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Timeless black and white portraits of male historical figures, highlighting early 20th-century attire and expressions.

Albert Einstein, in his Berlin Study

Anefo photo collection. Andre Philip (French economist) (cup). August 17, 1965

Portrait of Swedish author August Strindberg / Date: 1880s .

Portrait of Professor Albert Einstein 1925 Max Liebermann (1847-1935 German) Oil on canvas

Louis Lumiere (1864-1948) and Auguste Lumiere (1862-1954) were two French brothers who invented the Cinematographe after hearing of Edison´s invention...

RETRATO DE MARIANO BENLLIURE - 1902. Author: JOSE MORENO CARBONERO (1860-1942).

LUIS SIRET (1860-1934) ARQUEOLOGO E ILUSTRADOR HISPANO-BELGA.

American Writer and Humorist Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, three-quarter length seated portrait wit cigar in hand, A.F. Bradley, 1907

The Belgian Minister In London -- New Portrait of, Baron E. De Carter De Marchienne, the Belgian Minister in London. April 15, 1940.

Gabriel Fauré, 1845 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a painting by Paul Mathey, 1870s Gabriel Fauré, 1845 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a painting by Paul Mathey, 1870s Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660345

Dublin, New Hampshire: September, 1906 A portrait of author Mark Twain in a rocking chair on a porch with his comments on the side.

Portrait of Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Anonymous

Leon Trotsky 1879 ñ 21 August 1940. Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army

01/31/1912. Parliamentary Figures. The liberal and illustrious Africanist senator, D. Tomás maestre.

Gabriel Fauré, 1845 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a painting by Paul Mathey, 1870s Gabriel Fauré, 1845 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a painting by Paul Mathey, 1870s Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21911433

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936). English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

Mitch Miller

Photograph of Alfred Stieglitz. Photographed by Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934). Dated 1902

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON English journalist and writer

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.

Portrait of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Anonymous

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm Willinger, La Bohème, Act II, 1895 Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm Willinger, La Bohème, Act II, 1895 Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660566

AndrÈ LÈon Blum (1872 ñ 1950) was Prime Minister of France. In office as Prime Minister: 16 December 1946 ñ 22 January 1947; 4 June 1936 ñ 22 June 1937; 13 March 1938 ñ 10 April 1938; 28 July 1948 ñ 5 September 1948. Blum was briefly Prime Minister again in March and April 1938, long enough to ship France's heavy artillery and much needed military equipment to the Spanish Republicans. He was imprisoned in Vichy France and Germany during the war.

PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN.

Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910, American writer and humourist. From the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, America, Volume 15, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Lee J. Cobb, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait for the Film, "The Moon is Down", 20th Century-Fox, 1943

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physicist, Head and Shoulders Portrait, photograph by Orren Jack Turner, 1947

Portrait of Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Pierre Petit, 1905, notesheet from Arpège op. 76 no. 2 1897, song with piano accompaniment, text by Albert Samain Portrait of Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Pierre Petit, 1905, notesheet from Arpège op. 76 no. 2 1897, song with piano accompaniment, text by Albert Samain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660324

Albert Einstein with his First Wife Mileva Maric, Head and Shoulders Portrait, 1912

Vladimir Lenin on March 29, 1919 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1919/Photograph/Russia/Portrait,History

ANTONIO CANOVAS DEL CASTILLO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL .MALAGA . RETRATO AL OLEO DE FEDERICO MADRAZO. PALACIO DEL SENADO . MADRID.

Paul Marie Theodore Vincent D Indy 1851-1931, French composer. From a photo., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG Norwegian musician Date: 1843 - 1907

Swedish author August Strindberg. Self-portrait in Gersau, Switzerland circa 1886 self-portrait.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). French writer. Portrait.

12/31/1929. Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) working in his studio.

Vladimir Lenin at his appartment in the Kremlin. Autumn 1920, Anonymous

12/31/1899. Gustav Mahler.

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903). German jurist and historian. Engraving, early 20th century.

Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin (1878-1972) by Anonymous /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903), German historian and philologist, engraving by Ernesto Mancastroppa from a photograph by Brogi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 45, November 8, 1903.

Johan August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, by Edvard Munch 1892. Strindberg was a prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics.

Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), Physicist

Alexandre Dumas the Elder, French novelist and playwright, c1850-1870. Artist: Etienne Carjat.

Josef Stalin by Anonymous /Private Collection/1930s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Prof Max Cosyns. September 19, 1933.

11/30/1923. Last portrait of the famous French entomologist JM Fabre, whose centenary was celebrated in Serignan on the 23rd.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov alias Lenin (22 April 1870 21 January 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist

Portrait of Daniel Filleborn (born 7 November 1841, died 3 June 1904), tenor, opera singer, painting by Stanislaw Lentz (1861-1920), Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

HONORE DE BALZAC French writer whose massive Comedie humaine is a monument of social fiction. Date: 1799 - 1850

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), African Americam abolitionist, writer and statesman, circa 1870s.

Mark Twain (1835-1910). American author and humorist. Portrait. Color drawing.

