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Historical photos capturing important political meetings and ceremonies, highlighting notable leaders and moments in history.

President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice President John Nance Garner at the White House. June 12, 1936.

Innauguaration of President Woodrow Wilson - first term of office. Credit : Edimedia collection.

General C. Condylis - Prime Minister of Greece - Personality. December 2, 1935.

Liberal Prime Minister Lloyd George speaking at Welsh National Eisteddfod, Aug. 1917. A year into World War 1, he spoke idealistically of the Great Empire that is essential to freedom (BSLOC_2017_1_68)

Anefo photo collection. Arrival of Harald Kreutzberg at Central Station in Amsterdam. Harald Kreutzberg dancer and choreographer, ed., Which will make a tour through our country. November 1, 1950. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Sir Abe Bailey. April 16, 1934. (Photo by London News Agency Pty Ltd).

Photograph of Leon Trotsky during the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire). Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) a Marxist revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician. Dated 20th Century

11/30/1917. In the Llorens salon, in Seville. Former liberal minister Mr. Alba (X) at his recent political conference.

Photograph taken during the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) an American politician, lawyer and 16th President of the United States of America. Dated 19th Century

MACHADO,ORTEGA,MARAÑON Y PEREZ DE AYALA. JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET. MARAÑON GREGORIO. ANTONIO MACHADO Y RUIZ (1875-1939). RAMON PEREZ DE AYALA (1888-1962).

Booker T. Washington and distinguished guests, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Underwood & Underwood (American, 1881 - 1940s); April 1906; Gelatin silver print;

Francisco Zayas. Minister of Public Instruction of the government of Cuba. Portrait. Photoengraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1898.

12/31/1919. Rafael González, president of the Guerrita club, with the bullfighter Rafael Guerrita.

"V" For Victory - A Closeup of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as cigar in mouth he formed the "V" for victory to cheering throngs who met him upon his arrival in Canada for war council meetings for his address before Parliament today Dec. 30th. February 7, 1942. (Photo by International News Photo).

Torcuato Luca de Tena and Alvarez-Ossorio (Sevilla, February 21, 1861 - Madrid, 15 April 1929), Spanish journalist, I Marquis de Luca de Tena.

Halil Bey

Date: 1910-1915 - Venizelos .

Elsevier photo collection. Crown Prince Hirohito from Japan in Rotterdam. Reception in the town hall. In addition to the Crown Prince Prince Hendrik, Right Prince Yasuhito?. Standing with Burgemeester Zimmerman's office chain. June 1921. Rotterdam, South Holland

PAUL VERLAINE French poet, characteristically photographed in a cafe. Date: 1844 - 1896

JULIO ROMERO DE TORRES CON ALFONSO CAMIN (POETA ASTURIANO) - CORDOBA - 1929. Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. CORDOBA. SPAIN.

Shaw's Boswell - Shaw the Actor: Bernard Shaw acts for the camera, pretending to be talking earnestly without saying a word. Note mittens, jaunty swing of the nonagenarian legs. Dr. Loewonttain, in character as "Boswell', is less assertive. July 28, 1947. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

01/31/1908. Lisbon. In the legation of Spain. Group of Attendees At the reception and banquet held in honor of the Infante Don Fernando (X).

Raymond Poincaré (20 August 1860 - 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served three times as Prime Minister, and as President from 1913 to 1920. seen here in london with King George V. Circa 1919

02/08/1918. In the Galician center, Madrid. The Archbishop of Tarragona (X), with the Countess of Pardo Bazán and the president of the Center, Mr. Espada, at the end of his interesting conference last night.

Giovanni verga, 1887

Former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau Leaving White House, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, December 1922

09/30/1919. Madrid. In the Ministry of Public Instruction. The Minister, Mr. Prado y Palacio (1), with Mr. Bergamin (2), after giving the latter his position as president of the council of public instruction.

U.S. President Meets South African Premier -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U.S. (right) confers with Field Marshal Jan C. Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa, at Cairo, Egypt. The Allied statesmen met after President Roosevelt returned from his historic Teheran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian Premier Joseph Stalin. January 13, 1944.

