Early 20th Century Personalities

Black and white photographs of distinguished men in formal suits, reflecting the fashion and societal norms of their era.

Wm. E. Werner

'Comte De Nion.', c1893. Artist: Eugene Pirou.

TC A Murray (Chairman of the Railway Association) 1880-88)

Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) American physicist who worked on measuring the speed of light and for the Michelson-Morley experiment. Awarded Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907.

Photograph of George Neville Watson (1886-1965) an English mathematician. Dated 20th Century

E.B. Vreeland

Welch, Joseph (1851-1928) ,

HENRY CHARLES KEITH FITZ- MAURICE, fifth marquess of LANSDOWNE statesman, governor-general of Canada, viceroy of India. Date: 1845 - 1927

S. Van Santvoord

Gen. Juan V. Gomez, Pres't Venez.

Sir Edward William Elgar (1857-1934). English composer. Portrait.

G.J. Kindel -- Colo. ca. 1914 .

05/31/1912. Count of Romanones.

M. De Laval

Anefo photo collection. Marcel Proust (head), philosopher. January 9, 1967

12/31/1909. Don Niceto Alcalá Zamora.

'Doumergue (Gaston)', c1893. Artist: Eugene Pirou.

Ernest Rutherford (18711937), 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, known as the 'father of nuclear physics'

BENITO PEREZ GALDOS (1843-1920). Novelista español. S. XIX-XX (S. XIX-S. XX). Fotografía.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - It is taken from the portrait of Sir Arthur painted by Sidney Paget, the artist who was responsible for the original illustrations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Sir Arthur is shown in the chair which he used when Wright the Sherlock Holmes stories and holding on his knee the notebook in which it was his custom to jot down his ideas for the plots. July 05, 1955.

Pres. of Panama -- Dr. B. Porras

F.H. Hiscock

Portrait of Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), American explorer, photo by Argus, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVI, No 38, September 19, 1909.

Warmoth Gov. H.C. of La.

Station writer Sven Deurell.

BARON DE COUBERTIN (1863 - 1937) French educator and sportsman who revived the Olympic games at a 12-nation conference. President of International Olympic Committee Date: 1912

Edvard Bene (1884 - 1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia

Portrait of Ricardo Viñes Roda (Lerida 1875 - Barcelona 1943), was a Spanish pianist, he triumphed throughout Europe as an interpreter and popularizer of modern French and Spanish music, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Stins Oskar August Tigerhielm.

Portrait of Gustaf Dalén 1869.

EDWARD HAROLD BEGBIE Journalist, notable for writing a book affirming the reality of the 'Angels of Mons' during World War One. Date: 1871 - 1929

Photographic portrait of Henry Augustus Rowland (1848-1901) an American physicist and first President of the American Physical Society. Dated 19th century

Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB, John Rowlands, 1841, 1904, was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Central Africa, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

E.T. Perine.

Faddey Filimonovich Dubonos, member of the II State Duma from the Podolsk province. ca. 1907

Nicanor Bolet

David Bergstrom

M.G. Wardle

Portrait of Mr Grant Nitrate negatives, black-and-white negatives

John K. Tarbox , Mayors, Tarbox, John Kemble, 1838-1887. Lawrence

Prof. B. H. Peterson. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American authors

Johan Gustaf Hedborg.

C.E.H. Hobhouse, seated

Hamilton King, Harris & Ewing

Count Pourtales

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Anonymous

P.J. Dugan

1890s TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY PORTRAIT MAN WEARING THREE PIECE SUIT WING COLLAR AND CRAVAT

01/16/1907. Mr. Paul Revoil, new ambassador of France in Madrid.

A.H. Savage Landor

Arthur Bonar Law (1858-1923) Canadian-born Scottish Unionist statesman. British Prime Minister 1922-1923.

American playwright Richard Walton Tully.

Sir Alfred Milner - High commissioner for South Africa and Governor of Cape Colony, circa 1898

C.E. Olofsson Bureau Manager Railway Board 1/1 1918 - 31/12 1938

Dr. Douglas Hyde

Arthur L. Sifton

R. Tatt McKenzie

Guy De Maupassant.

H.G. Wells

John Masefield

Brailsford 12 PC, May 1929-June 1929, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Dr. Karl Liebknecht, head-and-shoulders portrait, arms crossed, facing left c 1911.

Jules Massenet (1842-1912) at the piano. French composer best remembered for his operas.

Glenn Hammond Curtiss, 1878-1930

VICENTE BARRIO EN LA PORTADA DE LA REVISTA VIDA SOCIALISTA, 5 DE FEBRERO DE 1911. Location: FUNDACION PABLO IGLESIAS. MADRID. SPAIN.

Frederick Hale

Gabriele d'annunzio, 1903

Portrait of the poet, journalist, and novelist Anatole France (1844-1924) by Nadar, Felix (1820-1910)/Private Collection/1870s/Photograph/France/Portrait

March 1914. Mr. Juan Ortueta, Liberal, yesterday elected senator for Madrid.

C.C. Hollenback

Francis Penny. Photograph by Hasted ().

Giacomo Puccini, 1858-192 Italian opratic composer c1908.

Hon. William H. Hunt.. Portraits, Illustrations. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Slavery , United States, African American men, African American diplomats

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1918.

Caleb Saunders , Mayors. Lawrence

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866 - 1946) writer Date: 1914

Rostand

Jean Duffault

Photograph of James Ramsey MacDonald (1866-1937) First Labour Party Prime Minister of Great Britain. Dated 1915

Band Director Henrik Kristian Groth.

Wincenty Hermanowski (born on April 3, 1875, died on November 19, 1947) - Polish local government official, president of Biaystok (1928-1932), pharmacist ca. before 1939.

Robert Henri (1865-1929), the American painter, posed in the photographer's New York City studio about 1900 By Gertrude Käsebier, 1852-1934, photographer ca. 1900

'Comte De Montesquiou', c1893. Artist: Unknown.

Edmund William Gosse (1845-1928) English poet and critic. After a photograph c1905.

Guy de Maurier (1865-1915), British soldier and playwright. Brother of Gerald du Maurier and subsequently uncle of Daphne du Maurier. His play 'An Englishman's Home', first staged in 1909, predicted an enemy invasion of England. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Fusiliers and killed by shell fire near Kemmel in March 1915. Date: 1915

Kuznetsov Vladimir Alexandrovich ca. 1909

Francisco Javier Cisneros (1836-1898), Cuban Railway Engineer and Political Activist, c1910. Artist: Unknown

Francisco Ignacio Madero González345 (October 30, 1873 February 22, 1913) was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913

F W Percival, spiritualist belonging to the circle of William Stainton Moses, spirit medium. Date: 19th century

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. Nobel Prize winners. H.A. Lorentz (1853-1928). {1940-1945}

Photographic portrait of José María Usandizaga (1887-1915) a Spanish Basque composer. Dated 20th Century

Jose Battley Ordonez, Pres't Uruguay

Date: 1910-1915 - Harry A. Wheeler .

Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager. He and his wife Marie Effie Bancroft are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as "drawing-room comedy" or "cup and saucer drama", owing to the realism of their stage sets. Date: 1890

Bishop Willis of Uganda

Adm. D.W. Taylor

Mirza Ali Kuli Khan

Chas. H. Sherrill, H.P Raess

Rt. Hon. John Morley

Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel P.H. Fawcett, the English explorer, c.1925. In May 1925 Fawcett disappeared near the Xingu River in the Brazilian jungle and was never seen again. Date: 1932

United States: 1918 Portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, historian, sociologist, and civil rights activist.

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