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Early 20th Century Men In Formal Wear

A collection of vintage portraits featuring men in formal attire, including suits and hats, exuding elegance and historical charm.

ANDREW CARNEGIE Scottish-American industrialist Date: 1835 - 1919

12/31/1905. Thuan Tai. King of Annam who has killed several of his women and relatives.

Giuseppe Mazzini, 1870.

Jack Gaxieu. January 01, 1948.

Crown Princess Rumania

Karen Blixen (1885-1962) with a greyhound, photo in the Karen Blixen house-museum, Nairobi, Kenya.

William Nees, 1900-1917, Dannevirke, by Alfred Henderson.

Duke of Connaught. January 01, 1924.

Albert of Wales

K.F. Shah

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. , Assistant Secretary of the Navy, circa 1922

E. Lamb

Jack Johnson

Hanna Olsson with a lovely hat on her head. She remained unmarried and died in 1931, 41 years old. Hanna Olsson med en härlig hatt på huvudet. Hon förblev ogift och dog 1931, 41 år gammal.

Italian aviator Renato Donati.

PETER SELLERS in BEING THERE (1979).

CHARLES LAUGHTON in CAPTAIN KIDD (1945), directed by ROWLAND V. LEE.

Lars Andersson ("Erk-Ols Lars"), Hällbo. Lars Andersson ("Erk-Ols Lars"), Hällbo.

Photograph of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII,who spent a few months in the navy under the care of Captain Henry Hervey Campbell and took part in the manoevres of the Home Fleet in Lamlash Bay, Arran. Date: 1911

Harry Hawker

Richard Butler

Farouk, the beloved, handsome prince who came to the throne too young... August 30, 1937. (Photo by The Associated Press Ltd.).

El torero Nicanor Villalta.

FREDRIC MARCH in ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936), directed by MERVYN LEROY.

01/01/1956. Mario Moreno Cantinflas in the role of Passepartout in "Around the World in 80 Days".

Enrico Caruso. 1915

Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion 1910-1913, pictured with Mr C. T. Craig, managing director of the firm Messrs. Henderson, Craig & Company Ltd, a wood-pulps merchants in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Mr Craig was the father of one of Wilding's Cambridge friends and Wilding started at the company in July 1911, immediately after he had won the Wimbledon championship for a second time. His job was full-time and

05/17/1911. The notable aviator Weymann.

Exhibit Supply Company Picture Post Card, Ricardo Cortez. This item is a picture post card used as an exhibit in the case of J. Frank Meyer, Trading as the Exhibit Supply Company v. Louis Hurwitz, Trading as United Postcard Supply Company. Issued by Exhibit Supply Company, this post card features Ricardo Cortez..

J.C.P. Wood

Lord Grey, c1882. Artist: Unknown

06/30/1914. Parliamentary Figures. Mr. José María Garay, senator.

Photographic portrait of Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859-1941). Dated 19th Century

Photograph of Emperor Hirohito of Japan by Hebert P. Bix and David McNeill. Dated 1935

Sinclair Lewis, American writer

Portrait Of James Joyce

Walter Reginald 'Wally' Hammond (1903-1965 English Test cricketer. Photograph.

12/31/1931. The writer Azorín, in his Creative maturity, when he toured Spain taking notes in his inseparable little notebooks.

Churchill Looks Fit - Leaves Chartwell For Chequers : Looking very fit, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill leaves his home at Chartwell, Kent, for Chequers, the Premier's official country residence. to-day (Friday). This is the first tire Sir Winston has been photographed since doctors ordered him to rest a month ago. Sir Winston in 1953 - think neck and heavy shoulders combined to give him the appearance of a bull of a man. July 24, 1953. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Gen. Washington Schumann - Heink, standing with ball, 5 1/4 years, photo: Hahn Nachf., Dresden, Ferdinand Str.

Portrait of the author Maxim Gorky (1868-1939) painted in 1904. by Vladimir Serov (1865-1911), Russian artist.

Edouard Pailleron, French poet and dramatist, 1875. Artist: Unknown

Pug In The Pink -- Gentleman Jack Gardner with one of his hunters.....Yoicks! Tally Ho!.. It's gentleman Jack Himself. He's a Pug In The Pink, is heavyweight boxer Jack Gardner, who farms at East Langton, near market Harborough, Leicestershire. But just let him climb in the saddle, follow the call of the hunting horn - and he'll be poorer by £5000.That's the penalty-promoter Reg King will demand if Jack, former British heavyweight Champion, joins the chase before April 4, the date of his next fight. February 28, 1955. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).

Miss Wright studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

The Huston Mount Everest Flight -- Squadron leader the Marquis of Clydesdale, R.A.F., another member of the expedition. February 9, 1933.

King George 1905 in Highland Dress. May 15, 1937.

01/31/1912. Parliamentary Figures. The representative of the Conservative minority and former Minister of Finance Don Augusto González-Besada.

01/28/1919. The new Minister of Panama, Mr. Antonio de Burgos (X), upon leaving the Palace, after presenting his Letters of Credence.

WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874 - 1965) British statesman Date: 1924

CAMILLE GROULT French industrialist, art patron and collector of French and English art, photographed in 1903. Date: 1837 - 1908

Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, during his two year residence in Europe while Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi) took over the Iranian government (1923-25). In 1925 the Majlis (Iranian Legislature) formally terminated his monarchy.

Carrie Nation.