Vladimir Lenin. November 7, 1919 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1919/Photograph/Russia/History

United States: May, 1938 Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein reading a letter

Mark Twain sitting on terrace in his preferred dress, a white linen suit, ca. 1900-1910. Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was a prominent American author, humorist, and lecturer for four decades (BSLOC_2020_2_50)

Albert Schweitzer French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar (1875 - 1965).

Sir John Herschel April 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India No commercial portrait photographer of the period would have portrayed Herschel as Cameron did here, devoid of classical columns, weighty tomes, scientific attributes, and academic posesthe standard vehicles for conveying the high stature and classical learning that one’s sitter possessed (or pretended to possess). To Cameron, Herschel was more than a renowned scientist; he was “as a Teacher and High Priest,” an “illustrious and revered as well as beloved friend” whom she had known for thirty years. Naturally, her image of him would not be a stiff, formal effigy. Instead, she had him wash and tousle his hair to catch the light, draped him in black, brought her camera close to his face, and photographed him emerging from the darkness like a vision of an Old Testament prophet.. Sir John Herschel 282064

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636425

12/31/1934. The Writer, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, accompanied by his friend Albert Einstein and Dr. Jahuda, in Holland.

Photograph of Mark Twain (1835-1910) an American writer humourist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Dated 19th Century

Vladimir Lenin. July 1920 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1920/Photograph/Russia/Portrait,History

12/31/1928. In the Image, the writer Henry Barbusse.

E. Thompson Seton

Photograph of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. Dated 20th Century

PAUL MUNI in THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR (1935), directed by WILLIAM DIETERLE.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Portrait of the astronomer sir john herschel; J.f.w. HERSCHEL.

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir William Blake Richmond dated 1887

ALBERT EINSTEIN ON THE STEPS OUTSIDE THE 150-FOOT TOWER TELESCOPE.

Robert Todd Lincoln the oldest son of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, was their only child to live to maturity. 1868, Lincoln married Mary Eunice Harlan and had three children, including a boy named Abraham Lincoln II, who died at age 16 in 1890 (BSLOC_2018_6_70)

Portrait of Ignacy Jan Paderewski; 1914-OK. 1920 (1914-00-00-1920-00-00);

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 1894) Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January 1898 - 11 February 1948) was a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).

James Mason, Murder by Decree, 1979

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). He is best known in popular culture for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed 'the world's most famous equation'). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics 'for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect'. The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory. Einstein was visiting the United States when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and, being Jewish, did not go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He settled in the USA, becoming an American citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he endorsed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt alerting him to the potential development of 'extremely powerful bomb

Russian soviet-leader, Josef Stalin 1940

Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, general theory of relativity, Nobel Prize, around 1950, USA, North America

Ernest Borgnine, on-set of the Film, "Deadly Blessing", United Artists, 1981

RETRATO DE GUSTAV MAHLER - 1907. Author: NÄHR MORIZ. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Anefo photo collection. Television: Kees de Jongen, NCRV. Jules Hamel. 1 June 1971

Mr. David Lloyd George 80 -- A fine character study of Mr. David Lloyd George, who celebrated his eightieth birthday today, taken on his farm at Churt in Surrey. January 16, 1943. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia's Central Committee Joseph Stalin on Lenin's Mausoleum Tribune by Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)/Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1935-1937/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Josef Stalin as a young revolutionary in 1900.

E. Thompson Seton.

Prof. Albert Einstein - Famous Scientist - Personality. March 26, 1931. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

Sergio Arboleda (1822-1888) was a Colombian landowner, journalist, military and politician. Ideologist of the Colombian Conservative Party. Portrait. Watercolour painting by Francisco Fonollosa, Spanish illustrator (late 20th century).

LOUIS-JEAN LUMIERE French chemist, industrialist and pioneer (with his brother) of cinematography Date: 1864 - 1948

Professor Auguste Piccard. Professor Piccard, first man to enter the Stratosphere in a balloon, is preparing to explore the ocean depths in a submarine balloon which he calls a bathyscaphe, to a depth of two-and-a-half miles in October.Exclusive rights to Professor Piccard's account of his adventure have been secured by "The Sun."In this, the first of the series, he tells how he and his colleague, Professor Max Cosyns, of Brussels University, are preparing for the perilous descent. September 23, 1947. (Photo by Planet News).

Sir John Herschel Made 1867 England. For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.. Carbon print . Julia Margaret Cameron

Gilberto govi

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1874-1929, Austrian novelist and poet, digital edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm Willinger and the composing Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss

Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, 1808 - 1888, known as Max in Bayern, member of a junior branch of the royal House of Wittelsbach

Norway: c. 1900 A portrait of Norwegian explorer, diplomat, scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 ñ 21 January 1924). Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. served as head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death.

Lluís Cutchet Font (1815-1892), periodista y polígrafo. Grabado de 1892.

Portrait of Maxim Gorky

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), speaking in Washington, D.C. ca. 1940.

12/31/1947. Portrait of the First Israeli Minister, David ben Gurion.

Azcarate Menendez, Gumersindo (1840-1917). Political and spanish sociologist.

MARX, Karl (1818-1883). German philosopher, politician, economist and revolutionary. Portrait of Karl Marx. Engraving. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. Civica Raccolta delle Stampe 'Achille Bertarelli' (Achille Bertarelli collection of prints).

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