Historical Figures Portraits

Black and white portraits of notable historical individuals from the 20th century, depicting serious expressions and formal attire.

Portrait of the People's Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture and education Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875-1933) by Russian Photographer /Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/Early 1930s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Melchor Rodríguez García (also known as El Ángel Rojo - Red Angel); (1893 - 1972), was a Spanish politician and statesman, a notable anarcho-syndicalist, and the head of prison authorities in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War

Sir Thomas Beecham, the world-renowned English conductor has been engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to visit here next year.He is expected to arrive in June and will remain for three months to conduct fifteen concerts throughout the Commonwealth. November 01, 1939. (Photo by Col. Bays).

11/19/1975. Carlos Arias from Navarre Gives the Spaniards the News of Franco's Death.

Portrait of Han van der Kop.

Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (May 21, 1895 - October 19, 1970) was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940

Luigi de Gaetano. Photograph, 1931.

¡ngel PestaÒa NuÒez (1886 ñ December 11, 1937) Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist and later Syndicalist leader.

A photograph of Richard Hildebrandt. Richard Hermann Hildebrandt (1897-1952) a German politician in Nazi Germany, member of the Reichstag, and a high-ranking Schutzstaffel commander.

Portrait of Han van der Kop, Velox Photo, 1933 photograph Maastricht paper gelatin silver print historical persons

Portrait of the People's Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture and education Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875-1933) by Russian Photographer /Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/Early 1930s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Portrait of Onésimo Redondo (1905-1936) a Spanish Falangist politician and founder of the Castilian Groups of Hispanic Action. Dated 20th Century

douard Daladier (1884 ñ 1970) was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.

Photograph of Gueorgui Dimitrov (1882 - 1949). One of the CC members elected to the eighteenth congress of PS DOB. Dated 1909

Niceto Alcal·-Zamora y Torres (1877 ñ 1949) Spanish politician and first prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic. Subsequently President 1931-1936

Don José de Yanguas y Messía, (1890 - 1974) Spanish noble, politician and diplomat. Ambassador to the Holy See during that of General Francisco Franco. A fervent monarchist, he conspired against the Spanish Second Republic. In the Spanish civil war, He joined the Uprising of 1936 and drew up the Junta's decree of 29 September 1936 that proclaimed Franco Chief of the government of the Spanish State

Pyotr Fadeevich Lomako (1904 - 1990) Soviet statesman, people 's commissar and minister. From 1940 to 1948, People's Commissar, Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR. During the Great patriotic war, he led the evacuation of enterprises to the Urals , the organization of production there, and after the war - the restoration of the destroyed economy

Revolución rusa (1917-1923). Iossif Stalin (1879-1953), primer secretario general del Partido comunista de la Unión soviética, en 1919.

Photograph of Pierre-Étienne Flandin (1889-1958) a French Conservative politician of the Third Republic. Dated 20th Century

Spanish civil war: José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones de León (Salamanca, 27 November 1898 Madrid, 13 September 1980) was a prominent Spanish politician in the period leading up to the Spanish Civil War.

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

12/31/1934. Gregorio Marañón Posadillo.

Date: February 26, 1914 - Vanni Marcoux.

Elsevier photo collection. Mr. J.M.A.H. Luns, United Nations United Nations York, candidate post Minister Foreign Affairs. August 27, 1952

John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon; (1873 ñ 1954) British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second. He is one of only three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer,

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890 - 1986) Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protege of Joseph Stalin. Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.

Harry Pollitt (1890 - 1960) was a British politician who served as the head of the trade union department of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the General Secretary of the party.

Danzig Crisis. Photo shows - M. Chodacki, The polish high Commissioner in the free city. August 01, 1939. (Photo by Universal Pictorial Press & Agency)

Photographic portrait of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) a French composer and pianist. Dated 20th century

Portrait of Ernst Fischel, Jacob Merkelbach, 1920 - 1930 photograph Portrait of Ernst Fischel of the photo wholesaler. Amsterdam paper historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)

Anton van der Walls (1912-1950) was, according to some experts the worst Dutch traitor during the war. He worked as a spy for the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD).

Ian Hay (1876-1952) pen name of Major John Hay Beith, Scottish dramatist and popular novelist. Director of public relations at the War Office 1938-1941. From a series of cards of 'Famous British Authors' (London, 1937).