Photograph of Stafford Cripps (1889-1952) a British Labour politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dated 20th Century

HENRI ROCHEFORT French journalist, always ready to stick his neck out, photographed towards the end of his life, about 1904. Date: 1831-1913

Pierre Laval seen here giving evidence at the trial of Philippe Petain, 23 July, 1945. Pierre Jean Marie Laval, 1883 -1945. French politician and Prime Minister of France. Henri Philippe Benoni Omer

Stage pictures. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mexican President Avila Camacho riding in convertible car, Monterrey, Mexico, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, April 20, 1943

12/31/1929. Francisco Alvear Gómez de la Cortina.

Angelo Majorana Calatabiano (1865-1910), Italian lawyer and politician, in his studio, Italy, photograph by F Reale, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 31, August 5, 1906.

12/31/1929. The writer Jose María Peman with the Spanish composer Manuel de falla.

Maxim Litvinov (1876 1951)Russian revolutionary and diplomat meets French Foreign Minister, Jean Louis Barthou (1862 1934)

American President Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Europe, World War I, from l'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLV, No 51, December 22, 1918.

Week of 17 January 1943 - Conference at Casablanca, Morocco - President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill talk on the lawn of the President's villa.

Diamond Jim Brady, an American businessman, financier, and philanthropist, c. 1900. The 1935 film DIAMOND JIM by Preston Sturges was loosely based on his life (BSLOC_2017_2_182)

US President William McKinley and Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, 1899 (1951). Artist: Unknown

Irish leader De Valera and British premier Lloyd George meet at Downing Street, London, leading to the treaty of London which brought peace for a few months... Date: 14 July 1921

Vladimir Lenin at the Stepan Razin monument dedication by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1919/Photograph/Russia/History

Susan B. Anthony 1899 Crusader for Women's Suffrage (1820-1906)

W.V. Cleary

Photograph of David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Welsh Liberal statesman, taken during a speech to the Junior Liberal Club on the 16th March 1932. Date: 1932

MARTINEZ SIERRA , GREGORIO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1881 - 1947. FOTO CON EL COMPOSITOR JOSE MARIA USANDIZAGA , AUTORES DE " LAS GOLONDRINAS ".

Lord Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane 1st viscount Haldane 1856 to 1928 British liberal and labour politician lawyer and philosopher From the book The Year 1912 illustrated published London 1913

Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, leader of the military government of Spain with King Alphonso XIII 1923

The Greek royal family, from left to right, 1 Prince Nicholas, 2 Crown Princess Alexandra, 3 Crown Prince Constantine, 4 Prince Andrew, 5 Princess Maria (his wife), 6 Prince George, eldest son of Crown Prince Constantine, 7 Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevitch Romanov (father of the groom), 8 Queen Olga Konstantinovna, 9 George I of Greece, 10 Grand Duke Georgy Romanov Michajlovitch (the groom), 11 Prince Alexander, second son of Crown Prince Constantine, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVII, No

The chemist Dmitri Mendeleev at the on the 200th anniversary of Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin by Anonymous /Private Collection/1900/Photograph/Portrait,History

11/05/1914. In Prince Alfonso. The illustrious writer Mr. Antonio Cavestany, in the conference he gave yesterday afternoon at the Spanish Ladies Union.

Photograph of Paul Von Hindenburg (1847 - 1934) The second President of Germany and Prussian-German field Marshal. Dated 1917

Paderewski Polish Commission

Composer Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) and pianist and conductor Alexander Siloti (1863-1945), Anonymous

Russian-American Toast -- Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (Right), U.S. Ambassador to Russia, and Andrei A. Gromyko, Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister, touch glasses at a reception before the annual dinner of the American Russian Institute at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel here tonight. May 19, 1947. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft with Group of People at Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1904

Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer

RENE DOUMIC French critic and historian of French literature, photographed in 1922. Date: 1860 - 1937

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections.Bryan's efforts on behalf of farmers and laborers (the so-called "common" people) earned him the title the "Great Commoner."

