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Early 20th Century American Politicians

Black and white portraits of American politicians, showcasing formal attire and solemn expressions, reflecting the era's style and social status.

JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER US Financier. Received nearly 90 million dollars in cash and stock due to the formation of the US Steel Corporation. Date: 1839 - 1937

Judge Wescott

Caillaux as franc Dictator.M. Joseph Caillaux, who, at the age of seventy two, is for the sixth time French Minister of Finance, with dictatorial powers for five months. June 03, 1935. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd)

Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), English-born Zionist and writer, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Portrait Of The Rev. Arthur G. O'Neill (1819-1896), 1885. By Jonathon Pratt

Archibald Vivian Hill. Photograph.

Photograph of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) a Finnish composer and violinist of the late-Romantic and early-modern period. Dated 20th Century

Anefo / London photo collection. Mr.dr. G.A. Scheltus. 1940-1945}

Sir John Longstaff. Artist on behalf of the *****. May 18, 1940.

JULES MASSENET French composer Date: 1842 - 1912

British Politicians: Rt. Hon. James Chuter Ede, P.C., M.P Labour Member of Parliament for South Shields since 1935. He was Home Secretary in Mr. Attlee's Government, 1945-51, and Leader of the House of Commons in 1951. August 03, 1955. (Photo by Cyril Bernard, Camera Press).

John D. Rockefeller, at the beginning of his 40 year 'retirement' in 1900. Studio portrait by Oscar White (BSLOC_2016_8_9)

United States Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama ca. 1905-1920.

John Freeman. Photograph.

05/31/1917. The founder of the "diario de Cádiz", Mr. Federico Joly, whose golden anniversary with the press has just been celebrated.

Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey

Herbert Henry Asquith, British Liberal statesman, c1913. Artist: Unknown

John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937, American Industrialist

MAC MILLAN , SIR HAROLD. POLITICO BRITANICO 1894 - 1986.

12/31/1939. Andres Maurois.

Thomas A. Edison. October 7, 1954. (Photo by Wide World Photos).

Stephen Smith

Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933), British Foreign Secretary, First World War, 1914. Artist: HW Barnett

James F. Leonard , Mayors. Lawrence

Grazio Forgione, the father of Pio of Pietralcina.

Portrait of Josef Anton Bruckner, 1824 - 1896, Austrian composer, digitally edited

Portrait, Nathaniel Bowditch, 1773-1838 by Chas Osgood , Portrait paintings, Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

W.G. McAdoo

George Eastman, American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film.

RALPH RICHARDSON.

Portrait of the Italian writer Alfredo Panzini.

Carl G. Jung (26 July 1875 - 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who was most famous for founding analytical psychology.

A portrait of Doctor Ludwig Wüllner by Nicola Perscheid, printed on silver gelatin (Bromsilbergelatine) paper, preserved in its original box after 1925.

Judge John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court - became known as the "Great Dissenter" for his fiery dissent in Plessy and other early civil rights cases. Circa 1870

Henry Salem Hubbell (1870-1949), US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,1935

LLUIS ARGEMI. PRESIDENTE DE LA DIPUTACIÓN DE CATALUÑA. 1943-1946.

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan circa 1905-1911.

LARGO CABALLERO, FRANCISCO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1869-1946. OLEO DE L. QUINTANILLA. MINISTERIO DE TRABAJO. MADRID. Author: LUIS QUINTANILLA ISASI.

Sir Ronald Ross. Photograph by Reginald Haines.

1966. Portrait of Julio Dánvila Rivera.

Frederick Arthur Stanley (1841-1908), 'Men of Mark', sixteenth Earl of Derby.Governor-General of Canada 1888-1893. London 1877. Woodburytype.

Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood. Photograph by Elliott & Fry Ltd.

