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Eastern Europe

Marcus Jastrow

Another Polish rabbi, here shown wearing a fancy "wheel cap" style head covering.  On the wiki article is another photograph of him from much later, in which his head is uncovered.

Adolf Jellinek

A Kabbalist, he did not wear a kippah.  Here we see the trend of "new" branches of Judaism not wearing kippot, a trend that would continue with the early Reform movement.

Malbim

Surprisingly, Rav Malbin doesn't seem to wear a head covering either, even though he seems to be considered an Orthodox Rabbi.

Nahum Trebitsch

Rav. Trebitsch wore a tall and large round hat, similar to what was worn in Moscow and also Constantinople.  This seems much more typical for Eastern Europe in the late 18th / early 19th Centuries.