Historical Figures in Formal Attire

Images of men in suits seated at desks or in a formal setting, often engaged in conversation or reflection, showcasing a historical mood.

California: c. 1947 A portrait of astronomer Edwin Hubble.

R.L. Henry

President Woodrow Wilson circa early 1900s.

Luigi Pirandello. 1920-30

Gen. Shelley, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk,facing left | Library of Congress

King Alfonzo XIII of Spain meeting with his prime minister Miguel Primo de Rividra

Vladimir Lenin. Petrograd, January 1918 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1918/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

California: c. 1947 A portrait of astronomer Edwin Hubble.

Sir Austen Chamberlain. April 22, 1936. (Photo by Keystone)

El político Manuel Fraga Iribarne en la embajada española de Londres, año 1975.

Speaker of the House Frederick H. Gillett ca. between 1918 and 1920.

Eva Braun's Photo Albums, ca. 1913 - ca. 1944. These albums are attributed to Eva Braun (four are claimed by her friend Herta Schneider, nee Ostermeyer) and document her life from ca. 1913 to 1944. There are many photographs of Eva, her sisters and their children, Herta Schneider and her children, as well as photographs of Eva's vacations, family members and friends. Included also are photographs taken by and of Eva Braun at Hitler's chalet Berghof (or Kehlstein), photographs of Hitler and his entourage, visitors to Berghof and the scenery around Berchtesgaden, and some studio portraits of Eva and members of her family.

Berenice Abbott, Untitled Portrait of unidentified sitter, 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Photo collection Government information service. A.w.f. Idenburg (1861-1935). Minister of Colonies 1902-1905, 1908-1909, 1918-1919. Governor General of the Netherlands India 1909-1916. 1916

Luigi barzini. 1947.

Woodrow Wilson, President of USA

U.S. President William Howard Taft Reading at his Desk, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Photograph by Barnett McFee Clinedinst, 1909

Senator Hiram Bingham served as from 1925-1932. He was also the archaeologist noted for his 1911 discovery of Machu Picchu in Peru.

Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in 1925 in her office at the Radium Institute, Paris, of which she was director of research from 1918-1934

01/31/1912. New mayor of Madrid. Don Joaquín Ruiz Jiménez, who yesterday was appointed president of the Madrid city council.

Anefo photo collection. Dr. G.J. Van Heuven Goedhart (former Minister of Justice). January 16, 1967

British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Churchill Coalition Government 11 May 1940 - 23 May 1945: A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty from May 1940 to the end of the war, seated at his desk at the Admiralty.

GUGLIELMO MARCONI Sitting in his study. Date: 1874 - 1937

Sir Reginald Coupland, (1884 1952) historian of the British Empire at the University of Oxford.

Sir Granville Bantock. M.A. K.T. Dr Mus.Sir Granville Bantock, The Great British Composer ***** photographe in the Library at his home, 'Mead' ***** Chalfont st Gales, Bucks. January 15, 1934.

Walter Sherman Gifford, president of AT&T ca. 1914-1918 (while working for the government) .

Theodore Roosevelt, full length portrait, seated by world globe, facing left, circa 1905

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Portrait of Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, taken in Germany, 1902. The Crown Prince is seated in a tall carved wooden chair placed on a check tile floor and framed by a doorway.

John Galsworthy, 1867-1933

Photograph of (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) at his desk with the famous briefcase, as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Date: 1937

Rene Doumic, French literary critic and man of letters, 1922. Artist: Unknown

Norman Gaynor ca. 1914.

NUÑEZ DE ARCE , GASPAR. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. VALLADOLID 1834 - 1903. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

C.H. Ingersoll

The British King, George V, giving the 1934 Royal Christmas Message by Radio.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. Lenin served as the leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. Under his administration, the Russian Empire disintegrated and was replaced by the Soviet Union, a single-party constitutionally socialist state; all wealth including land, industry and business were nationalised. Based in Marxism, his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism.

Mahatma Gandhi visits Romain Roland in Switzerland 1931. Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. Mohandas Gandhi (1869 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

President Calvin Coolidge (1872-33), seated portrait taken on May 9, 1924.

Photograph of William E. Borah (1865-1940) an American politician who represented Idaho in the United States Senate. Dated 1939

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1925. Artist: Unknown

Paul Bartlett

Lenin (1870 - 1924), Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.

JEAN LOUIS BARTHOU French lawyer and statesman, photographed in 1931. Date: 1862 - 1934

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

Winston Churchill makes his VE-Day Broadcast Date: 8th May 1945

Andrew Carnegie, April 5, 1913

Italian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic Antonio Segni sitting on a sofa and holding a book in his own house. Sassari, 1961

Portrait of Dr. Nicolaas Gerhardus van Huffel, born August 16, 1869, physicist, director of the N.V. Nederlandsche Instrumentenfabriek (later: N.V. Nederlandse instrument and Electrical Apparaten Factory), picture trader, secretary-treasurer of Kunstliefde Society in Utrecht, died January 16, 1936 .

Photograph of the newly ascended King Edward VIII (1894-1972) he abdicated in December of the same year. Dated 20th Century

Mattsson, Kastet, 50 years. Photo 1946. Mattsson, Kastet, 50 år. Foto 1946.

W.W. Bailey of PA ca. between 1909 and 1920.

12/31/1899. Edmond Rostand.

James Matthew Barrie, Scotish novelist and dramatist, author of Peter Pan. 1904. J. M. BARRIE.

BESTEIRO , JULIAN. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1870 - 1940. SFGP / © KORPA.

Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), British prime minister, c1930s (1936). Artist: Unknown

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Paul Morand, 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Frederick Grant Banting. Photograph.

Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble seated in chair with pipe

Lady Grey's house, April 1934, Wellington, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

President Woodrow Wilson with private secretary Joseph Tumulty circa early 1900s.

Imperial Governor of Bavaria - Knight of Epp. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Premier Tells The Nation Of 'Cuts' -- Mr. Clement Attlee preparing to broadcast to the nation at 10, Downing Street to-night. A few hours after he had told Parliament of the £250,000,000 crisis cuts to be made in the nation's expenditure, Mr. Clement Attlee, British premier, broadcast to the people from 10, Downing Street to-night (Monday). October 24, 1949. (Reuterphoto).

Rachmaninoff, the world - famous pianist and composer, who is staying in London now as a prelude to a tour of England and Ireland, photographed at the Piccadilly Hotel. Rachmaninoff, the world - famous pianist and composer, who is to tour England and give a series of concerts. He is to visit Ireland for the first time. March 3, 1938. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited).

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

Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma a former Premier ***** Premier Konoye's Cabinet of 1940 *****. April 17, 1939. (Photo by Japan Photo Library).

Reproduction to a photo of Willem Witsen, Anonymous, After Willem Witsen, c. 1860 - c. 1915 photograph Netherlands paper. photographic support gelatin silver print

Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky (1881-1970) Russian revolutionary leader. Minister for war in 1917.

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States 1913-1921, Half-Length Portrait seated at desk in White House Oval Office, Washington, D.C., USA, Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1913-1917

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Bernhard. 1963

Earl Lewis

Richard Clarke Cabot. Photogravure after E. Purdy.

Photograph of Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) an Austrian composer of Slovene origin. Dated 19th Century

HENRY (or Henri) BATAILLE French playwright, author of 'La femme nue' and 'La vierge folle' among others. in 1913. Date: 1872 - 1922

12/31/1929. Thomas Mann.

JESUS MARIA DE LEIZAOLA, LEHENDAKARI EN EL EXILIO DE 1960 A 1979, PARIS. Location: FUNDACION PABLO IGLESIAS. MADRID. SPAIN. JESUS MARIA DE LEIZAOLA (1896-1989).

Luigi Pirandello.

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States 1913-1921, Three-Quarter Length Portrait seated at desk in White House Oval Office, Washington, D.C., USA, Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1913-1917

M. Claudel & Mlle Reine - French Ambassador To U.S.A. June 05, 1952.

Anefo photo collection. Dr. D.R. Van Houten Gezant in Mexico 15-01-1951. December 27, 1950. Mexico

John Foster Dulles.... curiously old-fashioned power play. October 18, 1952.

The R. Ioi Disaster Picture Shows: A recent portrait of Lord Thomson with his secretary Mr. Bullock. October 5, 1930. (Photo by Photopress)

Getlio Dornelles Vargas (1882 ñ 1954)President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and in a democratically elected term from 1951 until his suicide in 1954

Hatiro Arita - Former Jap.Min. Foreign Affairs. January 23, 1939. (Photo by Sun Photo Service).

ORSON WELLES in CITIZEN KANE (1941), directed by ORSON WELLES.

Ex-President Grover Cleveland at home in Princeton, N.J. At this point both a scholar and statesman, sitting at his desk. He is the only president to serve two non-consecutive presidential terms.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK in MARNIE (1964), directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

Antonio Machado (right) (1875 22 February 1939), Spanish republican poet with his brother the poet, Manuel Machado (1874 1947

The Machado Brothers with Margarita Xirgú, in March 1932, at the premiere of "The Duchess of Benamejí" -Approximate date.

12/31/1929. The actor Santiago Artigas.

Portrait of Haupman Humbyry, 1924 Portrait of Haupman Humbyry.

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) New Zealand atomic physicist during a visit home to New Zealand in 1926. Photograph by courtesy of the Cawthorn Institute, Nelson, New Zealand.

03/12/1911. The deputy Mr. Ángel Urzaiz y Cuesta, who the day before yesterday and yesterday gave Sensational Speeches in Congress.

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI, Department of Justice, Portrait on Telephone, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, April 1940

Hungary, Budapest, Portrait of Bela Viktor Janos Bartok while composing

12/31/1962. Juan Domingo Perón at his home in Madrid.

Ken Annakin - Film Director. January 1, 1953.

EDITORIAL President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, seen here at the Quebec Conference, 10-17 September, 1944. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 -1945, commonly known by his initials FDR. American sta

Jules Massenet, French composer, 1905. Artist: Unknown

Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy Valerian Kuybyshev, Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)

Sir William Osler in Edward Jenner's chair in the room of the Regius Professor of Medicine, University Museum, Oxford. Photograph.

Republican candidate for President Warren Harding with running mate, Calvin Coolidge. Harding was a first term Senator from Ohio and Coolidge was the Governor of Massachusetts. June 20, 1920. (BSLOC_2015_15_39)

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