Historic Male Leaders

Monochrome portraits of notable male leaders and figures from the mid-20th century, highlighting their serious expressions and formal attire.

Thomas Stewart GordonChairman & Managing Director Birt & Company Ltd. Sydney, NSW. January 12, 1943.

Poll photo collection. Ambassador Štefan Osuský and his family. Portrait of Štefan osuský diplomat. 1939. France, Paris

Speaker Sam Rayburn - U.S.A. July 18, 1946.

M. Byrne. October 12, 1948.

Anefo photo collection. Queen Beatrix receives the little parties' group chairmen because of the cabinet formation. Fraction chairmen of Rossum (SGP). September 10, 1982. The Hague, South Holland

12/31/1929. Francesc Cambo.

Edward G. Dunn.

FRANCISCO CAMBO I BATLLE 1876/1947- ECONOMISTA CATALAN.

Dr Hugo Eckener, manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, c1917-1933 (1933). Artist: Unknown

1930s PORTRAIT OF WHITE HAIRED SENIOR BUSINESS MAN WITH VERY AGED WRINKLED FACE SMILING LOOKING AT CAMERA

12/31/1929. A portrait of Muñoz Seca in the 1930s.

Acting Secretary Of The Navy -- Washington, D.C. - Pictured in the Capitol when he appeared before a congressional Committee is Under-Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. He becomes acting-Secretary of the Navy because of the death of Hon. Frank Knox. April 28, 1944. (Photo by ACME).

Henry Salem Hubbell (1870-1949), US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,1935

E.W. Martin

Wadysaw Sokoowski (born May 5, 1892, died 1963) - doctor of laws, Polish official and diplomat, deputy director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1938.

Zagor. May 29, 1953.

President Warren Harding, ca. 1921-23. He was President for less than two and half years when he died during a tour of Alaska and the Western states on August 2, 1923. Studio portrait with digital color (BSIC_2016_9_11). 7 Continents History/Everett Collection

For Your FilesOut latest picture, just taken, of Air Marshal Sir John Boothman, Air Officer commanding, coastal command, R.A.F. He first gained fame in 1931 when he flew for Britain in the Schneider trophy races. September 23, 1954.

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Visits Mr. Attlee - Mr. Louis St. Laurent, leaving the Dorchester Hotel in London, to meet Mr. Attlee to-day (Fri).Mr. St. Laurent, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, who is in London to attend the Commonwealth Premiers' Conference, in the absence of Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Premier, to-day (Friday) visited Mr. Attlee. October 15, 1948. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Dr. Donald Soper - London Methodist Minister. September 16, 1951.

Photographic portrait of Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (1895-1948) a Swedish diplomat and nobleman who negotiated the release of over 30,000 German concentration camp prisoners. Dated 20th Century

Maurice Ravel 1930 Ludwig Nauer

English writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), sketched during a visit to Naples. Date: March 1928

Vittorio DeSica, Publicity Portrait for the Italian Film, "The Gold of Naples", Italian: L'oro di Napoli, Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Paramount Pictures, Distributors Corporation of America, 1954

Sir Arnold Ashley Miles. Photograph by Harrods.

The new president Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) at his desk, United States of America, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 45, November 10, 1912.

Erno Gero, Minister of Traffic was born at Terbegecz in 1898. He particpated in the Revolution on 1919 and continued his work also after the fall of the Proletardicatate in the underground organisation of the Communist Party. He spent long years in different prisons. He fought during the whole Spanisch Civil. War at the side of the Soviet Union. In 1944 he returned of Hungary. At Szeged and the already liberated territories of Hungary the Hungarian Communist Party was organised under his leadership. July 22, 1947.

Rear Adm. H. G. Rickover, USN (uncovered). Country: Unknown

Sir Gullett. MP. August 1, 1930.

Earl Carroll

E. Caruso

British Personalities: Sir Edward Appleton -- Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh, since 1949. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1947. November 30, 1955. (Photo by Camera Press).

Formal portrait of a businessman (OV2019_199)

12/31/1935. Portrait of Diego Martínez barrio.

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States William Newenham Orpen (1878-1931British)

El dramaturgo y escenógrafo Adrià Gual i Queralt.

