Early 20th Century Delegates and Socialites

Photos of early 20th-century social and political figures in formal wear, reflecting the fashion and social dynamics of their time.

Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Bishop with Clifford Harmon

U. Woodson & Mrs. H.G. Foster (Delegate from Tacoma, Wash.)

Mrs. B. Forbes Robertson

Paderewski & wife

H. Latham, Count DeLesseps & sister

Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Bishop with Clifford Harmon

E. Caruso, 2/20/15

Mrs. Payne Whitney

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie on street

Mrs. Cornelius Tangeman

H.S. Pritchett, A. Carnegie

Dr. Robert Koch and wife

Mrs. N. Mack, Mrs. Wm. H. Taft, L.L. Francis, Mildred Aubry

Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Countess Hohenberg, Countess Baillet de Latour

N.B. Scott, ex-Sen. & wife

Bill James, Eddie Campi, Jess Willard

A. i.e.,Arturo Toscanini

Annette Kellerman

King George V of the United Kingdom, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales (Prince Edward) at the opening of the Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace, London, May 12, 1911.

J.P. Mitchel and wife

Clarence Mackay -- J.W. Gerard

Florence Hinkle

Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) and his wife Dorothy Mary (nee Paget, 1876-1953), returning to the UK from South Africa, where he had been serving as First Governor-General since May 1910. Date: 1914

Count von Bernstoff & Mrs. Preston Gibson

Elsevier photo collection. Kinderaubade Queen's Day Palace Het Loo - Queen Prince Bernhard. August 31, 1937. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

Baron E. DeMarcay, J. Kluytmans

G. Von L. Meyer, Wm. Loeb

Frank Hague and his wife aboard an ocean liner in 1925. Frank Hague(1876-1976) was the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1917 to 1947. He epitomized the political boss of the period, but was instrumental in Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 nomination of Democratic Presidential candidate.

Heifetz

Mr and Mrs Astor. Mr and Mrs Astor, First Class passengers on Titanic. Madeleine Force and John Jacob Astor had been on an extended honeymoon in Egypt and Paris and in the spring of 1912, decided to return to America on board Titanic. They boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with Colonel Astor's manservant Mr Victor Robbins , Mrs Astor's maid Miss Rosalie Bidois and their pet Airedale Kitty. Also accompanying the Astors was Mrs Astor's private nurse Miss Caroline Louise Endres. Madeleine Astor was

Anefo photo collection. Series: Visit Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard to Friesland. DEPILÉ Along the Bordes of the Palace of Justice to the Zaailand in Leeuwarden. September 26, 1950. Friesland, Leeuwarden

Mrs. Pancho Villa

Mayor Gaynor T. Roosevelt

C.A. Van Rensselaer & Mrs. F.J. Ostermann

Taft in West, 1908

Goebbels his wife arriving by ***** effective in Rome. August 21, 1933.

Mrs. Clare C. Lowerie, Thaw case witness

EDWARD VII At a weekend party at Taplow Court owned by Lord Desborough. The King's mistress, Alice Keppel is standing behind him, right. Date: 1908

Clarkson - Lady Howard - Thatcher - Thorn and Johnson

In defence of the Union and the Constitution. Photo shows Prince Casimir Lubomirski, Minister from Poland and Dr Tomas A. LeBreton, Ambassador from Argentine leaving the State Department after a diplomatic reception.

Norman de R. Whitehouse & wife

Aug. Belmont, Herb Harriman & wife

05/31/1911. The court at the Farm. Queen Victoria and the Prince of Asturias Upon their Arrival in Segovia to Head to San Ildefonso.

John T. Brush

W.R. Stewart Jr. -- Mrs. C. Dillingham, Richard Peters & Pavlowa

Four generations, Queen Victoria in centre, left her grandson the Prince George (future King George V), right her son the Prince of Wales Edward (the future King Edward VII), and little boy standing next to Queen Victoria her great-grandson Prince Edward (future King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor). Date: Circa 1898

Maria Montessori

05/31/1909. Madrid, the new Anti-tuberculosis sanatorium. HM the Queen Mother Mrs. María Cristina and the Infantas Mrs. Isabel and Mrs. María Teresa at the inauguration Verified yesterday Afternoon.

Harry Lauder & wife

Caruso

Bålsö fishing location, Idenors parish, Greetingland. "Archbishop Nathan Söderblom on a visit to the fishing village when he preached. He has just greeted Josefina Löjdström. Nordic

EDITORIAL Alfonso XIII, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Infanta Beatriz, Princess of Civitella-Cesi, Infanta María Cristina, Countess Marone and the duchess of Argyll at the inauguration of the Osbor

06/08/1935. The Duchess of Kent.