A rare photograph of a smiling Queen Victoria taken in 1898 at the age of 79 during her Jubilee celebrations. Date: 15th February 1898

Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71, DEU, Germany, Europe

Calvin Coolidge Jr., President Calvin Cooldige, Grace Coolidge, John Coolidge and John C.Coolidge, 1923

CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

Anefo photo collection. Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli new pope, Johannes XXIII. October 28, 1958

Men With A SecretTwo men who might be in on the secret which has kept the world guessing for the past week (left) Major Gwilym Lloyd George, the Home Secretary, and Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Foreign Minster. They were photo graphed leaving Downing-street after the Cabinet meeting called by Sir Anthony Eden yesterday. It was not revealed whether they discussed Princess Margaret's future during the talks. December 19, 1955.

Edgardo Simone, Sir Esme Howard ca. between 1909 and 1932.

05/04/1946. Conference by Jose Ortega y Gasset at the Madrid Athenaeum.

Vladimir Lenin in Gorki. August - September 1922 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1922/Photograph/Russia/History

MARTINEZ SIERRA , GREGORIO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1881 - 1947. FOTO CON EL COMPOSITOR JOSE MARIA USANDIZAGA , AUTORES DE " LAS GOLONDRINAS ".

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German theoretical physicist (left) with Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967) (right), American theoretical physicist. 1947

Photograph of Leonard W. Boehner. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

PETER O'TOOLE in GOODBYE, MR CHIPS (1969), directed by HERBERT ROSS.

U.S. President William McKinley Delivering his last Address, Buffalo, New York, USA, Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston, September 5, 1901

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945 and again 1951-1955 with Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher in Cairo.

Black and white photograph of Leon Degrelle (1906-1994), Belgian politician and leader of the Rexist Party.

Photograph of Albert Einstein with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. Dated 1951

'His Majesty with President Poincare at The British General Headquarters in France', c1916, (1935). Creator: Unknown.

1917. Pope John Xxiii with his Brothers Zaverio and Guiseppe.

Photograph of the Funeral procession for Queen Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925) to Westminster Abbey. Pictured: King George V (1865-1936), Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), Crown Prince Olaf V of Norway (1903-1991), (1895-1952) and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974). Dated 20th Century

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, OM, PC (13 July 1859 - 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London School of Economics. He was an early member of the Fabian Society in 1884, joining, like George Bernard Shaw, three months after its inception. Along with his wife Beatrice Webb and with Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent politico-intellectual society in Edwardian England

07/31/1920. Santander. From Medical Week. HM Queen Victoria (1), with the Duke of Albany (2) and the Medical Congressmen, during her visit to the Santillana collegiate church.

Vladimir Lenin at the funeral of Yakov Sverdlov by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1919/Photograph/Russia/History

JosÈ Antonio Aguirre y Lecube (6 March 1904 ñ 22 March 1960) was a major political figure of Basque nationalism and the first President of the Basque Autonomous Community, from 1936 to 1960.

Anefo photo collection. Television call Eisenhower and Mac Millan. August 31, 1959

Sigmund and Anna Freud (daughter) 1929. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 23 September 1939); Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. 1929

Johann strauss and johannes brahms, 1893

06/28/1919. His Majesty the King in San Sebastian. Mr. Alfonso Xiii (X), Leaving the María Cristina hotel to go to Miramar.

Philosophers --- Old And New.Two philosophers representing wide extremes of their science are brought together in this photo in the persons of Rabindranath Tagore, aged Indian Mystic poet, and Will Durant, American philosopher-author. They met at the Broadway Theatre during the benefit for the University of India, which was sponsored by Tagore. Rugh St. Denis, famous dancer, also appeared on the program in ancient Indian dances. February 19, 1931. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

Sir Frederick Ponsonby (Keeper of the Privy Purse for King George V from 1914 to 1935), auctions a painting by Winston Churchill at a charity event at Balmoral while Queen Mary looks on; Scotland 1928

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908). President of the United States. Proclamation of President Cleveland. Engraving by Rico in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1885. Colored.

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), político austríaco, principal ideólogo del nazismo, con miembros de su partido. Año 1930.

President Theodore Roosevelt making speech with American flag

Bela BARTOK, 1881-1945 Hungarian composer, with his second wife Ditta Pasztory, photograph

Black and white photographs showing Alejandro Lerroux, previous head of the Republic under the monarchy.

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian writer, left, with Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian writer, philosopher and mystic. Photograph

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin. Russian Communist leader. 1920's Soviet poster.

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