Leo Frankel (1844 - 1896)Communist revolutionary of Hungarian and Jewish origin.

Leonid Borisovich Krasin (1870 - 1926), Russian engineer, social entrepreneur and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat.

12/31/1939. Portrait of D. Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena.

Black and white photograph of the World of Arts and Letters; French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert (1900-1977)

Madrid, 07/23/1983. Crime of the Marquises of Urquijo. Juan and Miriam de la Sierra, children of the Marquises of Urquijo, during an exclusive interview for ABC, in which they defended themselves against the accusations leveled against them.

Lord Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, was created the 1st Baron Cherwell in 1941. Educated at Blairlodge, Darmstadt, Berlin University and Paris, he served in the 1914-18 war.***** Experimental philosophy, Oxford, fellow of Wadham college since 1919, he became Director of the ***** R.A.F. at Farnborough and was ***** to the Prime Minister in 1940. February 01, 1945.

Photographic portrait of Emilio Barrera (1869-1943) a Spanish Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff and member of the National Consultative Assembly. Dated 20th Century

Giulio Raffaele. Photograph.

Alexander Welitsch (1906-1991), seudónimo de Alexander Asgaruh (1906-1991), barítono macedonio.

André Chamson (1900-1983), escritor francés.

Portrait of Paul Wegener (1874-1948) a German actor, writer and film director. Dated 20th Century

FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONTE HACIA 1923.

Portrait of Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia 1962

Retrato del político español José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones (Salamanca.1898-Madrid, 1980). Político y abogado español. Dibujo de Pantorba de 1935. Author: Bernardino Pantorba.

1949. Portrait of Francisco Franco.

Sapper (Lt-Col Herman Cyril McNeile - 1888-1937) English novelist and short story writer. Creator of Bulldog Drummond, the ex-army adventurer hero of many thrillers. From a series of cards of 'Famous British Authors' (London, 1937).

Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964) Italian politician and leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death.

Pierre Benoit (1886-1962) a French novelist and member of the Académie française. Dated 20th Century

Szaja Kozowski (1910-1943) Polish study composer and chess player.

Herbert Marshall (1890-1966), an English stage, screen and radio actor. Dated 20th Century

Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (May 23, 1905, Alfaraz de Sayago, Zamora October 29, 1936, Aravaca, Madrid) was a Spanish national syndicalist politician, essayist, and journalist.

Richard Boleslawski, Polish film director and actor, 1933. Artist: Unknown

Photograph of Zack J. Farmer. Zack J. Farmer was the general secretary of the Olympic committee for the 1932 Summer Olympic games held in Los Angeles. Dated 20th century.

'W. H. Davies', 1928. Creator: Frank E Slater.

Walter Pagel. Photograph, ca. 1960 ().

Photographic portrait of Ernest Barnes (1874-1953) an English mathematician, scientist, liberal theologian and bishop. Dated 20th Century

FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONTE HACIA 1923.

C. G. De Garis. July 16, 1951.

ANTONIO MACHADO (1875-1939). Poeta español perteneciente a la 'Generación del 98'. S. XIX-XX (S. XIX-S. XX). Retrato realizado por el pintor Rafael Peñuelas.

John Steinbeck, American author won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among the 18 films based on his works are: OF MICE AND MEN, 1939 & 1992; THE GRAPES OF WRATH, 1940; LIFEBOAT, 1944; and EAST OF EDEN, 1955 (BSLOC_2018_4_34)

Julius Knight Date: 1906

Arturo Alessandri (1868-1950) on 50 Escudos 1964 Banknote from Chile. Chilean politician who served twice as the President of Chile.

HIDALGO DE CISNEROS Y LOPEZ DE MONTENEGRO, Ignacio (1894-1966). Spanish aviator and communist politician. Portrait by Josep Renau. Drawing. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Archivo HistÑrico Nacional.

Photographic portrait of Josef Suk (1874-1935) a Czech composer and violinist. Dated 20th Century

Photograph of Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

Lluís Companys i Jover (El Tarròs, 1882-Barcelona, 1940). Presidente de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Dibujo de Josep Cebriá realizado el 1978.

Portrait of Plutarco Elías Calles (1877-1945) a Mexican general and politician. Dated 20th Century

'Georgi Mikhaylov Dimitrov, also known as Georgi Dimitrov Michaylov (1882-1949) Bulgarian Communist leader: Secretary General of the Communist International.'

