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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.

Poll photo collection. Zegeis with MS Baleran Rotterdam Lloyd. The Egyptian Minister of War: Hassan Sabry Pasha. 1935. Cairo, Egypt

Lenin, vladimir ilyich ulyanov

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

Elsevier photo collection. Prime Minister W. Schermerhorn radio microphone. 1945

Portrait of the Composer Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Anonymous

Portrait of Carel Willink and A.M. Hammacher.

Photograph of William Walton (1902-1983) an English composer. Dated 20th Century

Sir James Barrie M.A. -- Of "Peter Pan" fame and Scotland's senior home Dramatist in Edinburgh on Saturday November 21st and will produce it in London on December 14. Sir James who is 76 has written no plays for many years. He was unable to be present at the theatre owing to "lumbago". January 13, 1937. (Photo by Hay Wrightson).

SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN.

Sir Percy Spender - Personality. November 12, 1940.

Commonwealth Prime Ministers gather in London for the coronation of King george VI 1937. joseph Lyons of Australia

Italian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic Antonio Segni smiling in his own house. Sassari, 1961

Soviet Personalities: Mikhail Sholokhov. Well known author, he celebrated his 50th birthday this year. His most famous book is "And Quiet Flows the Don" which has been translated into over sixty languages. July 20, 1955. (Photo by Camera Press).

01/31/1912. Distinguished Guest. The Portuguese politician Magalhaes Lima, who has given several conferences in Madrid.

Vladimir Lenin at his desk in his office in the Kremlin. 1918, Moscow. Otsup P. A.

Stephane Lauzanne

Anefo photo collection. Portrait of the writer William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) as a result of his serious illness. December 12, 1965

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.

J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940. Under his leadership the FBI was established and over the next 32 years, he would hold the post, becoming so powerful that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson dared not fire him.

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

Photographic portrait of Count Terauchi Masatake (1852-1919) Japanese military officer, proconsul and politician. He was a Gensui in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 18th Prime Minister of Japan. Dated 1918

The Earl of Albemarle. June 05, 1950. (Photo by Tom L Blau, Camera Press).

Winston Churchill makes his VE Day Broadcast 8th May 1945

Josef Stalin in his Kremlin study by Anonymous /Private Collection/1935/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Marquis Inouye

Chevalier Van Rappard

Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt Smiling from Automobile, October 1910

Roscoe Conkling

FRITZ LANG in YOU AND ME (1938), directed by FRITZ LANG.

Karl Lénberg. (Probably in 1918).

United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

Photograph of Jose Martinez Ruiz with Pio Baroja. Jose Augusto Trinidad Martinez Ruiz (1873-1967) a Spanish novelist, essayist and literary critic. Pio Baroja y Nessi (1872-1956) a Spanish writer

FRANK CAPRA in FRANK CAPRA: MR AMERICA (2023), directed by MATTHEW WELLS.

Composers Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov by Anonymous /Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/c. 1903-1906/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Allen Dulles of State Dept., 9/23/24

Alfred North Whitehead. Photograph.

Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, watching 'stereoscopic' television at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, June 1942. This stereoscopic, or three-dimensional, television required the wearing of special coloured spectacles, as modelled here by Mr. Baird. Date: 1942

ORTEGA Y GASSET , JOSE FILOSOFO Y ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1883 - 1955 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

John Huston, on-set of the Film, "The Cardinal", Columbia Pictures, 1963

Thomas Edison, American inventor and engineer in 1925. He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and sustained electric light bulb (BSLOC_2016_10_7)

King Alfonso XIII of Spain with Prime Minister Jose Canalejas Mendez, photo from L'Illustration, No 3515, July 9, 1910.

Photo collection Government information service. A photo taken in 1934 in Tangier of Jan Jacobus Slauerhoff (1898-1936) Dutch writer and poet .. 1934. Morocco, Tangier

Two Notable Personages -- Sir James Barrie with Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Universities robes on the occasion of the open buildings at Edinburgh University, which ***** premiere. Sir James Barrie is Chancellor of the University. April 04, 1932.

12/31/1929. Two Distinguished Writers of the Generation of 98: Azorín and Pío Baroja.

Howard Ashton. October 3, 1939.

Felix Faure, 1841-1899, 7th President of France, woodcut circa 1871

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

Vatican Personalities : Monsignor Domenico Tardini -- Pro-Secretary of State for Extraordinary Affairs at the Vatican. January 5, 1955. (Photo by Camera Press).

