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Historical Portraits from the Early 20th Century

A collection of early 20th-century portraits featuring men in formal attire, displaying thoughtful or relaxed poses, with a vintage monochrome aesthetic.

Charles Robert Spencer, sixth Earl Spencer (1857 - 1922), before that Viscount Althorp until he succeeded to the title in 1910, British courtier and Liberal politician. He was Lord Chamberlain from 1905 to 1912 in the Liberal administrations headed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith. He was great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales and consequently, great-great grandfather of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry. Date: 1913
Charles Robert Spencer, sixth Earl Spencer (1857 - 1922), before that Viscount Althorp until he succeeded to the title in 1910, British courtier and Liberal politician. He was Lord Chamberlain from 1905 to 1912 in the Liberal administrations headed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith. He was great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales and consequently, great-great grandfather of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry. Date: 1913
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GIACOMO PUCCINI Italian musician at the time of 'Madama Butterfly' Date: 1858 - 1924L.M. Kaganovich - head of the Saratov military organization of the Bolsheviks. Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (1893 - 1991) was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He is known for helping Stalin seize power, for his role in organizing, planning and supervising the forced collectivization policiesValerian Obolensky (Nikolai Osinsky), Raold Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen (1872-1928) Norwegian explorer. First to navigate the Northwest Passage (1918). Reached South Pole in December 1911, one month before Scott.Conrad von Borsig - industrialist. State state view Hamburg, collection of photography history, 1972Arnold Bennett. March 19, 1930. (Photo by Sports & General Press Agency Limited)ENRIQUE LABARTA (1863-1925) - PERIODISTA SATIRICO.Track engineer and traffic manager assistant Lars Viktor Ståhle.Cecil John Rhodes, 1853 bis 1902. In England geborener Bergbaumagnat und Politiker in Südafrika. Aus dem Buch South Africa and the Transvaal War, Band 1 von Louis Creswicke, erschienen 1900., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not statedPortrait of Ludwig Schrauff (1851-1921, singer). Photography (Cabinet with autograph) by Atelier Teich-Hemfstaengl. Dresden, around 1887. Dresden: Slub / DF 1999.e.1Berenice Abbott, Portrait of François Mauriac , 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.ANDREW BONAR LAW Statesman, prime Minister Date: 1858 - 1923El escritor H.G. Wells.Arthur James Balfour, lst Earl Balfour (1848-1930) Scottish-born British Conservative statesman and philosopher. Prime Minister 1902-1905. Balfour Declaration 1917. From a photograph published London c1890.Photographic portrait of Lluís Millet (1867-1941) a Spanish Catalan composer, musician and co-founder of Orfeó Català. Dated 20th CenturyMESA ROSALES, Enrique de (Madrid,1878-Madrid, 1929). Escritor español. Cultivó el periodismo, la crítica teatral y la prosa de tipo poético impresionista. Lo mejor de su obra se encuentra recogido en "Cancionero Castellano" (1911) .Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963), an American actor of both silent films and talkies. Dated 20th Century11/30/1923. Vicente Witos, head of the Polish agrarian party and resigned president of the Council of Ministers of his Country -.ERNEST PSICHARI - French novelist of religious leanings, planned to be a monk but World War One came and he was killed in Belgium in the early days. Photo in 1913. Date: 1883 - 1914Lazar Osipovich Karmen (real name Koriman); journalist and prose writer ca. 1905Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660495Manuel Ugarte12/31/1919. Portrait of Jacinto Benavente with goatee.Christopher Weguelin.Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. This English novelist is best known for his romantic adventure King Solomons Mines, published in 1885. He was also a practical farmer and was part of the literary reaction against domestic realism that has been called a romance revival.Sir Marc Armand Ruffer. Photograph.MATA Y DOMINGUEZ , PEDRO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL.1875-1946.William Faulkner, American southern novelist from Oxford, Mississippi, in the 1940s. