FarmAbandoned Farm in Mechanized Wheat Fields, Oklahoma, about 1938.
Photographer Dorothea Lange, colourised by Touch The Past
Image courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum
Photographer Dorothea Lange, colourised by Touch The Past
Image courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum
Chief Ouray & Chipeta (Ute Tribe)From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.
Franz Liszt, March 1886Original photograph Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon). Colourised by Touch The Past.
Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie2 times Nobel Prize winner who lead early, groundbreaking research on radioactivity.
Marie Curie and Linus Pauling are the only two people to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in two different fields.
Simply one of the greatest scientists in history.
Original photograph by Henri Manuel, colourised by Touch The Past.
Marie Curie and Linus Pauling are the only two people to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in two different fields.
Simply one of the greatest scientists in history.
Original photograph by Henri Manuel, colourised by Touch The Past.
Thomas Crapper, populariser of the flush toilet.Original photographer is unknown.
Sergei RachmaninoffOne of the most gifted composers and pianists of the late romantic era.
Photo National Library of Congress, colourised by Touch The Past.
Photo National Library of Congress, colourised by Touch The Past.
Edvard Grieg, 1907.Photographer unknown.
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, May 1909Original photograph from the Garlow Collection.
Harry Houdini in handcuffs 1918The greatest escapologist!
General Ambrose BurnsideGeneral Ambrose Burnside. His impressive chops inspired the term “burnsides” which later transformed into “sideburns”.