Ante Trumbić Croatian Politician ca. 1938

Joseph Maurice Ravel 1875-1937 French composer. After a photography., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

06/27/1935. Image made to make a commemorative stamp for the 40th anniversary of the invention of cinema in France.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT 32nd President of the USA in the year of his election Date: 1882 - 1945

SIR WILLIAMS BEVERIDGE (1928). Author: WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1979). WILLIAMS BEVERIDGE (1879-1963).

British Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, in 1922. He led a wartime coalition government with the Conservatives from 1916ñ1922, during and immediately after, the First World War. He was one of the Big-4 at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (BSLOC_2017_1_69)

Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (1870-1945). "Portrait of Branly (1844-1940), physicist". Paris, Carnavalet museum. 35735-15 Seated, French physicist, portrait, scientist

Lloyd George. January 19, 1949.

Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. Photograph by J. Russell & Sons.

Portrait Of Sir Edward George Jenkinson (1836-1919), 1906 By Sir Hubert von Herkomer, Oil Painting, Portrait, Male

CHAMBERLAIN, ARTHUR NEVILLE POLITICO INGLES. 1869-1940.

William McKinley (1843-1901), 25th President of the United States 1897-1901, Seated Portrait, Photograph by Charles Milton Bell, between 1890's

Photographic portrait of Edward White Benson (1829-1896), pictured when serving as Bishop of Truro between 1877 and 1883. Benson went on to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury. Date: c.1877

Photograph portrait of William Ballantine (1812-1887), Serjeant-at-Law, pictured c.1880. He was known professionally as 'Serjeant Ballantine'. Date: 1880

Alfred Cort Haddon. Photograph.

Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880-1952 British) Ackermann and Johnson Ltd, London, England

Portrait of Jethro Anstice Cossins, 1912. By Jethro Anstice Cossins

Bishop H. M. Turner. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American authors, African American bishops, Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915

Black and White Illustration; Portrait of Lord Rosebery, British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1894 -95

LISZT , FRANZ. COMPOSITOR HUNGARO . 1811-1886.

Henry Ford, American engineer and automobile manufacturer, c1910-c1930. Artist: Unknown

Eugene Debs, 1923

Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist, c1930s. Artist: Unknown.

Josep Maria de Sagarra Castellarnau (1894-1961), poeta, novelista, dramaturgo, periodista y traductor catalán.

The New Dean of Westminster -- The Rt. Rev. Paul Fulcrand Delacour De La Billiere, photographed at his desk at his home in Little Cloisters today.The Right Rev. Paul Fulcrand Delacour De La Billiere, Bishop Suffragan of Knaresborough and Archdeacon of Leeds since 1934, has been appointed Dean of Westminster to succeed the late Dr. William Foxley Norris. The new Dean is 58 years of age and will receive £3,000 a year. He was a chaplain to the forces during the early part of the war. November 18, 1937. (Photo by Keystone).

William Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, 1835-1909 British Liberal politician. Speaker of the house of commons 1895-1905

LIBERIA - 1982: shows President Warren G. Harding 1921-1923, series the Presidents of the USA LIBERIA - CIRCA 1982: A stamp printed in Liberia shows President Warren G. Harding 1921-1923, series the Presidents of the USA, circa 1982 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 5214771

Zaro Agha, who is said to be 157 years of age, in London on Arrival from the United States. He is a Kurd has been married eleven times. Only one is his twenty-eight children is still alive. June 12, 1931. (Photo by Central News)

Stacy Aumonier (1887-1929), British writer, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Berlin, Germany: 1928 A portrait of noted German philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff on his 80th birthday.

GEORGE C. SCOTT in A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1984).

Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), an English author and Rector in North Devon. Date: 1893

Photograph of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) an English composer of operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces. Dated 20th Century

United States Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer circa 1905-1910.

A New Judge -- Mr. Justice Atkinson, the new Judge of the King's Bench division who takes the ***** of the late Mr. Justice McCardie. July 17, 1933. (Photo by Sports & General Press Agency Limited).

Portrait of Senator Robert LaFollette, progressive from Wisconsin

Thomas Alva Edison examining his phonograph recording apparatus, digitally edited

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