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Early 20th Century Politicians

Images featuring influential politicians from the late 19th to early 20th century, presented in formal attire with serious expressions, capturing a historical context.

A photographic print of Henry George taken during his campaign in 1886. The image dates from the 19th century, approximately between 1800 and 1899. The print measures 16.8 x 12 cm

Jose Echegaray y Eitzaguirre, born in 1832, died 1916. Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman and playwright. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. From La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana from 1881, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

05/31/1916. New Academic. The distinguished violinist Mr. Antonio Fernández Bordas, who yesterday read his entrance speech at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

J.B. Metzger. Photograph by Lothrop.

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, (1839-1881), Russian composer

Wilhelm Klemperer, father of the Romanist Victor Klemperer

Portrait of Gleb Uspensky (1843-1902) by Anonymous /Private Collection/c. 1910/Photochrom/Portrait

Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910) Swiss author and philanthropist, founder of the Red Cross between 1935 and 1945.

Portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) by Sescau, Paul /Private Collection/c. 1894/Photoengraving/France/Portrait

12/31/1929. Image of Fernando de los Ríos Urruti, new rector of the University of Madrid. Photo: Alfonso.

*JORGE V - REY INGLES - DUQUE DE YORK - 1865/1936. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. YORK DUQUE DE. JORGE V DE INGLATERRA.

Vasily Gerasimovich Gubanov ca. 1907.

Luis Matos de Potestad (b. 1828). Marquis of Heredia and Spinola. Politician. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1877.

Croatian politician Ante Starčević Date 19th century

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834 - 1907) Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements.

Portrait of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor. Part of a French amateur album with photos of France, Algeria, Palmyra, the 1900 World Exhibition and of Famous Fransen.

King of Rumania

Prof. Irving Fisher

Anton CHEKHOV, 1860-1904, Russian author and playwright, photograph with inscription, Moscow, 1894

Joseph Victor Amedee Capoul (February 27) (1839) (February 18) (1924) was a French lyric operatic tenor with a graceful vocal style, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Joseph Victor Amedee Capoul (February 27) (1839) (February 18) (1924) was a French lyric operatic tenor with a graceful vocal style, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Portrait of Bedrich SMETANA, 1824-84 Czech composer

Adolf Dygasiski (1839 1902), (Grodzisk Mazowiecki) Polish novelist, publicist and educator. In Polish literature, he was one of the leading representatives of Naturalism.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (1885 - 1925) Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. He is best known for defeating Baron Peter von Wrangel in Crimea.

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, Journalist and Philosopher. Dated 19th Century

(Ferdinand) August Bebel (1840-1913) German Socialist.

Pyotr Petrovich Tolstoy ca. 1906.

PERE D`ALCANTARA PENYA NICOLAU, SIGLO XIX, COLECCIÓN PRIVADA.

Joaquin Gomez. Photograph.

Portrait of Gunnar Berndtson, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 158 mm, width 96 mm, maker, manufacturer, 1873 - 1883, paper, collotype, photoprint

Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogdanov ca. 1907.

Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general manager, Met Op. Co.

Adolf Gottstein. Photograph.

CHEJOV, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904). Russian writer.

Karl Gotthard Lamprecht (25 February 1856) (10 May 1915) was a German historian, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Emile zola, caricature, 1876

Jose Balari Jovany (1844-1904). Spanish hellenistic and philologist. Engraving of The Catalan Illustration, 1904. Colored.

King George V of Great Britain (1865-1936), 1912. George V was king of Great Britain from 1910 to 1936. In 1924 he appointed Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, and in 1932 he introduced the idea of broadcasting a Christmas message to the people. He died of influenza on 20 January 1936 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward. From "Imperial Cricket", edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd (London, 1912). (Colorised black and white print).

HENRY ARTHUR JONES (1851 - 1929), English playwright Date: 1893

Thomas Robert Tommy Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar, 1864 - 1930. Scottish whisky distiller. From The Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser, published 1907.

Piet Joubert (Petrus Jacobus - 1834-1900) South African soldier and statesman. Commanded Boer troops in 1st and 2nd Boer Wars.

''Mr. J.R.Whitley, Founder and Organiser of the Exhibitions at Earls Court', 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891.

NUÑEZ DE ARCE , GASPAR. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL . VALLADOLID 1834 - 1903. OLEO DE JOSE SANCHEZ PESCADOR . TEATRO ESPAÑOL . MADRID.

Portret Stanisława Wyspiańskiego, z czasów gdy mieszkał w Rynku. Kuczyński, Józef Antoni (1877-1952), photographer

Georg Moritz Ebers, 1837 - 1898, German Egyptologist and novelist / Georg Moritz Ebers, deutscher Ägyptologe und Schriftstelle, historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt, koloriert, handcoloriert, Koloration,.

Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works contain a strong emphasis on Christianity, and its message of absolute love, forgiveness and charity, explored within the realm of the individual, confronted with all of life's hardships and beauty. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His output consists of eleven novels, three novellas, seventeen short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. His novella Notes From Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.

A 1899 silver gelatin cabinet photograph of writer Alphonse Daudet, showing his portrait with facial expression and attire.

Claude Debussy 1862-1918 - French composer

Photographic portrait of Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919) an American astronomer and physicist. Dated 20th century

Imhof, Heinrich.

Juan Maná Rodriguez. Photograph by Cruces y Cia.

Pyotr Stolypin, Russian Empire's Prime Minister (1906 - 1911). ca. circa 1908.

Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1846-1916, Polish writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature 1905, Illustration from the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Frederick August Bartholdi, architect of the Statue of Liberty

Teodoro Llorente Olivares (1836-1911). Spanish writer. Colored engraving by P. Ross. La Ilustration Catalana, 1893. Colored.

Louis Alexandre Antoine Mizon, 1853 to 1899, French explorer and colonial administrator from Africa, dets Opdagelse, Erobring og Kolonisation, published in Copenhagen, 1901, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

BOULANGER, Georges (1837-1891). French general and politician. War Department in 1886. Engraving.

Dr, Carl Schmidt, Court opera singer, portrait from Die Bomb side dish, Carl Angerer -, realization

ORSON WELLES in MISTER ARKADIN (1955) -Original title: MR. ARKADIN-, directed by ORSON WELLES.

Portrait of Paul Verlaine, attributed to Willem Witsen, 1892.

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864 - 1901, French Post-Impressionist artist. Portrait taken around 1890 by an unknown photographer.

JAMES KEIR HARDIE British labour leader and politician. Date: 1856 - 1915

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, portrait ca. 1900, historical, history of science, Nobel Prize for Physics 1901, scientists who worked in Wuerzburg, information board, Wuerzburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Portrait from a campaign banner for the 1872 Republican presidential campaign when President Grant was running for a second term (BSLOC_2018_10_80)

12/31/1919. Jose Cruz Conde.

Anton Chekhov, 1901

Count Serge Witte, Russian envoy to the Portsmouth Peace Conference, August 1905. After his nation's defeat in the Russo-Japanese war he negotiated favorable terms for Russia. He return to turmoil of the Revolution of 1905 and assisted the Czar in reinstalling much of his authoritarian power in 1906 (BSLOC_2017_6_40)

Portrait of General Justo Rufino Barrios (1835-1885), President of Guatemala. Guatemala, 19th century.

Ramón Herrera y Gutiérrez (1850 - 1896) III Count de la Mortera, Spanish businessman and politician, head of the Reformist Party of Cuba. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

12/31/1964. Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, by RH De Caviedes, Ateneo de Madrid collection.

Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (1853-1939), Anonymous

Portrait of A.W. Lundberg, dead in 1907.

Menacho y Peirón, Manuel (Castro Urdiales, Santander, 1860-). Doctor oftalmólogo.

Leo Tolstoy. Yasnaya Polyana, 1862 (Self-Portrait) by Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich (1828_1910)/State Museum of Leo Tolstoy, Moscow/1862/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Theodor Herzl ( May 2, 1860 - July 3, 1904), born Benjamin Zeev Herzl, also known as in Hebrew as Hozeh HaMedinah, or 'Visionary of the State' was an Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel. He was born and died in Austria; in 1949 his remains were moved from Vienna to be reburied on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

''L'Allemagne Revolutionnaire; Le chancelier socialiste allemand Friedrich Ebert porte au pouvoir par la revolution', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

WILLIAM EDWARD AYRTON Scientist, electrical engineer : photograph of 1893 Date: 1847 - 1908

Elsevier photo collection. J. de Jong Saakes, mayor Harderwijk. 1928. Harderwijk

Heinrich Friedrich Reinhard Kekule von Stradonitz (6 March 1839) (22 March 1911) was a German classical archaeologist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888 - 15 March 1938) Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and prolific author on revolutionary theory.

Portrait of Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) a novelist and historian. Dated 19th Century

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish playwright and critic in July 1891, wearing a distinctive hat Date: 1856-1950

Johann Baptist Strauss II, 1825 - 1899, Austrian composer and violinist, 1879, digitally edited

Vladimir Lenin Portrait. April 23, 1920. Moscow.

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 ñ 1881) Russian composer

Portrait of the author Alexander I. Kuprin (1870-1938) by Bulla, Karl Karlovich (1853-1929)/The State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow/1913/Silver Gelatin Photography/Russia/Portrait

France, Michelet, Le colonel Laussedat, Portrait of Aimé Laussedat, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 109 mm, width 74 mm, photographer, 1882 - 1892, paper, autotype, maker, manufacturer

Claude DEBUSSY, 1862-1918 French composer, c. 1893 photograph

Aurelio Mario Garcia Menocal (1866-1941), president of Cuba from 1913 to 1921

Alexander Alexandrovich Stakhovich, member of the II State Duma from the Oryol province ca. 1907

Lars Spre.

Amadeo I of Savoy (1845-1890). King of Spain. Portrait by Francisco Sans y Cabot (1828-1881), 1871. History Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Photograph of William Ramsay (1852-1916) a British chemist who discovered the Nobel Gasses and Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry. Dated 19th century

Photograph of Friedrich Tietjen (1834-1895) a German astronomer and director of Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. Dated 19th Century

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK German musician Date: 1854 - 1921

SILVELA , FRANCISCO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1845 - 1905. OLEO DE JOSE PARADA. ATENEO DE MADRID. Author: JOSE PARADA Y SANTIN.

José Maria Vallés Ribot (1849-1911), político republicano, diputado por Barcelona. Grabado de 1905.

J. Klijnens. Photograph.

JORGE V DEL REINO UNIDO (1865-1936) - REY DEL REINO UNIDO Y EMPERADOR DE LA INDIA. JORGE V INGLATERRA. JORGE V DE INGLATERRA.

USA: James A Garfield (1831-1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. Oil on canvas, 1881

Mila i Fontanals, Manuel (1818-1884). Spanish scholar and writer.

Photographic portrait of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), the French composer, date unknown. Date: 1800

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