Portrait of Prince Henry, fourth child and third son of George V and Queen Mary. Date: 1910

Jack Johnson

The Life Of Winston Churchill -- Winston Churchill, in costume for House of Commons side, who defeated the House of Lords at Pole at Ranelagh, on July 18, 1925. Pictures illustrating some of the outstanding events in the life of the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, who has been soldier, statesman and author in his long and varied career. February 26, 1952.

The Evans family, Saxby 1914: Charlie. From the album: Snapshot album - Ruatea, 1914, maker unknown.

W.K. Vanderbilt

Joseph Chamberlain, British Liberal statesman, c1905.Artist: John Benjamin Stone

The Life Of Winston Churchill -- Winston Churchill, in costume for House of Commons side, who defeated the House of Lords at Polo at Ranelagh, on July 18, 1925. Pictures illustrating some of the interesting events in the life of the Prime Minister Mr. Winston Churchill, who has been author, statesman and solider in his long and varied career. February 26, 1952. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Sir Reader Bullard, British Minister in *****. April 07, 1951.

Lloyd George Strolls on farm at 80 British Prime Minister in the world war and coiner of the Phrase "too little, too late" in this one, David Lloyd George Strolls about his Farm at Churt, surrey, on the eye of his 80th Birthday. Jan 17. January 26, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Plaque Portrait of Benjamin Franklin 1776-1883 After Jean-Baptiste Nini Italian. Plaque Portrait of Benjamin Franklin 471

Poll photo collection. Rome: The papal Swiss Guard in Vatican City. Captain Umberto Aebischa poses in large gala. December 1937. Italy, Rome, Vatican City

Frank Buck. September 14, 1936.

12/31/1920. The world boxing championship. Georges Carpentier, who yesterday had to compete in the championship in Jersey City (New York), where a circus capable of holding 50,000 spectators was purposely built (photo Underwood).

Queen Elizabeth - Herald Obituary - 1960/66 - British Royalty. April 21, 1939.

Dowager Duchess Of Gloucester - Scenes Prior -1948. November 25, 1935.

Algerian

Photograph of Winston Churchill 1929.

Crown Prince of Italy, 1915

Princess Irina Youssoupoff, niece of Tsar Nicholas II and wife of Felix Youssoupoff who is pictured in a fancy dress costume. Prince Felix Youssoupoff came from a wealthy, aristocratic Russian family (1886-1967) and was a distant relative of the Tsar. In 1916, along with four other Russian aristocrats, he was responsible for the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the holy monk who exerted heavy influence on the Imperial couple, particularly the Tsaritsa, Alexandra who believe Rasputin could cure her ha

A photograph of Harry Houdini locked in chains. Harry Houdini (1874-1926) a Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer.

LAURENCE OLIVIER in WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939), directed by WILLIAM WYLER.

Postcard photo of Harry S. Truman taken in France during World War I. Noted on the reverse of the postcard "Given to John A. Hatfield in France in 1918 - returned to Harry S. Truman in January, 1962.

Louis Mountbatten wheels his cousin, the Prince of Wales, at a gymkhana in Malta, 1936. Artist: Unknown

Premier Forms War Cabinet of Nine. Mr. Churchill back at Admiralty. A War Cabinet of nine has been set up ***** line of that established in December *****. It was announced the king had approved it ***** constitution. It includes the Rt. Hon Winston Churchill as first Lord of the Admiralty, a position he held at the bingeing of the Great war. Mr. Winston Churchill arriving at the admiralty with his baggage to take up his new position as first Lord of the Admiralty. September 04, 1939. (Photo by Sports And General Press Agency Limited).

Winston S. Churchill 1874 to 1965 on horseback in Bangalore India in 1897 from A Roving Commission by Winston S. Churchill published by Scribners 1930

Portrait of Norah Schuster by Mrs. Wilkinson.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 30 January 1948). Preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

A.G. Vanderbilt

Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations. During the First World War, she earned the nickname, 'Britain's best recruiting sergeant,' with a number of patriotic war songs she performed at various shows and revues. She is pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in the role of Tommy home from the front at the London Coliseum where she delighted audiences with the song, 'Six Days Home on Leave.' The Tatler confirms tha

FRED ASTAIRE in SWING TIME (1936), directed by GEORGE STEVENS.

Winston S. Churchill 1874 to 1965 on horseback in Bangalore India in 1897 from A Roving Commission by Winston S. Churchill published by Scribners 1930, Winston S. Churchill published by Scribners 1930, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

'Hjalmar Johansen', 1893, (1897). Artist: Unknown.

Henry Donahue

Ballad of Eufemio Zapata - brother of Emiliano Zapata, an active figure in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Date: circa 1910

Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Caricature of Sir William Bartlett Dalby by "Spy"

Kreisler

Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Tung-sean, Chinese Minister of State, Peking

RUDOLPH VALENTINO in THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921), directed by REX INGRAM (DIRECTOR).

October 10, 1937 - Hermann Goering, full-length, at Carinhall, N. Prussia

MAURICE ROLLINAT French poet and musician who considered, probably mistakenly, that he was a greater poet than Baudelaire ; photographed in 1902. Date: 1846 - 1903

British archaeologist, soldier, intelligence officer and writer, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia, in traditional Arab costume. Date: circa 1914-18

BISMARCK, Otto-Leopold, Prince of (1815-1898). German statesman. Bismarck in Friedrichruhe. Engraving.

Edward, Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor, pictured in 1914 when he joined the Grenadier Guards. Date: 1935

Photograph of King Cetshwayo, taken after he was captured at the end of the Zulu wars Date: 1879

THEODORE ROOSEVELT Y EL CORRESPONSAL RICHARD HARDING DAVIS-FOTOGRAFIA.

F.K. Lane Jr.

Patsy Kline

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