1969 Brooke Bond collectors tea card, depicting: Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (1900 1979), Lord Mountbatten was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II. During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (194346). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947)

Black and white photograph of Robert Shuman (1886-1963), President of the Council of Ministers. The caption reads "The worries of President Shuman".

'Georgi Mikhaylov Dimitrov, also known as Georgi Dimitrov Michaylov (1882-1949) Bulgarian Communist leader: Secretary General of the Communist International.'

12/31/1919. The surveillance agent D. Ricardo San German Murdered in Barcelona portrait taken six days before.

AMUNDSEN, ROALD. EXPLORADOR NORUEGO . 1872 - 1928. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American Inventor, half-length Portrait, Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, 1922

Chaplin Seeks Income Tax Refund of $25,000 - Minus his postage stamp mustache, cane and flapping shoes, comedian Charles Chaplin (above) is shown as he appeared in federal court to seek a refund of approximately $25,000 on the income tax he paid on his 1935 earnings. However, Uncle Sam's authorities were insisting that Chaplin pay an additional sum of about $65,000. February 26, 1941. (Photo by Acme).

Juan Ventosa Calvell (Barcelona , March 7, 1879 - Lausanne , August 17, 1959 ) Lawyer, economist and politician . He was Spanish Minister of Finance and Supply during the reign of Alfonso XIII. One of the most relevant figures of Catalan political regionalism , as founder of the Regionalist League . At the outbreak of the Civil War, he worked with the side of General Franco so settled in Burgos , working abroad in the repatriation of capital through its capacity as a lawyer from the Bank of Spain .

Pasquale Amato

RETRATO DEL CONSEJERO DELEGADODON ANDRES MORENO - 1945. Author: MANUEL BENEDITO VIVES (1875-1963). Location: BANCO SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPAN. MADRID. SPAIN.

FRANZ VON PAPEN (1879-1969) POLITICO MILITAR Y DIPLOMATICO ALEMAN DE LA REPUBLICA DE WEIMAR Y DEL TERCER REICH.

Gardiner's New Job -- Sir Thomas Gardiner, Director, General of the Post Office, who here ***** Anderson's assistant in the ***** of civil *****. November 28, 1938.

JULIAN BESTEIRO-PORTADA REVISTA "CELEBRIDADES".

Sir Roderick Barclay, K.C.M.G., C.V.O - Newly-appointed British Ambassador to Denmark. August 15, 1955. (Photo by Bassano, Camera Press).

RICARDO TEJERO MAGRO (1926-1985) DIRECTOR GENERAL DEL BANCO CENTRAL ASESINADO POR ETA. Author: JOSE IGNACIO BURGUETE ALBALAT (1933-). Location: CASA DE FRANCISCO DE LAS RIVAS-CASA DE RIVAS. MADRID. SPAIN.

Portrait of (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), British Prime Minister, photographed in 1938. Date: 1938

Cardinal Giddons, front portrait.

Every year, the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft, here in Nuremberg on 27 May 1969, traditionally celebrates Sudeten German Day. Herbert Hupka, Germany, Europe

Lancelot Claude Bullock. Photograph.

Undertaker. Chicago, Illinois 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Chicago, Illinois , Cook County

Mr. Nubar Gulbenkian At The Richmond Show - Mr. Nubar Gulbenkian, who has recently been in the news owing to his sudden dismissal from the post of Commercial Attache to the Persian Embassy in London, pictured at the Richmond Horse Show, old Deer Park yesterday. June 08, 1951. (Photo by Fox Photos).

Mr Lester Brain. June 11, 1935

Donald Crisp, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Beloved Brat", First National Picture, 1938

Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005), acclaimed Canadian-born American Jewish writer. 1970s.

El historiador y escritor Ferran Soldevila.

Studio portrait of man wearing tuxedo

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Anonymous

Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian prime minister, was ***** Mayor of Oslo when Norway was invaded in April 1940. He left Oslo with the government but returned in July to resume his post as Mayor. The Germans dismissed him after one day. In 1941 he was arrested, deported to Germany in 1942, returned to Norway in 1944 and held in Gestapo headquarters in Oslo as hostage against British mosquito raids. He was liberated by home forces on May 7, 1945. resumed duties as Mayor Oslo a few days later, then was elected chairman of the labor party and is now prime minister. July 07, 1946.

Giulio natta. 1964.

