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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

Photograph of Antanas Smetona (1874 ñ January 9, 1944) Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II. He served as the first President of Lithuania from April 4, 1919 to June 19, 1920. He again served as the last President of the country from December 19, 1926 to June 15, 1940, before its occupation by the Soviet Union. Dated 1920

Photograph of Jean Richepin (1849-1926), a French poet, novelist and dramatist, the son of an army doctor, was born at Médéa, French Algeria. Dated 19th Century

Jean Alban Bergonié. Photograph.

Joseph Maria Baernreither (12 April 1845 - 19 September 1925) was an Austrian politician, member of the House of Representatives and the House of Lords of the Vienna Imperial Council, Minister of Trade (1898 and 1907), and from 1916 to 1917 Minister without portfolio in the Clam-Martinic Cabinet, painting by Franz Seraph von Lenbach, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a model from that time .

Enrique Fernandez Arbos (1863-1939). Spanish violinist, composer and conductor. Portrait. Watercolor.

12/31/1920. Doctor Carazo, whom HM the King has awarded the cross of charity for his selfless, courageous and charitable services rendered during the flu epidemic to the towns of Miraflores, Chozas, Guadalix, Canencia and Manzanares -.

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.

Photograph of Bedich Smetana (1824-1884) a Czech composer. Dated 19th Century

MARIE-FRANCOIS-SADI CARNOT French politician and President Date: 1837 - 1894

Portrait of Cipriano Castro Ruiz (1858-1924), Venezuelan politician, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3283, January 27, 1906.

Great American Journalist Joseph Pulitzer, above, the late publisher of the New York World and the St, Louis Post-Dispatch, whose 100th birthday anniversary will be observed on April 10. Mr. Pulitzer, who died in 1911, was one of America's outstanding Journalists. He left $2,500,000 for the foundating of the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University and the annual Pulitzer prizes for outstanding work in Journalism and letters. March 31, 1947. (Photo by Wide World).

SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER Scottish Anthropologist Author of 'The Golden Bough'

G. Charpentier

Author Anton Chekhov (1860_1904) by Pavlov, Pyotr Petrovich (1860-1925)/Institut of Russian Literature IRLI (Pushkin-House)/1899/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Sigmund Freud by Isy Ochoa, 2007, born.1961

Portrait of Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) a British journalist, businessman, and essayist. Dated 19th Century

Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky (1846 - 1914) was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and write.

Station inspector Herman Henning Anton Tönnes Graveleij.

FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE German philosopher and poet

Georges (Alexandre Cesar Leopold) Bizet (1838-1875) French composer. After a photograph.

George Robert Tapp, spiritualist, member of the Dalston Association of Enquirers into Spiritualism. He attended meetings during which the medium Florence Cook 'materialised' the spirit of Katie King. Date: 19th century

Konstantin Fedorovich von Schulz ca. 1900.

Vladimir Lenin. Petersburg, February 1897 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1897/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Isaac (Manuel Francisco) Albeniz (1860-1909) Spanish composer.

Gustave Jacquet / 'Portrait of Camille Saint-Saens', 1870, Oil on canvas.

12/31/1894. Portrait of Joaquín Costa.

PAUL EHRLICH German Bacteriologist. Date: 1854 - 1915

SAINT-SAENS, Camille (París,1835-Argel,1921). Compositor, pianista y escritor francés. Fundador junto a Fauré, Franck y Lalo de la "Societé Nationale de Musique" (1871). Tuvo discípulos tan famosos como Fauré Ravel y Poulenc. Sus obras más destacadas son los cuatro poemas sinfónicos: "La rueca de Onfalia" (1871), "Faetón" (1873), "Danza Macabra" (1874) y "La juventud de Hércules".

QUEROL , AGUSTIN. ESCULTOR ESPAÑOL. TORTOSA 1860 - 1909. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

FRANCISCO MADERO. POLITICO MEXICANO.1873-1913.

Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt (1 January 1850) (25 March 1938) was a German architect and art historian, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Konstantin Matveyevich Petrov, deputy of the 3rd State Duma ca. 1907

Portrait of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) by Anonymous /Private Collection/1900/Photograph/Germany/Portrait

Director Carl Löfman.

