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Title: Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Format: photograph: print
Description: Photogravure reproduction of a painted portrait, done by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) in 1842, of Faraday as a young man. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin, ca 1910.

Title: Portrait of Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
Format: photograph: print
Description: Photogravure reproduction of engraved print of Italian physicist Count Alessandro Volta portrait, original done by Giovita Garavaglia (1790-1835) [possibly after portrait done by Bettoni]. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin, ca 1910.

Title: Portrait of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907)
Format: photograph: print
Description: Photogravure after a photo portrait of Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist and engineer, Lord Kelvin as an older man. Dickinson, London. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin, ca 1910.

Title: Portrait of Wilbur Wright (1867-1912)
Format: photograph: print
Description: Photogravure reproduction of charcoal-sketched portrait of Wilbur Wright, which was done by famous sketch artist Leo Mielziner (1869-1935), and is signed and dated by the artist. The sketch was done during Wilbur Wright’s 1908 visit and participation at the Hunaudieres Race Course and Camp d’Auvours, near Le Mans. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin, ca 1910.

Title: Portrait of James Watt (1736-1819)
Format: photograph: print
Description: Photogravure reproduction after an oil painting of the Scottish inventor and engineer James Watt, seated at a desk, with the plans of a rotative beam engine and a 1788 condenser with a wooden frame draped across the desk. The oil painting was done in 1792 by Swedish painter Carl Fredrik von Breda (1759-1818) when the artist visited Watt in Birmingham. The original is on display in Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin, ca 1910.