Photographic portrait of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) a French composer, pianist and conductor. Dated 20th century

A. E. W. Mason. February 02, 1933.

Joseph Maurice Ravel, 1875 - 1937, French composer, pianist and conductor, leading musician in Impressionism, 1925, digitally edited

LOS HERMANOS ANTONIO Y MANUEL MACHADO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPANIEN. MACHADO MANUEL. ANTONIO MACHADO Y RUIZ (1875-1939).

Dr. Barnes. April 22, 1950.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, c1917. Artist: Unknown

President Woodrow Wilson ca. 1914-1918 Portrait.

Ralph Richardson, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Battle of Britain", United Artists, 1969

Aneurin Bevan (1897 1960); Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee ministry from 1945-51. Aneurin Bevan as Health Minister, steered the establishment of the NHS, on 5 July 1948. The National Health Service (NHS) is the public health service in the United Kingdom.

12/31/1929. Portrait of the writer Jacinto Benavente.

Hon. G. Forbes - Prime Minister of N.Z. January 1, 1931.

His Excellency Lord Bledisloe Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Francisco Cambó, in an image dated 1910.

Sir Percival Clarke -- New Studio Portrait of, Sir Percival Clarke, who was recently appointed chairman of London Sessions in Succession to Mr. Cecil Whiteley, K.C. Sir Percival who is 60, is the son of the late Sir Edward Clarke, the famous K.C.. He has been Senior Treasury Counsel at the Old Bailey since Feb. 1923 and is Recorder of Exeter. He married in 1904, Miss Norman Whalley the Australian actress. February 13, 1933.

Pietro mascagni. 1863-1945.

Tom Mooney. August 20, 1929. (Photo by Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc.).

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 1900 ñ 27 August 1979) Lord Mountbatten was a British statesman and naval officer,

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering Fireside Chat #6, Washington, D.C., USA, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, September 30, 1934

White House paintings: Revere Beach by Maurice Prendergast (1896); Brig. Gen. John Hartwell Cocke by Edward Troye (1859); Woodrow Wilson by Sir William Orpen (1919); George Washington by Rembrandt Peale (1823); Storm Clouds by Albert Bierstadt (1880); Abigail Adams by Ralph Earle (1785). Portrait of Woodrow Wilson, painted by Sir William Orpen. White House, Washington D.C.

12/31/1947. Portrait of the French writer Georges Bernanos.

Rabbi Dr. Israel Porush. June 09, 1940.

Cripps Devalues Pound - This pasture of Sir Stafford Cripps, British chancellor of the exchequor, was made at London airports, September 17 as he returned from Washington, where he had been discussing Britain's Economic plight. For several weeks there have been emphatic Denials that Britain would devalue her pound. This evening September 18, Sir Stafford announced that, after all, the pound would be devalued. September 30, 1949. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The artist and inventor of political photomontage John Haertfield at an exhibition of his works in 1964 in East Berlin, DEU, Germany, GDR, Europe

British Secretary of State for the ColoniesThe Right Honourable Oliver Lyttelton, D.S.O., M.C., M.P., British Secretary of State for the Colonies, broadcasting from a British Broadcasting Corporation studio.With Compliments from the overseas press section, British broadcasting corporation, broadcasting house, London. W.L. April 20, 1953. (Photo by BBC Photograph)

OPPENHEIMER, Julius Robert (1904-1967). American physicist.

Anefo photo collection. Artist Max Ernst passed away (head). April 2, 1976

Henry Ford, American engineer and automobile manufacturer, c1910-c1930. Artist: Unknown

Portrait of Fred M. Vinson (1890-1953) an American politician and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Dated 20th Century

Roald Amundsen. Norwegian explorer: First person to reach the South Polo in December 1911.

12/31/1936. Francesc Cambo.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Lugovskoy by Markov-Grinberg, Mark Borisovich (1907-2006)/Moscow Photo Museum (House of Photography)/1929/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Justice William Grantham (1835-1911) British Conservative politician and judge of the Queen's Bench Division

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidente de los Estados Unidos de America. Contributor: Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters

CARY GRANT in THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957), directed by STANLEY KRAMER.

Niels Bohr (1885-1962). Danish physicist. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

Niels Bohr (1885-1962). Danish physicist. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

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