Historic Portraits of Noted Figures

A collection of black and white portraits depicting notable male figures from history, showcasing formal attire and classic photography styles.

Imperial tobacco of Canada cigarette card of Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith M.P.

Portrait of a theater artist

GIACOMO PUCCINI Italian opera composer Date: 1858 - 1924

Sir William Arbuthnot Lane. Photogravure after Elliott & Fry.

Douglas Jenkins. Original caption: Douglas Jenkins, US Foreign Minister to Bolivia, 1939-1940.

G. Schmidt SR / Founder - Director / Central Leadership.

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, 1872 - 1928. Norwegian explorer of polar regions, leader of the Antarctic expedition of 1910-12 which was the first to reach the South Pole. After an early 20th ce

Imperial tobacco of Canada cigarette card of Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith M.P.

Max von Schillings (1868-1933). German composer, conductor and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera (1919-1925). Portrait.

Alvear, Marcelo Torcuato de (1868-1942). Político argentino, embajador, diputado y presidente entre el 12 de octubre de 1922 a la misma fecha del año 1928. MÁXIMO MARCELO TORCUATO DE ALVEAR.

1923. Portrait of the journalist Miguel de Zárraga.

GARNET, 1ST VISCOUNT WOLSELEY military commander Date: 1833 - 1913

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) French musician and composer

WOODROW WILSON American president and Nobel Prizewinner in 1919 Date: 1856 - 1924

Portrait of Aeronautical Pioneer Wilbur Wright

Station champion Carl A. Hydén.

Richard Harding Davis, 1864 - 1916. American writer and journalist. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, American, Volume 16""

Photo collection Government information service. Dr. YOU M. Schmutzer (1882-1946). Minister of overseas territories 1945 (Gerbrandy III cabinet). undated

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1st Earl of Balfour British politician ; conservative MP Date: circa 1900

Elsevier photo collection. JHR.MR. L.H.L.J. Van der Maesen de Sombreff, subdistrict court judge Heerlen, Senate. 1925. Heerlen

Photo collection Risk information service Own Print RVD London .. Administrative function. Mr. H.A.M.T. Kolfschoten. Minister of Justice 1945-1946. undated

Portrait of Jacobus Adrianus Cornelis ('Koos') van Leeuwen, born 8 February 1870, professor in theology at the Utrecht University (1908-1930), died August 13, 1930. Busteling on the right.

Brigadier-General Lord Thomson, Christopher Birdwood, 1st Baron Thomson (1875 - 1930), Secretary of State for Air; killed in the R101 airship disaster. 1930

Elsevier photo collection. L. van Lier, director Theater van Lier. 1926

Jack F. Marshall. Photograph by Vandyk, London, 1930.

Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, March 4, 1933 to November 30, 1944

H.L. Wilson

FALLA Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Spanish composer

12/31/1909. An image of Nikola Tesla.

12/31/1909. Don Federico Carlos Bas.

Thomas Wilson Parry. Photograph, 1923.

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (1848 1930) was a British Conservative politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905. When he came into his inheritance at 21 Balfour became one of the wealthiest young men in Britain. He rose to prominence by suppressing agrarian unrest in Ireland through punitive action combined with measures against absentee landlords. After a period of being highly influential in government, he succeeded his uncle, Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader in July 1902.

President Warren Harding in a portrait by society photographer Bachrach, ca. 1921-23. (BSLOC_2015_15_6)

Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7) (1836) (November 12) (1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7) (1836) (November 12) (1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Major General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, formerly Prince Alexander of Teck (14 April 1874-16 January 1957), was a member of the British Royal Family who served as the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 21 January 1923 to 21 December 1930 and then as Governor General of Canada from 21 June 1940 to 12 April 1946. He was the youngest brother of Queen Mary, consort of King George V. Date:

Andrew A. Veblen, 1848-1932. Norwegian-American school man, brother of T. Veblen. Teacher at Iowa University from 1883 as professor of physics from 1886 to 1905. 1899 had emigrants from Valdres begun to meet in convention in the Midwest every summer. Under the leadership Veblen was sued in 1902 converted into an association under the name Valdres Communications.

William Hugh Fenton. Photograph by Thomson.

William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins. Photogravure.

Portrait of Charles WilliamElliot. Artist: Sidney Smith, American

Elsevier photo collection. Bust J.C.A. Everwijn, Dutch envoy United America. 1921. America

Photo production of a drawing, representing a portrait of Henri van Wermeskerken by Antoon van Welie, Adam Frequin, after Antoon van Welie, in or after 1930 photograph The Hague photographic support gelatin silver print writer, poet, author

William Blair Bell. Photograph by J. Bacon & Sons.

JAMES STUART as featured in the Illustrated London News on his appointment as a Companion of Honour to the new Conservative Cabinet in 1957. Two years later, he will be elevated to the peerage and known as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn. 1897 - 1971

Photo collection Government information service. State Secretary for Defense / Klu J.J.F. Borghouts (1965-1966). Deceased 5 February 1966 .. Undated

HENRY JAMES American writer Date: 1843 - 1916

Academician Alexander Alexandrovich Skochinsky (1874-1960) by Anonymous /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

ANTON BRUCKNER Austrian musician Date: 1824 - 1896

Oskar Hugo Reinhold Reine, Telegraph commissioner in Ystad. 1.1.1938 - 31.10.1942. Born 16.7.1883.

