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Historical Portrait Photography

Early 20th-century portraits of significant figures, showcasing traditional attire and formal poses, reflecting the fashion of their time.

Portrait of Antoni Gaudí, Deglaire, Pablo Audouard (1856-1919)

Chairman of the Central Executive Committee Mikhail Kalinin, Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)

Portrait of Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman and president. Part of a French amateur album with photos of France, Algeria, Palmyra, the 1900 World Exhibition and of Famous Fransen.

A photograph by Wenzel Weis from 1913 depicting Silverius Frey, showing the subject in formal attire with clear portrait composition and detail.

Ignasi Iglesias Pujadas (1871-1928). Spanish playwright and poet. The Catalan Illustration, 1904.

Georg Winter. Photograph by J. C. Schaarwächter.

Portrait of the architect Edouard Henricus Gerardus Hubertus Cuypers. Portrait of the architect Edouard Henricus Gerardus Hubertus ('ed.') Cuypers (1859-1927).

Polski: Wincenty LisowskiRussian: Vikenty Karlovich Lisovsky, member of the II State Duma from the Podolsk province. ca. 1907

Dr. H. J. Laméris.

Portrait Max Schmiedel, recorded in the photoatelier in Dresden, Ferdinandstraße 11

Peteris Jurashevskis ca. between 1904 and 1917.

Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (April 6; 1833 ñ July 4; 1917) was a Dutch linguist and Orientalist. In the literature; he is usually referred to as H. Kern or Hendrik Kern

Modeste Petrovich Mussorgski (1839-1881). Russian composer.

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). Russian composer. Portrait. Photography.

Engineer Ernst Manfred Starck.

Portrait of Alfred Konar (1862-1840 or 1841), writer. unknown, photographer

Amadeo I of Spain (1845-1890). King of Spain from January 2, 1871 to February 11, 1873. First Duke of Aosta. Portrait. Engraving by J. Furnó. Detail. Historia General de España by Modesto Lafuente. Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1882. Author: Joaquín Furnó i Abad (1832-1918). Spanish engraver.

Edgar Degas, Alphonse Hirsch, 1875 Alphonse Hirsch

Pompeu Gener i Babot (Barcelona, 1848-1920). Polígrafo, colaborador de publicaciones como l'Avenç, l'Esquella de la Torratxa, Joventut).

Carl Weitbrecht, born 8 December 1847, died 10 June 1904, was a German deacon, writer and literary historian, as well as a university lecturer and rector at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

12/31/1899. Portrait of the writer Alejandro Sawa.

Self-portrait of Waldemar Titzenthaler ..

Johann Dietrich Eckart, 1868 - 1923. Anti-Semitic German poet, author and political activist whose work and attitudes heavily influenced Adolf Hitler. After a contemporary photograph by A. Bierl.

Portrait photograph of Silverius Frey captured on silver gelatin paper by Rudolf Koppitz, mounted in a passe-partout around 1930.

Jan Kasprowicz (December 12, 1860 August 1, 1926) polish poet, playwright, critic and translator;

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921). German composer, known for his opera Hansel and Gretel.(1893). Portrait. Photography.

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (1883 - 1936) Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Kamenev was the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky. He served briefly as the equivalent of the first head of state of Soviet Russia in 1917, and from 1923-24 as acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life. Joseph Stalin viewed him as a cause of discontent and opposition to his own leadership. Kamenev was executed on 25 August 1936 after a show trial during the period of the Great Purges.

T.H. Girard

'Henry Houssaye', c1893. Artist: Charles Reutlinger.

O.F. Lenander born 1841 Died 1905 III: E district Malmö District

JOHANN STRAUSS (YOUNGER) Austrian musician Date: 1825 - 1899

Nikolay Savvich Dolgopolov, member of the II State Duma from the Voronezh province. ca. 1907

Sir Percy Barsett-Smith. Photograph.

Portrait of Frans Ekman. Karl Wilhelm Hagelin's friend in ZariVyn 1888-1891.Filden is included in two large photo albums by director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked for a long time at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Paris, Tresse, Parijs, Braun, Adolphe, M. Got, Portrait of François Jules Edmond Got, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 93 mm, width 55 mm, French, German, 1812 - 1877, photographer, 1868 - 1878, paper, Woodburytype, maker, manufacturer

Earl of Morley. Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville (Scottish,1835 - 1906)

Portrait Carl Hüllweck (1852-1912; Violoncellist)

Swedish author August Strindberg.; Date: 1890.

Portrait of Fritz Hoffmann Fritz Hoffmann (1873-), German composer (later character) - photography with autograph; around 1905 (1900-00-00-1910-00-00);Hoffmann, Fritz (1873-), Hoffmann, Fritz (1873-)-iconography, Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915)-collection, autographs, binockets, composers, musicians, glasses, portraits, men's portraits

Pyotr Alexeyevich Alexeev (1849 -1891) was a Russian revolutionary, one of the first factory workers to join the revolutionary underground, whose speech at his trial was distributed in thousands of copies.

Photographic portrait of Georges Bizet (1838-1875) a French composer of the Romantic era. Dated 19th century

Muhammedakram Muhammetzhanovich Biglov ca. 1907.

