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Historic Male Portraits

Black and white portraits of men in formal attire, showcasing early 20th-century style. Serious expressions and classic poses evoke a sense of history.

Mexican politician and lawyer José Lopéz Portillo y Rojas (1850-1923),

10/09/1913. Mr. Eduardo Dato, who has been commissioned by His Majesty to form the Cabinet, and answer today at Twelve.

United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler ca. 1914-1918.

Álvarez y González, Melquíades (Gijón, 1869-Madrid, 1936). Abogado, político, diputado a Cortes, militó en el Partido reformista.

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) in 1910. Italian composer, mainly of opera. After a photograph.

Thomas C. Daly ca. 1910-1915.

Jean Viviani 1863-1925; Prime Minister of France 1914 World War I

March 1916. New Consul. Don Tomás Sierra, number one of the Oppositions to the consular corps that have just been verified. Photo: Vandel -Approximate date.

Rabaud

GEORGE EDWARD STANHOPE MOLYNEUX HERBERT 5th Earl of Carnarvon

Andre (Charles Prosper) Messager (1853-1919) in about 1890. French composer and conductor. After a photograph.

Neville Chamberlain

Manuel E. Cabrera, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left

T.W.H. Crosland

C.W. Danziger

Photographic portrait of Count Vladimir Nikolaevich Kokovtsov (1853-1943) a Russian politician and Prime Minister of Russia. Dated 20th Century

1915. Mr. José Maluquer and Salvador, academic of merit of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence.

03/31/1914. The New Senators for Life. Count of Peñalver.

Clement Shorter

GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924). Compositor italiano. Fotografía. S. XIX-XX (S. XIX-S. XX) .

Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State. June 6, 1949. (Photo by Karsh, Camera Press).

12/31/1899. Portrait of Mariano de Cavia.

W.A.F. Ekengren

04/30/1913. The illustrious journalist and deputy to the Cortes, Don Luis Morote, who died yesterday, with autographed dedication.

Hale Holden

Dr. F. Vasquez Gomez.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS writer, historian Date: 1866 - 1946

Chas. Page Bryan, portrait bust

United States Senator Henry Lee Myers of Montana ca. early 1900s.

Cecil John Rhodes, 1853 to1902. English-born, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War, Volume 1 by Louis Creswicke, published 1900.

Eduard Evgenievich Peplovsky ca. 1907.

Charles George Gordon', (1833-85), English soldier, 1894-1907. Artist: Unknown.

Recasens Girol, Sebastián (Barcelona, 1863-Madrid, 1933). Doctor en Ginecología y Obstetricia. Fué el tocólogo de la reina Victoria Eugenia. Presidió la Academia Medicofarmacéutica de Barcelona y la Academia Nacional de Medicina.

'Lord Marcus Beresford', 1911. Artist: Unknown.

Mr. Roland Foster, President of music week which terminates today (Saturday, September 3rd). January 1, 1932.

March 1922. The new mayor of Madrid, Don José María Garay, Count of the Suchil Valley.

G. Ferrero

A.S. Van Westrum

12/31/1929. Portrait of the writer Stefan Zweig.

E.H. Harriman, seated in chair

Wothington Whitehouse, standing three-quarters

9th Duke of Devonshire - Died 1938. November 26, 1922. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.).

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss mathematician in 1905

Lewis MORRIS, 1833-1907, Welsh poet, knighted in 1896

Benito Mussolini (1883 ñ 28 April 1945) Italian politician, journalist, as a young editor 1914

David Lamar, 12/30/15

Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, an American attorney and prohibitionist. His most famous contribution to the prohibition movement was making the Anti-Saloon League the first organized political pressure group in the United States, circa 1922

Georges Fernand Isidore Widal. Photograph by Eugène Pirou.

05/31/1918. Mr. Manuel Vicente Tutor, deputy director general of Postal and Telegraph Services, who died in Madrid.