Grigory Zinoviev (1883 - 1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. Zinoviev was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution. Head of the Communist International and the architect of several failed attempts to transform Germany into a communist country during the early 1920s. He was in competition against Joseph Stalin, who eliminated him from the Soviet political leadership in 1925, followed by removal from the Petrograd Soviet in 1926. He was a defendant in a 1936 show trial, which resulted in his execution the day after his conviction in August 1936.

03/01/1913. The bullfighter Eduardo Arechavaleta (Chavacha) died on the 14th as a result of the injury he suffered in Barcelona, on Sunday.

Ivan Mikhailovich Kasatkin; prose writer and poet. ca. circa 1910.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderon de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences

12/31/1962. Don José García grandson.

Dr. Ruxton - English murderers. September 13, 1954. (Photo by The "Topical" Press Agency Ltd.).

Hans Luther (10 March 1879 ñ 11 May 1962) was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany for 482 days in 1925 to 1926.

MARCEL.LI DOMINGO, (Tarragona, 25 d'abril de 1884 - Tolosa, 2 de març de 1939) político español y escritor catalán. MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE BARCELONA.

Bela BARTOK, 1881-1945 Hungarian composer, last photograph before his death

Black and white photo of Hermann Goering (1893-1946), Commissioner of Prussia.

IVAR KREUGER Swedish industrialist, financier and swindler; known as the 'Swedish Match King' Date: 1880 - 1932

SANCHEZ DE ALBORNOZ , CLAUDIO. HISTORIADOR ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1893 - 1984. OLEO DE ANTONIO MARTINEZ ANAYA. RECTORADO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE . MADRID. Author: ANTONIO MARTINEZ ANAYA (S. XX).

Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician, c1920s-c1930s. Artist: Unknown

Photograph of Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893-1970) and later Prince Félix of Luxembourg. Dated 20th Century

Photograph Miguel Alem·n ValdÈs (1900 ñ 1983) President of Mexico. Dated 1946

ENRIQUE LARRETA - 1875/1961 - ESCRITOR ARGENTINO. Author: JOSE MARIA LOPEZ MEZQUITA (1883-1954). Location: HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA. NEW YORK.

Mrs. Gladys Changelian's nephew, Levon Yergation ,. Leon Abdalian Collection

Portrait of Lazaro Cardenas del Rio (1895-1970), Mexican military leader and politician, President of Mexico 1934-1940. Mexico,20th century.

General Charles Gaulle - President - France. February 13, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)

Retrato de Jordi Elies, critico y escritor circense.

Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 1st Marquis of Queipo de Llano (February 5, 1875 March 9, 1951) was a Spanish military leader who rose to prominence during Francisco Franco's coup d'état and the subsequent Spanish Civil War.

Miguel Hernández Gilabert (1910-1942), poeta y dramaturgo español, perteneciente a la generación del 27.

Carlo Gambino (1902 - 1976) Italian-American crime boss of the Gambino crime family. After the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia until his death from a heart attack on October 15, 1976.

The Maharaja of Cooch Behar -- Severely injured in the head in a car crash near Baldock, Herts, on July 16. The Maharaja of Cooch Behar was returning to London from Newmarket with a friend when his car came into collision with a van and overturned. He was taken to the Lister Hospital, Hitchin, where he was stated to be very ill, but improving. Miss Marten, who was with him, received leg injuries. July 25, 1953.

Photograph of Santiago Alba y Bonifaz (1872-1949) a Spanish politician and lawyer.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953); Soviet politician, and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin

Photographic portrait of Frits Zernike (1888-1966) Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. Dated 20th Century

FOTOGRAFIA DE JOSEPH ALOIS SCHUMPETER (1883/1950).

Sergei Ivanovich Gusev (1874 - 10 June 1933); Russian revolutionary, a founding member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), and Soviet party leader

Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, 1930, (1933). 'H.H. Prince The Aga Khan, the leader of all the Moslems in India and one of the most progressive rulers in the world, has endeared himself to the hearts of millions of followers of the turf'. The Aga Khan III (1877-1957) was a keen racehorse owner. From "The Pageant of the Century". Odhams Press Ltd, 1933

Retrato de Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903-1936) Anónimo. Colección particular, Madrid.

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