Czech Republic, Portrait of Czech composer, Bedrich Smetana

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942), Drtikol, Frantisek (1883-1961)

FERRARI , EMILIO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL , VALLADOLID 1853 - 1907.

Portrait of Charles-François Gounod (1818-1893) a French composer, known for his Ave Maria, based on a work by Bach, as well as his opera Faust. Dated 19th Century

Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (1841 - 1911) was a leading Russian Imperial historian of the late imperial period. Also, he addressed the Russian economy in his writings.

Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen, Norwegian explorer. Artist: Unknown.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (22 January O.S. 10 January 1869 29 December O.S. 16 December 1916)Russian Orthodox Christian and mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their only son Alexei.

PABLO VERLAINE (1844-1896) POETA FRANCES PERTENECIENTE AL MOVIMIENTO SIMBOLISTA. Author: PIER EUGENE VIBERT (1875-1937). Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France. PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896).

12/31/1909. Master Fernandez Arbós.

Nikolai Artemyevich Temny (real name Lazarev); self-taught prose writer ca. 1900.

George du Maurier, Sir John Everett Millais (Southampton, England, 1829 - 1896) 1882

HERNANDEZ - PACHECO Y ESTEVAN, EDUARDO. GEOLOGO ESPAÑOL. ALCUESCAR 1872-1965. REPRODUCCION DE FOTO. FOTO ALONSO.

Portrait of the Triestine writer Silvio Benco.

Gen. Benjamin Helm Bristow. oil on canvas. Date: 1874. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Viktor Obninsky (1867-1916) political essayist of Polish descent who became a well-known figure in Russian public and political life, at the beginning of the 1900s. founder of one of the first labour movements in the Russian Empire. The founder of the Russian North Workers movement. A revolutionary.

MONTAGU COLLET NORMAN Governor of the Bank of England. Date: 1871 - 1950

John Calvin (1509-1564). French theologian and reformer. Protestant reformer. Portrait. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume VIII. Published in Barcelona, 1886.

Historical print, portrait of Johann Bernhard Gustav Droysen, 1808 - 1884, German historian, from the Illustrated History of German National Literature, by Gustav Koennecke, 1887

Vladimir Lenin Portrait. March 29, 1919. Moscow. Photographer - Leonidov L.Ya.

Lev Borisovich Kamenev, born Rozenfeld, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He served briefly as the first head of state of Soviet Russia in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, Kamenev fell out of favour and, following a show trial, was executed. Kamenev was the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky.

Lev Osipovich (Ariy Iosifovich) Kotelyansky; prose writer and publicist. ca. circa 1870

Hans Guido von Bulow (1830-1894). German composer, pianist and conductor. Portrait. Photography.

Ireland: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright, essayist, socialist and man of letters, 1905

Wolfgang Karl Golther (25 May 1863) (14 December 1945) was a German Germanist and literary historian, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Sir PATRICK GEDDES Scottish biologist and sociologist; active in city planning Date: 1854 - 1932

Sigmund Freud, Anonymous

Senator H. R. Revels , Legislators, Revels, Hiram R. Hiram Rhoades, 1827-1901. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Vladimir Lenin. Petrograd, January 1918 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1918/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Pau Casals (1876-1973), violoncelista y compositor español en su juventud.

Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907) writer, at age 19 Date: 1878

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, (1853-1931), writer, pictured here in 1892.

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK German musician Date: 1854 - 1921

Portrait of Anton Chekhov

Alphonse Bertillon. Photograph, 1913.

Julius Martov or L. Martov, real name Yuli Osipovich Zederbaum (November 24, 1873 - April 4, 1923) was born in Istanbul in 1873. The son of Jewish middle class parents, he became the leader of the Mensheviks in early twentieth century Russia.

'Wilhelm von Röntgen 1845-1923', 1934. Artist: Unknown.

ANTONIO MACHADO Y RUIZ (1875-1939). Author: FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ DIAZ (1932-2012).

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