Bainbridge Colby, U.S. Secretary of State, March 23, 1920 to March 4, 1921

A.E. Johnstone

PRUDENCIO BERTRANA (1867-1941) - ESCRITOR MODERNISTA.

Jos. Stransky

Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet, 1829 -1906. English industrialist. From The Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser, published 1907.

Dr. Edward Benes, Czechoslovakia President. March 1, 1938. (Photo by Centropress).

Gaston Liebert

Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (1873-1945), Anonymous

Edvard Bene (1884 - 1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia

Conde de los Andes Francisco Moreno Zuleta ( Jerez de la Frontera , August 4, 1880 - Madrid, July 3, 1963 ) was a Spanish lawyer and politician who held the positions of Minister of Finance and National Economy under the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera.

09/30/1915. Deceased Journalist. The Editor-in-chief of "el Liberal" and councilor of the Madrid city council, Mr. Enrique Trompeta, whose burial will take place today.

Frank Dempster Sherman

Capt. H. Crookshank - Financial Secy. to the initial treasury 1939. December 30, 1935.

Boni de Castellane (1867-1932), French Nobleman and Politician, Husband of American Railroad Heiress Anna Gould, Portrait, Bain News Service, 1909

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 21660518

Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (1873-1945), Anonymous

Louis Bleriot was the first man to fly the English Channel, winning the £1,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail. Bleriot became a successful airplane manufacturer, specializing in monoplanes.

A. Betti

Samuel Taylor Darling. Photograph.

Robert Goelet

Portrait of A.E. Baun

Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch

CAVIA, MARIANO DE ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. ZARAGOZA 1855-1919.

Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), Italian Opera Composer, head and shoulders portrait, Unidentified Artist, 1913

The inventor Guillermo Marconi in 1909. Photograph by Harlingue.

12/31/1917. Dr. Gereda, director of the Guadarrama sanatorium, who died in Madrid as a result of a motorcycle accident.

12/31/1929. A portrait of Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena.

H. LaV. Twining

07/31/1922. The illustrious doctor D. Caesar Juarros who has just published an interesting book titled "The City of Beautiful Eyes".

Wright, Orville (Dayton, 1871-1948). American aviator. With his brother is credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

03/31/1914. Mr. Juan A. Cavestany, senator for life.

W.Clark Russell, 1844-1911. After a photography by Elliott & Fry, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

01/31/1916. The new minister of the Court of Accounts, Mr. Vicente Navarro reverter y Gomis.

Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Italian poet and writer, photograph by Nunes-Vais, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 20, May 17, 1903.

Charles Herbert Best. Photograph.

ALBERT EINSTEIN German born physicist. Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921. Date: 1879 - 1955

President of the Seville Athenaeum 1927 - 1928.

12/31/1909. Portrait of the painter Julio Romero de Torres.

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner,1854 to 1925. British statesman and colonial administrator. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal War, Volume 1 by Louis Creswicke, published 1900.

Sir Geo. Cave

Alexander Bruce. Photograph by A. Swan Watson.

PETER SELLERS in YOUR PAST IS SHOWING (1957) -Original title: THE NAKED TRUTH-, directed by MARIO ZAMPI.

Hugo von HOFMANNSTHAL, 1874-1929 Austrian librettist, photograph

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 21660480

The physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1879-1944), Anonymous

Giacomo Puccini in jacket, smoking cigarette.

Ruggero leoncavallo. 1857-1919.

04/30/1921. The new language academic and distinguished collaborator of Abc, Don Julio Casares - photo M. Roca -.

Jose de Jesus Rabi, (1845-1915), 1920s. Artist: Unknown

Melville Fuller, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1888-1910

Marquis Inouye. Photograph shows Katsunosuke Inoue (1861-1929), a Japanese diplomat and businessman. Photograph probably taken at the time when Inoue was replaced as Japanese ambassador to Britain and travelled back to Japan through the United States.

Bofill y Matas, Jaume (Olot, 1878-Barcelona, 1933). Poeta conocido como Guerau de Liost. Ganador de la Viola, en 1913.

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