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Historical Portraits of Notable Figures

A collection of vintage portraits showcasing men in formal attire, exuding sophistication and historical significance, captured in a monochrome style.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Austrian poet, writer, dramatist. Date: circa 1900s

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Austrian poet, writer, dramatist. Date: circa 1900s

Louis Loucheur

King Manuel

MANUEL JOSE OTHON - 1858/1906 - POETA MEXICANO.

Prince Lichnowsky

Behaeddin Shakir or Bahaeddin Shakir was a founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). At the end of World War I, he was detained with other members of the CUP, first by the local Ottoman court martial and then by the British government. He was then sent to Malta pending military trials for crimes against humanity, which never materialized, and was subsequently exchanged by the British for hostages held by Turkish forces. In the autumn of 1919, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), part of the Armenian national liberation movement, ruled to punish the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. Under Operation Nemesis, Aram Yerganian and Arshavir Shirakian were given the task to assassinate both Cemal Azmi and Bahaeddin Shakir who were in Berlin. On April 17, 1922, Shirakian and Yerganian encountered Azmi and Sakir who were walking with their families at the Uhlandstrasse street. Shirakian managed to kill only Azmi and wound Shakir. Yerganian immediately ran after S

Zbysko

Mr. Chuard, president of the Swiss confederation, elected for 1924 -.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Classic Photography

Monsieur Clemenceau (Deceased)Premier of France during first World War 1914-18. December 20, 1943.

Portillo

A. Briand

LEOPOLDO LUGONES - 1874/1938 - ESCRITOR ARGENTINO.

12/13/1908. The success of the Magazine "Abc" in Zarzuela. In the photo, Rafael Reynot, theater entrepreneur.

12/31/1929. Portrait of the painter Julio Romero de Torres.

Eduard Benes (1884-1948) Czechoslovak statesman; President of Czechoslovakia 1935-1938, 1941-1945 (in exile), 1946-1948 when he resigned after a Communist coup. Halftone.

'Guillaume', c1893. Artist: Pierre Petit.

Dr. Roque Saenz Pena

Joseph O'Brien

12/31/1905. Portrait of Don Féliz Azzati, director of the republican newspaper El Pueblo of Valencia.

Frank Tucker

Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC (6 November 1870 ñ 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931-35. He was the first nominally practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party

Daniel Frohman

Chaim Azriel Weizmann (1874 1952) Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel

Narazo Shimasu

06/30/1910. Deputy Mr. Alejandro Lerroux giving his speech these days in Congress.

E. De La Garza Jr.

Vladimir Lenin in the Kremlin. October 1918, Anonymous

Vintage Archive Photo Portrait of Max Dvorak, Czecho-Austrian art historian, circa 1910s

Giovanni verga

M Nicolai Larin, the soul of Bolshevism and first Soviet Premier

Chaim Weizmann (1874 1952). Zionist leader and Israeli statesman. first President of Israel. 1949 until his death in 1952.

Bathhouse John Coughlin, as president of the First Ward Democratic Club, prior to his election to the Chicago common council. John Joseph Coughlin, 1860 - 1938, known as "Bathhouse John" or "the Bath

Reproduction to a photo of Willem Witsen. .

Patriotic, but pessimistic: Mr. Rudyard Kipling, whose poem, "The City Of Brass", has annoyed Mr. Winston Churchill, 1909. Mr. Rudyard Kipling's latest poem, "The City of Brass,'' has not met with the approbation of the President of the Board of Trade. In his recent speech at the City Liberal Club, Mr. Winston Churchill, defending the Budget, which be likened to Aaron's serpent as having involved all other issues, said: "A constitutional issue overshadows all the other issues of the Budget - whether the House of Commons, elected by millions of people, is or is not to contin

Briand, Aristide (French foreign minister)

Gogorza

'Maeterlinck', c1893. Artist: Aaron Gerschel.

Count Bernstorff

Portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Gaston Doumergue (1863-1937). French statesman and first Protestant president of the French Republic (1924-31).

Marshal Foch. May 6, 1929.

'Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik leader, in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, October', 1918. Artist: Unknown.

Casellas Dou, Raimundo (Barcelona, 1855-Sant Joan de les Abadesses, 1910). Crítico de arte, narrador modernista y periodista. Autor de Els sots feréstecs (1901), obra considerada la primera novela modernista.

