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Early 20th Century Portraits

Black and white portraits of prominent historical figures, dressed formally, capturing the essence of early 20th century professional photography.

Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (1871-1939), who served as the President of Cuba.

Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st Baronet, 1853 to 1917, also known as Doctor Jim, The Doctor or Lanner. British colonial politician and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War, Volume 1 by Louis Creswicke, published in 1900, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

MARCEL PROUST aged about 31 Date: 1871 - 1922

General Foch on March 26, 1917, at Doullens, Somme department, Hauts de France, France, Europe

Andrés Saliquet Zumeta, Marquis of Saliquet (1877 - 1959) Spanish general who participated in the failed coup against the Second Republic, which led to the Spanish War Civil.

Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French explorer, 1910. Artist: Unknown

Photographic portrait of Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) a Jewish poet. Dated 19th Century

Grand Duke Romanov, Kirill Vladimirovich ca. 1890

Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.

PAUL LUKAS.

Photograph of Sir William Osler (1849-1919) a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dated 1918

HOLBROOK JACKSON writer and critic Date: 1874 - 1948

Spanish civil war: Antonio Goicoechea (1876, Barcelona - 1953) was an Alfonsine monarchist in Spain during the period of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. He led the Renovación Española political party.2 Prior to the Civil War, Goicoechea in 1934 had negotiated alongside Carlist monarchists with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on a military agreement that would guarantee Italian support of their movements should a civil war erupt in Spain.

Photograph of Ernest Hemmingway (1899-1961) an American novelist, short story writer, journalist and Nobel Prize-winner in Literature. Dated 20th century

Franz von Papen 1879 ñ 1969. German nobleman, General Staff officer and politician. He served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933ñ1934.

Mikhail Kalinin (1875-1946), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet functionary. Photo by P. Otsup.

12/31/1909. Portrait of Ruben Darío.

Salvaro Obregon Salido (1880-1928) Mexican general and politician, President of Mexico 1920-1924. Obregon won the 1928 Presidential election but was shot dead on 17 July 1928 by Jose de Leon Toral, a Roman Catholic who opposed to the Mexican governments religious policies.

Paul Dukas (Composer). August 08, 1947.

DELGADO, SINESIO ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL.TAMARA (ZAMORA). 1859-1928.

Ramón Serrano Suñer (1901 2003), Spanish politician during the first stages of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, the Spanish State, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the Spanish Falange caucus (1936), and then Interior Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister

Geo. Otis Smith

Yamanashi Hanzō (6 April 1864 - 2 July 1944) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Army Minister and Governor-General of Korea from 1927 to 1929

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 - 1924), better known as Lenin. Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.

Berl Locker (27 April 1887 - 1 February 1972) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician

Anefo photo collection. Reproduktie Royal Film Amstelveen. April 5, 1954. Amstelveen, Noord-Holland

12/31/1919. Portrait of Lenin.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.

Photograph of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869 - 1944) a British architect. Often referred to as 'the greatest British architect'. Some of his famous structures include the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and the India Gate. Dated 1940

Josep Lleonart Nart (1861-1951), poeta escritor y literato catalán. Año 1939.

Alexander I (1888-1934) King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1921-1929), King of Yugoslavia (1929-1934). Assassinated at Marseilles on state visit to France, 9 October 1934. Inset is Peter II (1923-1970), his son and King of Yugoslavia (1934-1945).

Portrait of Francisco Franco

MANUEL DOMINGUEZ -1868/1935 - PERIODISTA HISTORIADOR Y ENSAYISTA PARAGUAYO. MANUEL DOMINGUEZ (1868-1935).

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660442

Alexander I 888 ñ 9 October 1934) served as a prince regent of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1914 and later became King of Yugoslavia from 1921 to 1934

EL CAPITAN EDUARDO BARRON. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

12/31/1918. Mr. Luis Redonet y López Doriga, who yesterday read his entrance speech at the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

Portrait of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928). Author: ANONIMO SIGLO XX. Location: ATENEO-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Abelardo de Carlos (1822-1884). Spanish businessman and writer. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1884. Colored.

George W. Norris, Neb. ca. between 1918 and 1921.

1950 (CA.). Portrait of the writer Rafael Cansinos Assens.

Portrait of General Fransico Franco. Dictator leader of Spain from 1936 - 1975. Barcelona. Spain 2013

Sergey (Sergei, Sergei) Lazo (1894 -1920), Communist leader in the October 1917 Revolution in the Russian Far East.

Joseph Stalin. 1943 by Anonymous /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1943/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Andre Calmettes , 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Vladimir Lenin. April 23, 1920, Anonymous

Josif stalin

Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (1873-1945), Anonymous

Stanislav Josef Matyás Prowázek. Photograph.

03/31/1914. New Undersecretary. Mr. Carlos Cañal who has been appointed undersecretary of grace and justice.

Photograph of Dr. Carl Diem (1882 - 1962) was a German sports administrator, Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games. He was also the man who created the tradition of the Olympic torch relay. 20th century.

A photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 - 1924), Russian statesman and Communist leader, circa 1920.

Photographic portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President. Dated 20th century

Essad Touad Bey

Mr. G.W. Brown. MHR. June 24, 1955.

04/18/1963. Fernando Vela.

12/31/1929. Joaquín Beunza.

Vladimir Lenin on vacation in Gorki.

General Berenguer, whose arrest, in 1924, motivated Sainz Rodríguez's first interview with the King. -.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) Turkish army officer and revolutionary. Founder and first President of the Turkish Republic 1923-1938. Served in the Ottoman until his resignation in July 1919. Ttatesman

06/30/1916. Captain of Engineers Mr. José Loira. Died in Tetouan as a result of a plane accident.