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature (BSLOC_2020_2_51)Rómul Bosch Alsina (1852-1923), político y naviero, alcalde de Barcelona en 1905.12/31/1914. The celestino maestro Roig, author of the score of "New Year's Eve".Engraved portrait of John Brown (1826-1883), Queen Victoria's personal attendant at Balmoral for 34 years, pictured in his Highland garb. Date: c.188007/31/1916. The French aviator Marchal, who made a flight of 1410 kilometers, passing over Berlin, and was taken prisoner by the Germans in Poland.Photographic portrait of Henri Collet (1885-1951) a French composer and music critic. Dated 20th CenturyMyron Herrick.Photograph of Benito Ailcare Andrea Mussolini (1883-1945) Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. Dated 1922LOUIS CALHERN.Photographic portrait of Léon Blum (1872-1950) a French politician, identified with the moderate left, and three times Prime Minister of France. Dated 20th CenturyPortrait of Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) an Italian opera composer and librettist. Dated 20th Century09/01/1913. The notable journalist D. Antonio Corton, who died in Madrid.CHUECA, FEDERICO COMPOSITOR ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1846-1908.Manuel Acuna Narro (1849-1873). Mexican writer. Engraving by E. Vilardell. Colored.Sir Max Pemberton, 1874-1950, English writer, From the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, The War, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedLouis B. Rowe; Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853 - 1943); about 1895 - 1900; Platinum print; 21 x 14.4 cm (8 1,4 x 5 11,16 in.)01/01/1944. Don Álvaro Figueroa, Count of Romanones.Fred. LaCroixPhotograph of Benito Ailcare Andrea Mussolini (1883-1945) Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. Dated 1922Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956) French composer Porträt von Aleksander Rajchman (geboren am 13. November 1890, gestorben wahrscheinlich am 7. August 1940) war ein polnischer Mathematiker, Gemälde von Stanislaw Lentz, (1861-1920), Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.El músico Frank Marshall de joven.12/31/1899. Portrait of the writer Marcel Proust.Photographic portrait of Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), the Scottish novelist and dramatist, pictured in 1924. Date: 22/11/1924HERBERT GEORGE WELLS writer, historianALBERT EINSTEIN FISICO ALEMAN. 1878 - 1955.Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Date: 1913Leon Trotzky or Lev Davidovich Bronstein (1879 - 1940) Russian Communist leader in the year he became the People's Commissar for War Date: 1918KreislerJOSE MARIA RODRIGUEZ ACOSTA. PINTOR ESPAÑOL 1878-1941. RETRATO POR JOSE MARIA LOPEZ MEZQUITA.CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES PATRIOTA CUBANO.1819 - 1874 LIDER INDEPENDENTISTA CUBANO , SE LEVANTO EN ARMAS CONTRA EL GOBIERNO ESPAÑOL EN 1868 EMPEZANDO LA GUERRA DE LOS DIEZ AÑOS 1868 - 1878.Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888 15 March 1938) Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and prolific author on revolutionary theory.Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, pseudonym 'Q', 1863-1944, English author, writer, illustration from the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedDr. Paul Bartsch circa 1905-1945.Emiliano Zapata Salazar (1879-1919). Mexican revolutionary. Portrait. Photographic reproduction. Colored.Portrait of English musician Frank Bridge (1879-1945). Date: 1923COMPANYS, LLUIS POLITICO ESPAÑOL. TARROS 1882-1940 PRESIDENTE DE LA GENERALITAT DE 1933-34 Y DE 1936-39 FOTO AÑO 1937.Giacomo Puccini, 1858 -1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Attilio Badodi, 1924Herman Cyril McNeile, aka'SAPPER', 1888-1937. British novelist. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, The War""Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), British writer, photograph by Federico Hollyer, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 44, November 4, 1906.Last of the old Australian bush poets, Roderick Quinn, died last night, aged 79.Rod Quinn was a close friend of Henry Lawson until Lawson's death in 1922.Lawson and Quinn were in the habit of meeting under the lights in Hyde Park and comparing their verse.Quinn in his younger days was a clerk, a schoolteacher, and later a journalist.His most treasured possession since 1922 was Henry Lawson's cherrywood pipe, which occupied a place pride in his home. A weeek ago he entered the Hospice for the Dying, Darlinghurst.He died peacefully in his sleep. May 04, 1937.GABRIEL FAURE (1845-1924) - COMPOSITOR Y ORGANISTA FRANCES. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.Herbert George Wells (1865-1946) British novelist, writer and popular historian. HG Wells c1925.Georges Bernanos (1888 1948); French author of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings who was he was critical of bourgeois thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He thought this led to France's eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II.Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1. Baronet, 1853 bis 1917, auch bekannt als Doctor Jim, The Doctor oder Lanner. Britischer Kolonialpolitiker und Premierminister der Kapkolonie. Aus dem Buch South Africa and the Transvaal War, Band 1 von Louis Creswicke, erschienen 1900., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not statedWashington, D.C.: May, 1924 A portrait of diplomat Joseph Clark Grew.Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen, Norwegian explorer. Amundsen (1872-1928) led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving at the Pole in December 1911, one month before the ill-fated British expedition commanded by Captain Scott. In 1918 he became the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, discovering in the process that the route could never be navigable for large vessels. In 1928 he was killed in the Arctic in a plane crash while searching for the missing Italian aeronaut Umberto Nobile. (Colorised black and white print).Portrait of Lovis Corinth (July 21, 1858 as Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth - July 17, 1925) was a German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist, digitally restored reproduction of a public domain photo by Hugo Erfurth.Dr Charles Murray LLD, Sarah Murray (Scotland, active 1880 - 1908) 1887Portrait of the composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Nadar, Gaspard-Félix (1820-1910)Historic photograph, old man with a moustache, around 1919Portrait of the composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) by Nadar, Felix (1820-1910)/Private Collection/1909/Photograph/France/PortraitMadrid, 1920 (Ca.). The writer and journalist Luis Antón del Olmet, who collaborated for many years in Blanco y Negro and ABC and was murdered by his collaborator Alfonso Vidal y Planas.James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish playwright and novelist. 'Peter Pan', 'The Admirable Crichton', 'Quality Street' among his best known works. Photograph published London c1890Giacomo puccini. 1858-1924. ALBERT EINSTEIN scientist Date: 1879 - 1955Reverend Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), 1890.Artist: W&D DowneyMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 - October 4, 1947) was a German physicist in the field of theoretical physics. He is considered the founder of quantum physics, digitally restored reproduction of a public domain photo by Hugo Erfurth..03/25/1908. Crime of Jealousy. In the Cuatro Caminos neighborhood. The Criminal, José Moreno Moreno.Joseph Stalin, portrait at about age 33 in 1913. Serafín (1871-1938) y Joaquín (1873-1944) Alvarez Quintero. Comediógrafos andaluces. Año 1899.Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941)10/31/1911. The deputy Mr. Félix Azzati, author of the complaint of the Alleged Martyrdoms of the Cullera Prisoners.Mariano de Cavia (1855-1920). Spanish writer and journalist. Engraving. Colored.The will give the financial dictation to Germany.Left: Philippe Berthelot. Right: Flandin, Minister of Finance two prominent persons of France who will do the dictation to give Germany Financial foundation. September 22, 1931. (Photo by Atlantic Photo-Gesellschaft).Marcel Cachin (20 September 1869 - 12 February 1958) was a French Communist politician and the first editor of the daily newspaper L'Humanite. In 1891, Cachin won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914. He rallied the Union sacree during the First World War and was sent to Russia in a mission in 1917. In 1920 at the Tours Congress, Cachin became one of the founders of the French Communist Party (SFIC) and joined the Third International.Robert Smythe Hichens, 1864-1950, English writer, illustration from the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedHugo von Hofmannsthal, 1874-1929, Austrian novelist and poet, digital edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm WillingerOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885 - 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.Yaakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885 16 March 1919) was a Bolshevik party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee