Early 20th Century Political Figures

Images capturing notable historical figures in formal attire, engaged in discussions and ceremonies, highlighting early 20th-century political events.

This is the civilian De Groot, attending court charges that ended in his paying £9 for "offensive behavior" - a small sum for success. Two other charges against him were dismissed. November 22, 1950.

Taft at Fergus Falls

Balfour, Lansing

Riano, Elguero

Thomas, Haig, Joffre, Lloyd George

This is the civilian De Groot, attending court charges that ended in his paying £9 for "offensive behavior" - a small sum for success. Two other charges against him were dismissed. November 22, 1950.

Lieut. Chas. Becker

12/31/1930. The new high commissioner Don Luciano Lopez Ferrer (1) and General Cabanellas (2), the General delegate (3) and High Authorities of the protectorate Witnessing the parade of the Troops that Honored the first Upon their arrival in the capital of the protectorate.

04/30/1937. The "Bureau" of the general confederation of Labor, presided over by the Secretary General, Leon Jouhaux, at the head of the Popular demonstration, as it passes through the Place de Voltaire.

Earl Aberdeen & Gen. Wood

12/31/1931. Ministerial Trips: San Fernando de Cádiz. The Minister of the Navy, Mr. Giral, in the department of San Fernando (Cádiz), witnesses the parade of the Forces that Honored him.

Austria - Franz Ferdinand & daughter of Leopold Salvator. Upper right: Cardinal Nagle

07/31/1906. After the Duel. The Uninjured Combatants leave the place where the Pistol fight has taken place. (2) General Negrier. Photo: M. Branger.

Von Hindenburg and staff

04/30/1911. In Issy-Les-Moulineaux. The president of the council M. Monis (1) and the minister of War M. Berteaux (2) witnessed the departure of the Airplanes.

Gen. J. O'Ryan - Blum - Stirez - Genns

Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) was assistant secretary of the navy, under Josephus Daniels (center). On Daniels left is Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII. 1919.

DD-942 Bigelow , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Lord Kitchener with others

07/23/1915. General Silvestre in Madrid. The former general commander of Larache Mr. Manuel Fernández Silvestre (X) when leaving the midday station yesterday morning.

02/19/1911. The extraordinary embassy of Mexico in Madrid. The Lords of Gamboa (X) and other mission personnel Witnessing the parade of the Forces that Honored them at the North Station.

05/25/1911. Thus ended the eventful Paris-Madrid "Raid", in which of eighteen participants only one, Verdrines, managed to reach the goal. The photo Picks up the aviator Moments After stepping on Earth.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Sir Joseph Ward gretting a wounded officer at the New Zealand Hospital, Oaklands Park Walton.

March 1921. Barcelona. Somatenes Magazine. The delegate colonel reviewing the weapons of the Somatenistas de la Salud, with the Corporals of the party.

01/09/1918. At the Gates of the Royal Palace. Commission of the Postal Savings Fund, Chaired by the Duke of Bivona (X), who yesterday presented HM The King with the Postal gold medal, in gratitude for everything he has done for that Institution.

Chicago Delegation in N.Y.

Porte & Halle i.e., Hallett

Kaiser Karl I. in Bolzano, 15.1.1917 In January 1917 Kaiser Karl I traveled to South Tyrol and visited the front there

Anefo photo collection. Diplomacy: English ambassador. Arrival of the English envoy Sir Neville Bland at the Lloydkade in Rotterdam. Sir Neville Bland and wife on the quay their old driver l.p. Lute, who let the ambassador's car held into and remained in the Netherlands. 25 May 1945. Rotterdam, South Holland

Unveiling of monument at entrance Central Park, New York to battleship Maine which exploded in Havana harbour in Spanish-American War, 1898. Mayor Gaynor, Admiral Badger and General Wilson on steps of City Hall, 19 May 1913.

07/31/1918. At the North station, in Santander. The commander of the German submarine "U-56" (X), with the German Colony that came to say goodbye to him upon his departure for Alcalá de Henares, where he has been interned.

Departure of JASON: Mrs. Chas. Saltzman, Mrs. Lawton, Major Lawton, C.O. Laughlin, Mrs. L. Wood, Mrs. W. Draper, G. McAneny, G.R. Adamson, Lt. Com. C.E. Courtney

Spaniards Are Searched for Arms On Admittance To Gibraltar -- A Spaniard being searched for weapons on admission to Gibraltar, under the watchful eve of a British guard.Owing to the civil war in Spain at the present moment, officials in Gibraltar are keeping a close watch on Spaniards who enter on the Island, and search them Rigorously for arms. All along policeman keep a sharp look out for Spaniards trying to enter into Spain. July 23, 1936. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Internment camp, Temple, Alberta -- Duke Connaught

Bet Carney. October 01, 1946.

The Kaiser's proclamation of war against Britain is read out by military authorities, Berlin, Germany, 4 August 1914, (1933). Wilhelm II of Germany declared war against Britain, Britain responded by declaring war on Germany, and the First World War began. From "The Pageant of the Century". Odhams Press Ltd, 1933

First War Day at Central Station. On the first day of the war, the central station was not accessible to the public. Everyone who really had to be had to legitimate himself at a Dutch soldier. Text strip of photo stuck.

Traffic Squad review

Col. E.C. Young, Col. Milton J. Forman, Chicago

Gen. Bell, El Paso

04/09/1912. Garnier after its recent flights in Murcia - photo Mateo.

Wilbur Wright after flight

Boillot & Rigal in Army

Soldiers and civilians, circa 1915, maker unknown.

Lepine and Clemenceau unveiling Danton tablet

Lieut. E.R. Jolibois, Lieut. H. J.R. Mallarme, Lieut. Baron Baron Meslon

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the States General 1945. Dogwills enter the building. November 20, 1945. The Hague, South Holland

Parisian police prefect Louis Lepine instructing law enforcement officers during Labour Day (May Day), France, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3297, May 5, 1906.

06/30/1918. The postal service in the United States. President Wilson (X) Congratulating Airman Lieutenant George L. Boyle, Who Led the First Air Expedition of the Postal Service from Washington to New York.

06/11/1913. New Knights of the Toison. The Awarded with this high distinction when leaving the palace Yesterday, after the Badges of the Most Honorable Decoration were Imposed on them (Luis Pidal y Mon, Marquis of Pidal, Francisco Javier Azlor-Aragon Idiaquez Duke of Granada, Valeriano Weyler Nicolay, Marquis of Tenerife.

Algeciras, January 1906. Moroccan War, arrival in Algeciras and departure from the station of the Minister of State, the Duke of Alhucemas del Rio and other foreign delegates.

Striking messengers

Anefo photo collection. Installation Adelborsten Royal Institute for the Marine. Mohammed Rum, high Commissioner of Indonesia, is present due to the installation of 33 Indonesian nobility breasts. September 12, 1950. Den Helder

Talbot (MD), with Wade (IA) and Col Johnston (TX)

G. O'Hara

Gen. Liggett decorates U.S. aviators

Secretary of the Treasury Mellon laying a wreath on the statue of Alexander Hamilton in behalf of the Sons of the American Revolution

Dr. J.H. Finley & Weston

W. Camp, Mrs. C. Van Rensselaer, Col. F.M. Davis, Lt. R. Breeze, Sgt. Coombs

T.R. entering Guild Hall, Sgt. at Arms with Mack

The Schneider Trophy: Howard Pixton talking to Jacques Schneider after his victory, 1914 (1934). Artist: Flight Photo.

Germany at the Start of the First World War, 1914 A Berlin crowd listens as a German officer reads the Kaiser's order for mobilisation on 1st August 1914. The following day, following the requirements of the Schlieffen Plan, Germany invaded Luxembourg and demanded free passage for its troops through Belgium in order to attack France.

Theodore Roosevelt (2nd left) with Missouri Governor Herbert S. Hadley (2nd Right), Bain New Service, 1912

6th Advanced Training Course Group , Armories, Ordnance industry, Students, Military officers, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Scotti

Kaiser of Germany

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection H.M. King George V talking to M. Paul Cambon at the presentation to the French Red Cross of a motordental surgery on behalf of the Silver Thimble Fund, 4th May Buckingham Palace.