Photograph of Max Wagner on silver gelatin paper from the 1950s, showing portrait composition, facial features, and photographic print qualities.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physicist, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Harris & Ewing, 1921

Gabrielle DAnnunzio, 1863-1938, Italian poet, novelist and playwright. From the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories volume 2 Italian, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Henry Canova Vollam Morton FRSL (known as H. V. Morton), (26 July 1892 - 18 June 1979) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire, England. He was best known for his many books on London, Great Britain and the Holy Land. He first achieved fame in 1923 when, while working for the Daily Express, he covered the opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter

Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, (1886 - 18 February 1937), Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician.

12/31/1919. The opera musician, Giacomo Puccini, in a posture of reflection.

Portrait of August Strindberg, 1908. Nordic

GURIDI, Jesœs (1886-1961). Spanish composer.

James Ramsay MacDonald, (left)1866 - 9 November 1937) British statesman who was the first ever Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a Labour Government in 1924, a Labour Government from 1929 to 1931, and a National Government from 1931 to 1935. To the right of Macdonald is arthur Henderson.

Chairman of the Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov in his Work Cabinet, Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)

Photographic portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and President of Turkey. Dated 20th Century

Photograph of Hans Michael Frank (1900-1946) German lawyer who worked for the Nazi Party. He later became Hitler's personal lawyer. Dated 1920

Yosuke Matsuoka (1880 - 1946) Japanese diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in 1933, ending Japan's participation in the organization. He was also one of the architects of the Tripartite Pact and the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of war.

Portrait of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Rodchenko, Alexander Mikhailovich (1891-1956)

Artur da Costa e Silva was a Brazilian Army General, the second President of Brazil during the military regime set up by the 1964 coup d'état. He was married to Iolanda Barbosa Costa e Silva, the daughter of a soldier. His government started the most oppressive stage of the military regime against communists, which would be continued and expanded under his successor, General Emílio Garrastazu Médici.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 -1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 -1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph

12/31/1925. Portrait of Francisco Franco.

Edward St Barbe Sladen. Photograph, 1911.

SVEN ANDERS HEDIN Swedish explorer Date: 1865 - 1952

WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM English novelist and short story writer, in 1936 Date: 1874-1865

1935. Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party and French author and Nobel laureate Romain Rolland

Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-1928). Spanish writer. Honoris Causa by the University of Washington.

Anefo photo collection. Reproduktie Royal Film Amstelveen. April 5, 1954. Amstelveen, Noord-Holland

Portrait of Ippolito Irigoyen, Argentinian President in 1916-1922 and 1928-1930, painting by Bertole. Argentina, 20th century.

If War Should Come: These Men Will Lead US. -- The Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden, P.C., M.C., J.P., D.C.L., who was recently appointed second in command of a territorial battalion.Mr. Eden has been conservative M.P. for Warwick and Leamington since 1923, and Trustee of the National Gallery since 1935.He was educated at Eton and Christchurch, Oxford, and from 1935-1938, was secretary of state for Foreign affairs.Mr. Eden is to be seen a great deal at the Foreign office, during the Crisis. July 13, 1955.

Palestine: Hussein al-Husayni (-1918), Palestinian mayor of Jerusalem (r.1909-1917) during the last years of Ottoman rule, c. 1910s. Hussein was born into the influential Jerusalemite Arab al-Husayni family, his father having previously served as mayor. Under his leadership, Jerusalem went through high development, with new roads paved, cleaner streets and the construction of a sewage network, partly financed by Jewish communites outside Palestine. He helped foster Muslim, Jewish and Christian cooperation. He died in January 1918, a couple of weeks after surrendering Jerusalem to the Allies.

Sergei Mironovich Kirov (1886 - 1934) Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination was used as a pretext to launch the first Great Purge. Kirov was a participant in the 1905 Russian Revolution and arrested, joining with the Bolsheviks soon after being released from prison. Kirov became commander of the Bolshevik military administration in Astrakhan, and fought for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War until 1920. In 1921, Kirov became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, the Bolshevik party organisation in Azerbaijan.

Dr. Saleeby, London, England ca. between 1918 and 1921.

Image of Irwin S. Chanin from a page in the souvenir program for Chanin's Royale Theatre for its dedication. Portraits. 1927-01-11. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Chanin, Irwin S. (Irwin Salmon), 1891-1988

Vincas Mickevicius (Mickiewicz), known under his pen name Kapsukas (1880 - 1935), Lithuanian communist political activist, publicist and revolutionary. As an active member of the Lithuanian National Revival, he wrote for and edited many Lithuanian publications and joined the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. As his views turned from socialism to communism, he became one of the founders and leaders of the Lithuanian Communist Party and headed the short-lived Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

Gabriel Fauré, 1845 - 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Eugène Pirou, 1905

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf, 1860 - 1903. Austrian composer. From Hugo Wolf, 1860 -1903 Sein Leben in Bildern (His Life in Pictures) published 1937.

EINSTEIN, ALBERT FISICO ALEMAN. 1879-1955.

Albert Einstein, German-Swiss-American mathematician and physicist. Artist: Unknown.

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892 1975) Spanish general, dictator and the Caudillo of Spain from 1939 until his death.

Francisco Franco Bahamonde; Spanish general and dictator who ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975

Faisal I of Iraq

ROBERT ESNAULT PELTIERE 1881- 1957 PRECURSOR DE LA ASTRONAUTICA.

Antonio Casal (1910-1974), actor español. Imagen promocional de Cifesa.

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