02/01/1908. Portrait of the master Lamothe Grignon. The latest "debuts" of the Teatro Real.

Engineer Fredrik Mauritz Sundberg.

Joseph Maria Baernreither (12 April 1845) (19 September 1925) was an Austrian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies and the House of Lords of the Vienna Imperial Council, Minister of Trade (1898 and 1907), and Minister without Portfolio in the Clam-Martinic Cabinet from 1916 to 1917, Painting by Franz Seraph von Lenbach, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period

Portrait Reinhold Zehl

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (1875 - 1933) Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for Ministry and Education as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist and journalist throughout his career.

Terenty Osipovich Belousov ca. between 1904 and 1917.

Leo Tolstoy. Yasnaya Polyana, 1862 (Self-Portrait), Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910)

Photograph of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Dated 1900

Photographic portrait of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) a French poet. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French composer. Madrid, Institute of Iberoamerican Cooperation. Spain. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN. JORGE BIZET (1838-1875).

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin. Photograph by Kaufmann/Fabry, 1933, after P. Besson.

'Filippo Turati (1857-1932) in 1919. Founded the Italian Socialist Party in 1892. In 1926 he fled first to Corsica, and then to France to escape Mussolini's Fascist regime.'

Author Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Pavlov, Pyotr Petrovich (1860-1925)

Carl Friedrich von Siemens (September 5, 1872 in Berlin - September 9, 1941 in Heinendorf near Potsdam) was a German Entrepreneur and politician. Carl Friedrich is the youngest son of Werner von Siemens by his second wife and relative Antonie Siemens and nephew of Carl Siemens and William Siemens

Sir Henry Wood, English conductor, 1912. Artist: Joseph Simpson

Photographic portrait of Max Weber (1864-1920) a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist. Dated 20th Century

Portrait Hugo Wünschmann (1859-1908; Hornist)

Moses Nikitich Vovchinsky ca. between 1904 and 1917.

Abai Kunanbayev (1845 - 1904), Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam. His name is also transliterated as Abay Kunanbayev (Abay Kunanbayev); among Kazakhs he is known as Abai.

Friedrich Nietzsche in 1887.

Eduardo Torrents Boque (1862-). Musico y compositor catalán. Grabado de 1889.

Portrait of Emile Zola. .

Professor William Edward Ayrton (1847-1908), British physicist and electrical engineer, 1893.Artist: W&D Downey

Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Russian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Commissar for Foreign Affairs from March 1918 to January 1925, Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs

CLAUDE DEBUSSY French composer. Date: 1862 - 1918

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (1883 25 August 1936), a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician

Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959), Anonymous

Josep García Oliver, fundador de la Caixa d'estalvis Laietana, Siglo XIX. Author: JORDI ARENAS.

King Edward VII (1841-1910) toward the end of his life, pictured with his faithful terrier 'Caesar'. Date: circa 1910

Jesse James, American train- robber and bandit; eventually killed in 1882 after being betrayed by a member of his own gang Date: 1882

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). French poet, novelist, playwright and writer of short stories. 1885

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Austrian neurologist, known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

Roger Casement, a British government official, uncovered early 20th century human rights abuses by rubber harvesting industry in the Belgian Congo and Peru by rubber harvesting industry. He was knighted by the British Crown in 1911 for his investigations. He left British government service in 1913 as a fully committed Irish nationalist. He schemes and negotiations with Germany during WWI, resulting in his execution for treason on August 16, 1916 (BSLOC_2020_2_157)

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) 1879 21 August 1940) Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

Joseph Joachim Raff, 1822 - 1882, a German composer and music teacher of Swiss origin, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Portrait of painter Ludomir Benedyktowicz (1844-1926). Jabłoński, Tadeusz (fl. 1896-1914), photographer

Joseph Maurice Ravel, 1875 - 1937, French composer, pianist and conductor, leading musician in Impressionism, digitally edited

Vasily Vasilyevich Luzhsky ca. 1903.

Czech Republic, Prague, Portrait of Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak

James Ludovic Lindsay. 1847-1913. 26. Earl of Crawford, 9. Earl of Balcarres. Astronom, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated

Roger Casement (1864 ñ 1916 Anglo-Irish diplomat for the United Kingdom; Irish nationalist; executed for treason.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. Charles Roux , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Charles Roux). shipwrecked image, portrait, man, Human being, Mr scratched 10, 2 1918 France, boulogne, portraits, mr Charles Roux

Krisjanis Smith (1847-1885). Latvian lawyer. Portrait by J. S. Roze, 1878. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia.

Alexander Grigoryevich Stoletov (1839 - 1896) was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering.

A silver gelatin photograph showing Franz Kapfer, photography teacher at GLV from 1906 to 1948, captured by Rudolf Koppitz around 1925, depicting portraiture and professional attire.

Portrait of Sultan Abdülaziz. Chlebowski, Stanisław (1835-1884), painter

Alphonse Daudet, 1840-1897 French novelist. From the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, French. Volume 4, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

EMILIO DURKHEIM (1858-1917) SOCIOLOGO FRANCES.

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