William Jennings Bryan, during 1908 Democratic National Convention. Cabinet card, 1908

Ignacy Jan Paderewski reading the screenplay for The Old Nest`, in the company of Rupert Hughes - author of the screenplay, and Reginald Barker - director, during his first visit at the Goldwyn Pictures studio in Culver City, California. unknown, photographer

Home From HealthTheodore Dreiser in his apartment in a New York Hotel after his return from a trip through the Kentucky Coal Fields.He told reporters that conditions there were ***** for the miners. He said they were ***** some of them were making *****. June 01, 1938. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

Portrait of the GENERAL BARON DE POLKES Portrait of General Baron de Polkès. 1851-1900. Anonymous photography.

ALFONSO XIII. REY DE ESPAÑA. MADRID. 1886 / 1941. " CON SU PRIMER MINISTRO JOSE CANALEJAS , TRAS LA REUNION DEL CONSEJO DE MINISTROS 9/07/1910. FOTOGRAFIA DE I ' ILLUSTRATION.

President McKinley at his desk in the White House, Washington, U.S.A. , Presidents, White House Washington, D.C., McKinley, William, 1843-1901

GEORG WILHELM PABST.

Portrait of the Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) by Ozersky, Mikhail Abramovich (1898-1968)/Moscow Photo Museum (House of Photography)/1930s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

KING VIDOR.

Palmiro togliatti and nilde iotti

Ossip Gabrilowitch i.e. Gabrilowitsch

René Jules Gustave Coty 1882 1962) was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president under the French Fourth Republic.

Ernest Hemingway (21st July 1899- 2nd July 1961) , American writer.

Chlodwig Carl Victor zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst (1819-1901) Chancellor of Germany 1894-1900.

Erich Maria REMARQUE, real surname Remark, 1898-1970, German author of Im Westen Nichts Neues, or All Quiet On The Western Front, 1929, novel describing German trench life in World War One based on personal experience, photographed here with Carl Laemmle, 1908-79, founder of Universal Pictures, where the film version was made in 1930

JOHN GIELGUD in CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981), directed by HUGH HUDSON.

L to R: Sen. Kellogg, Sen. Harry S. New ca. between 1918 and 1920.

Portrait of the theatrical producer and actor Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) by Russian Photographer /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/End 1920s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

JAMES PAYN English novelist and editor in 1890 Date: 1830 - 1898

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, 1875 - 1932. English writer. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934.

Henry Ford (1863-1947), Anonymous

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

Ernest Hemingway at his typewriter age 40.

Inessa Fyodorovna Armand (born Elisabeth-Ines Stephane d'Herbenville; May 8, 1874 - September 24, 1920) was a French-Russian communist politician and member of the Bolsheviks who spent most of her life in Russia.

Black and white photo of Engelbert Dollfuss (1892-1934), Chancellor of Austria until his assassination, after the first attempt on his life in October 1933.

Anefo photo collection. Cabinet Schermerhorn-Drees. Louis Beel, Minister of the Interior. June 24, 1945

Mr. Lloyd George photographed which setting to Sir John Lavery at Church today Nov. 6.***** several days a week. The Famous Welsh statesman has already had portrait painted by Mr. Augustus John and Sir William Orpen. December 16, 1934. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

01/01/1930. An image of Don Gregorio Marañón.

Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes GCB, GBE, PC (26 September 1875 22 June 1937), British businessman and Conservative politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1917 and 1919 and as the first Minister of Transport between 1919 and 1921. Picture here as Chairman of Imperial Airways, a post he held from 1924 until his death in 1937. Date: 1935

David Lloyd George, (17 January 1863 26 March 1945) British Liberal politician and statesman. Seen addressing the Zionist Federation of Great Britain in 1931

Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 - March 15, 1962). American physicist and university professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.

Philippine President Takes Over. With the liberation of the Philippines progressing swiftly, Sergio Osmena, President of the Philippine Commonwealth, has taken over civil administration in the freed areas of the archipelago. By special permission of the President, a Coast Guard combat photographer made this excellent study of Osmena at his desk in the temporary capitol building at Tacloban, Leyte Island, before the government was transferred to Manila.

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885 - 16 March 1919) Bolshevik Party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919. He is sometimes regarded as the first head of state of the Soviet Union, although it was not established until 1922, three years after his death.

Rafael Merry del Val (1865-1930). Spanish cardinal, Secretary of State of the Holy See. Engraving by Sampietro. The Artistic Illustration, 1896.

Leo Szilard (1898 - 1964) Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb

Thomas Hardy, English poet, novelist and dramatist with his second wife, Florence, 1912-1928. Artist: Unknown

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Poster showing President Lluis Companys (1882-1940) in solidarity with the people of Madrid, 1937. Madrilenos, Catalonia loves you.

Adolf Hitler (* 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn) ( 30 April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor from 1933, also self-appointed "Fuehrer" and head of state of Germany

Arenas de San Pedro (Ávila), February 1978. Interview with Marcial Lafuente at his home.

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