Dignitaries and Events

Group portraits of historical dignitaries in formal wear, highlighting aristocratic fashion and ceremonial gatherings from the early 20th century.

Susan Carey, Gov. J.M. Carey & wife, Dorothy Knight
Susan Carey, Gov. J.M. Carey & wife, Dorothy Knight
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'Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Starting for a Drive from the Chateau Thorenc, Cannes', 1898, (c1900). British prime minister and politician William Gladstone in the south of France with his wife. Engraving after a photograph. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
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J.B. Wells
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Photograph of Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874-1937) Italian inventor and electrical engineer with his wife on board his Yatch 'Elettra'. Dated 1925
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12/31/1934. Actress Shirley Temple.
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Mahatma Gandhi NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox
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Photograph of King George VI with his wife and two daughters, Princess Margaret (right) and Princess Elizabeth (left) and Jan Smuts in South Africa. George VI (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002). Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002). Princess Elizabeth (1926-) Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Field Marshall Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. Dated 20th Century
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First Lady Grace Coolidge Taking Oath before Voting by Mail, White House Lawn, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, October 30, 1924
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Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando, Sonnino
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Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Polish-born German revolutionary and political agitator, addressing a meeting after the Second International Social Democrativ Congress, Stuttgart, 1907. Founder member with Karl Liebknecht of the KPD, the German Communist Party.
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R. Tagore
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A spread from The Sketch magazine with photographs depicting some of the guests attending the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923. On the let hand page are former and future Prime Ministers, Mr Asquith, Mr Churchill and Mr Lloyd George. Interestingly, Earl and Countess Spencer, the grandparents of the future Diana, Princess of Wales are shown in the middle top picture. On the right are other society figures and members of t
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Victoria Martin Woodhull, approximately 1900-1927? , Feminists, United States, Suffragists. Victoria Woodhull Martin Papers
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Franklin D. Roosevelt posing with his camera at the Delano homestead in Fairhaven, MA en route to Groton, MA September 1897
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Early Incidents In The Life Of The Royal Family -- H. M. The Queen and three of her sons in the *****. L to R: The Duke of Gloucester, H. M. the Queen, the Duke ***** and the Duke of Kent. May 06, 1935. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited)
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King George VI - Childhood & Early Pics. November 15, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto)
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Claire Rochester
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King Edward VII, a frequent visitor to the French resort of Biarritz, pictured talking to the Master of the Biarritz hunt. Date: 1906
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Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) the German composer in 1926 with his son, on board Lloyd Triestino's ship 'Cleopatra' en route for Greece. Date: 1926
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia , Historic buildings, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia , Historic buildings, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States