06/30/1916. The Maneuvers of the Portuguese army in Tancos. The President of the Republic (1) Greeting the Spanish Military Attachés. In the Carriage, the Minister of Spain in Lisbon, Mr. López Muñoz (2).

Aerial weather exhibition in Utrecht/ the man with the gas mask, a creepy appearance surrounded by high soldiers, namely, General Major Reynders, Res.-Majoor Gerber, chef of the Air Defense Circle Utrecht-Soesterberg, Major Schimmel, Chief of Air Defense Circle General Staff , Lieutenant General Prins, Commander Air Defense Circle Utrecht-Soesterberg.

Anefo photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina in London during the 2nd World War. undated. Great Britain, London

Melilla. 03/16/1920. The Zeluán aviation squadron. The director of the Squadron, Mr. Fernández Moulero (x), pilots and observers.

Belgian officers

March 1918. The Portuguese Diplomatic representation in Spain. Professor Egas Moniz, new Portuguese minister in Madrid, accompanied by his wife and the Military Attaché, Lieutenant Paes, when leaving the Belem Palace, in Lisbon - Approximate date.

President Loubet of France in an automobile attending military manoeuvres in France 1905. Emile Francois Loubet (1838 - 1929), 45th Prime Minister of France and later President of France.

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Group of soldiers of the 19th Imperial Yeomanry posing for rather odd photograph. They are probably irregulars/local scouts employed by the British Army.

Maj. Gen. Sir H. Thornton & Gen. Critchley

Wm. J. Lee

01/29/1918. Shipwrecked in Madrid. The Captain and Officers of the Steamship "Giralda", leaving his interview yesterday with the president of the council.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Arrives To Discuss Trade -- Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, Foreign Minister of Brazil, who was invited to Washington by President Roosevelt to confer on major problems affecting both countries, transfers to the Coast Guard cutter Manhattan at Quarantine from the Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, aboard which he was a passenger, to hasten his arrival in this country today. he will converse with American officials on financial, economic and other questions. September 2, 1939. (Photo by Wide World Photo).

Maj. Gen. G.W. Read, Gen. Pershing, Brig. Gen. G.S. Simons

Reading Kings's Coronation

Men at unknown flying machine. Possibly at Meister's airport company 1927-1928.

Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.

Gen. Troussaint inspecting Fahnestock Field Hospital, Paris

'Nouveau Ministere en Italie; La crise ministerielle en Italie. M. Bissolati, le leader democrate, apres une visite a M. Boselli, est interviewe par un reporter', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".

Throwing Guns into sea

Launching of Sub-Chaser P-5. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Mr. Churchill's Early Flying Days Historic Pictures -- Britain's Prime Minister (with stick) in front of a short biplane, which resembles generally, the S.38 type and was adapted to carry a Vickers gun. On extreme right (boarded) is Commander Samson, one of the first four naval officers to learn to fly, and whom during the war, commanded a group of air stations on the East Coast. January 1, 1942. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

71st Reg't. Armory entrance

05/31/1911. The Kings of Italy leaving to inaugurate the Spanish pavilion of the Rome exhibition.

Patten & Lieut. Webb

Naval and Army Leaders - Vice Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin, First Member of the Australian Naval Board (left) and Lieutenant-General E. K. Squares, Inspector-General of the Australian Military Forces, leaving the Commonwealth offices today after attending a meeting of the Defense Council. It was the first meeting of the Council since Lieutenant-General Squires arrived here to take up his appointment. September 20, 1938.

Mrs. Crowley Flight, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Allain White. April 9, 1945.

04/30/1926. Madrid. Various News Notes. 3. The Marquis de la Mina (X) with the Awarded Servants this Year.

Tsar Nicholas II meeting Kaiser Wilhelm II on board the latter's yacht, the Hohenzollern in 1912. The Kaiser's brother, Adalbert came be seen on the left. Date: 1912

Mitchel at Straus Memorial

Capt. Kellogg and Adm. Kimball aboard ship

Gen. Sir J. French in Paris

Reviving EASTLAND victim

Jos. Ellis, Sir John Randles, G. Muir Ritchie, and Col. Sir Chas. Allen standing together outside

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