Prof. Dr. W. Pompe.

Maurice George Costello (1877-1950), actor de vodevil y de cine, y director cinematográfico estadounidense.

Henry Charles Keith Petty- Fitzmaurice, 5th marquis of LANSDOWNE statesman Date: 1845 - 1927

Unknown photographer, portrait Hermann Jansen (without year): portrait of Hermann Jansen. Photo on cardboard, 32.2 x 24.9 cm (including scan edges)

Studio Portrait of an Unknown Man, circa 1928, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

Photograph of John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright. Dated 1928.

Portrait of Theodore Roberts. Vintage Photoplay Magazine photograph portrait of the movie actor, circa 1915

Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944); English architect at time he became President of the Royal Academy - 1938

John Stewart. Photograph by Gauvin & Gentzel.

E.B. Cooley

Elsevier photo collection. Anton Frederik Philips, director N.V. Philips. 1922-1933}

Tingey studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

Anton Bruckner Austrian composer,, artist unknown. Museum: Society Friends of Music, VIENA, AUSTRIA.

Portret van Benjamin Dawson Maggs.Portrait on the inside of a publication in memory of Benjamin Dawson Maggs, Firmant of Maggs Bros in London.

Nicolaas Hendrik Swellengrebel. Photograph by Blackstone Studios, Inc.

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) Italian opera composer

Elsevier photo collection. Mr. A. V.D. Hoeven, alderman Rotterdam. 1921. Rotterdam, South Holland

Academician Alexander Alexandrovich Skochinsky (1874-1960), Anonymous

Thomas A. Edison , Men, Phonographs, Sound recordings, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Adm. B.A. Fiske

Henry George Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882 1947); Viscount Lascelles. British soldier, peer and a Yorkshire landowner. He was the son-in-law of King George V and Queen Mary.

Henry James, American novelist, late 19th-early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

'Rev. Dr. Edmond Warre (1884-1905) English cleric, oarsman and Headmaster of Eton College 1884-1905, pictured c1890.'

Hans Thorvald Aagaard (8 June 1877 - 22 March 1937) was a Danish composer, organist, violinist and music teacher, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period.

'Rudyard Kipling', 1935, (1933). Artist: GL Manuel Freres.

Elsevier photo collection. Minister W. Drees. 1946. Hague, South Holland

Portrait of L.M.R. RUTTEN, born 1884, professor in Geology and Mineralogie at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (1922-1946), died 1946. Bustelmat on the left.

Arthur Robertson Cushny. Photograph by Moffat.

Jhr. Mr. L. H. J. M. van Asch van Wijck

Photo collection Risk information service Own Print RVD London .. unknown. J. Meynen, Minister of War (1945-1946). undated

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States 1913-1921, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Photograph by Harris & Ewing 1919

Sir James Hodsdon. Photograph by J. Russell & Sons.

Mr W H Smith, 1911. Creator: Unknown.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28; 1856 - February 3; 1924) was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921

Hector Hugh Munro, or Saki, (1870- 1916). Saki's stories satirized the Edwardian social scene. He wrote a number of stort stories including 'The Open Window', 'The Westminster Alice' and 'Beasts and Super-Beasts'. Date: 1914

Paul Blomqvist Station Manager Falun 1/6 1958 - 31/5 1966

J.L. Garvin. Alvin Langdon Coburn (British, born United States, 1882 - 1966)

Cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman circa 1905-1945.

Argentine lawyer and politician Miguel Serapio Ortiz (1847-1925), who served as minister of the interior of Argentina

Director Åke Nerell.

Hans Thorvald Aagaard (8 June 1877 - 22 March 1937) was a Danish composer, organist, violinist and music teacher, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period

Carl Hartmann. From the estate of Dr. med. Renate Scholz, Gift of N. N., 2009

ANDREW BONAR LAW statesman Date: 1858-1923

Dr. Fredrico Carvajal, President Dominican Republic ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Sir Richard Douglas Powell M.D., medical adviser to the Royal family and present at the death of both Queen Victoria in 1901 and Edward VII in 1910. Powell was one of the signatories to the official announcement of the king's death posted outside Buckingham Palace. 1910

William Lloyd Garrison, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, age thirty, 1885? , Antislavery movements, United States, History, 19th century, Abolitionists, United States, 19th century, Antislavery movements, United States, Abolitionists, United States, History, 19th century, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Sartain, John, 1808-1897, Torrey, Manasseh Cutler, 1807-1837

Portrait of Pètrus Jan Rienstra from Stuyvesande (1905-1980).

JOHN GALSWORTHY Author of 'The Forsyte Saga' and other novels, and of 'Loyalties', 'The skin game' and other plays. Date: 1867 - 1933

Timothy Cole, after John Singer Sargent, Woodrow Wilson, 1918 Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Anderson Henry. Photograph.

Silver gelatin photograph of Arthur von Hübl, taken by Rudolf Koppitz around 1930, showing upper body, attire, and seated pose in a studio setting.

12/31/1919. Henri Bergson.

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