Lord R. Innes Kerr i.e. Innes-Ker, Mrs. Jos. S. Stevens

Upton Sinclair

Baron and Baroness de Meyer

Mrs. T.A. Edison

The King's Maundy Money.An Abbey official bids the King goodbye after the ceremony.The King and Queen attended the Royal Maundy service at Westminster Abbey today. This is the first time for a great number of years that a reigning King has attended this ceremony, which was instituted in Edward III's time in 1363. March 24, 1932.

Roosevelt at Oyster Bay

Princess Victoria Louise and husband

Prince Henry and Alice Roosevelt

New York City Police Commissioner Richard Enright and wife at Polo Grounds, New York

06/09/1919. Madrid. In the Hispano-Suiza hall. HRH the Infanta Doña Isabel (1), Visiting the interesting exhibition of Paintings by Juan Antonio Benlliure (2), Inaugurated yesterday.

Count de Lambert Prince Alexander

Enrico Caruso, 1873-1921, full-length portrait, facing right, walking with a woman, others behind them

Billy Sunday

J.J. Slattery on curb

Gatti-Casazza & A. Seligsberg

President and Mrs. Coolidge, Mother Jones, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., full-length portraits, standing, 1924

Mrs. Leonard Wood,

Sarah Bernhardt, accompanied by Squire Bancroft, disembarking at Folkestone to perform in the L'Aiglon at the London Coliseum, United Kingdom, photo from L'Illustration, No 3526, September 24, 1910.

The Wright brothers, Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948), received by President William Howard Taft (1857-1930) at the White House, 1909, Washington, United States of America, photo by Brocherel, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVI, No 27, July 4, 1909.

A.J. Drexel, Jr. & wife

09/13/1910. The court's summer vacation in San Sebastian. H.H. Mm. Queen Victoria Eugenia (1) and Queen María Cristina (2) upon arriving at the San José school that they visited the day before yesterday.

Marg. Kahn, Beatrice Byrne, Otto Kahn

Mrs. W.G. Loew

Marie Lloyd, born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870 - 1922), British music hall singer, entertainer and comedienne pictured at her wedding to her second husband, the coster comedian Alec Hurley in 1906. Date: 1906

Franklin D. Roosevelt - Franklin D. Roosevelt inauguration. Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4, 1933.

Dolly Kimbough i.e., Kimbrough and Mildred Taylor

15 small pictures of Taft on campaign trail

Mrs. Morgan Shuster and Mr. Shuster

London's New Lord Mayor Elected.The new Lord Mayor Sir Frank Bowater (right) with the retiring Lora Mayor Sir Harry Twyford after the election.Despite the international crisis the City of London carried on its traditions and elected its new Lord Mayor - 72-year-old Sir Frank Bowater.Sir Franks who was elected Sheriff in 1929 and Alderman for Castle Baynard Ward in 1931. was educated in Manchester and later became a partner in the famous firm of paper merchants established by his father. He retired some years ago.He received his knighthood for civic services- Sir Frank who served as a Territorial before the Great Year, commanded a battery in France.

Photograph of Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis, fleeing Nazi Germany for England. Circa 1938.

T. Roosevelt at Ethel's wedding

Hugh Wallace

03/11/1919. Madrid. At the North station. The former English minister Mr. Asquith (X) upon arriving at this court yesterday morning.

John McCormack & wife

William Henry Grenfell, Lord Desborough (1855-1945), pictured at his home, Taplow court near Maidenhead with his remaining son, the Hon. Ivo Grenfell, and his daughter, the Hon. Imogen Grenfell. Lord Desborough's two eldest sons, Julian and Gerald, had both been killed in 1915. Desborough was a well-known sportsman, distinctive at a height of 6 feet 5 inches. He rowed for Oxford in the 1877 Boat Race and was President of the British team at the 1908 Olympic Games. He was also a Liberal pol

T. Roosevelt at Ethel's wedding

Anefo photo collection. Princess Margriet opens t Bouwhuis in Enschede; Margriet in carriage. October 10, 1978. Enschede

Prince Olaf, Norway

Prince Oyama

President and Mrs. Roosevelt in Charleston

Paderewski

08/05/1913. From the new Retiro theater. The Artists Granieri, Patressi and Marchetti, who are part of the company that debuted the night before last.

Prince Aug. Wilhelm & wife

Helen Gould

Queen of Roumania, Prince Elizabeth, Crown Princess. Prince Carol, and Crown Prince of Germany

Future British Prime Ministers, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in 1907 during the peak of their "radical phase" as social reformers.

Gen. and Mrs. Leonard Wood

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