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) English composer

1930 (CA.). Portrait of Anatoly Lunacharsky.

Hofrat Josef Thenen. Photograph.

Historical print from the 19th century, portrait of Paul Charles Joseph Bourget, 1852 - 1935, a French writer

Anefo photo collection. Lenin (head). August 21, 1973

WILHELM II GERMAN ROYALTY German Emperor in 1902 Date: 1859 - 1941

Inazo Nitobe.

Photographic portrait of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879-1952), the British politician and businessman. Date: 1910

Mathias Erzberger

Portrait of an annoyed man (OV2019_577)

Photographic portrait of Pancho Villa (1878-1923) Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. Dated 1908

Heinrich Albert Schnee, 4 February 1871 - 23 June 1949, a German jurist, colonial civil servant, politician, writer and association official, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an early 20th century original, exact original date unknown

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philospher and writer. Artist: Unknown

Laxmidas Karamchand Gandhi, (1860-1914). younger brother of Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement.

Portrait of the Author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), Nappelbaum, Moisei Solomonovich (1869-1958)

Anefo photo collection. Family fotos Norwegian royal family. August 6, 1954

12/31/1909. Portrait of Álvaro Figueroa Torres, Count of Romanones.

Professor Hans Spemann, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934.

12/31/1929. An image of Adolf Hitler.

Enric Prat de la Riba i Sarrà (Castellterçol, 1870-1917). Político. Presidente de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya.

Vladimir Lenin. Zurich, 1917 by Anonymous /State Museum of History, Moscow/1917/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

The President of the government of Albania, Essad Pasha (1863-1920), photographed on a visit to London during the First World War. Pasha ruled Albania only briefly until 1916 and was assasinated in exile in 1920. Date: 1916

Prince Paul Zbawca Riedelski

12/31/1909. Manuel Portela Valladares.

05/22/1913. Crime Captain Sánchez-Mr García Jalón. Portrait of Manuel Sánchez López, Captain Sánchez, author of the murder of Mr. García Jalón.

Adolf Hitler relaxing at Berchtesgaden, Bavarian Alps, Germany, c1933-1945. Berchtesgaden was Hitler's favourite retreat in Berghof, which he acquired in 1933. The photographer is unknown.

ANDRE MESSAGER (1853-1929) - DIRECTOR DE ORQUESTA FRANCES - FOTOGRAFIA DE 1890. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Robert Sterl

Alfred Capus, French journalist and playwright, 1915. Artist: Unknown

Photographic portrait of Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. Dated 20th century

Witherspoon

06/30/1917. New Mayor. Mr. Ricardo Franco Pineda, who has been appointed mayor of Seville.

Thomas Hardy 1840-1928, English novelist and poet who was born in Dorset and spent most of his life there. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery London, 1890-1894. WoodburyTypy after a photography of W&D Downey., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Rev. L.W. Batten

'Superman': Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 19th century (1956). Artist: Unknown

Vladimir Lenin portrait, 1917, Russia, Europe

Vladimir Lenin. Moscow. April 23, 1920. Photo by L. Leonidov.

Wilhelm Friedrich (Fritz) Ferdinand Olof von Lindequist, 15 spongia officinalis (1862) to 15 June 1945, was a colonial official of the German Empire, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an early 20th century original, exact original date unknown

Sir Thos. J. Horder

Salvaro Obregon Salido (1880-1928) Mexican general and politician, President of Mexico 1920-1924. Obregon won the 1928 Presidential election but was shot dead on 17 July 1928 by Jose de Leon Toral, a Roman Catholic who opposed to the Mexican governments religious policies. Photograph.

Dr. Paul Ritter

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12/31/1899. Portrait of the first president of Barcelona, Joan Gamper.

Photograph of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) a Russian communist revolutionary politician, political theorist, and head of the government of the Russian Republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union. Dated 20th Century

George Grantham Bain ca. 1910-1915.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Anonymous

Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary, c1917

ISAAC ALBENIZ 1860-1909 MUSICO. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Portrait of Suzuki Kantaro - an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, member and final leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April to 17 August 1945

Lars Tjerneld, Wästra Hästbo Lars Tjerneld, Wästra Hästbo

Joseph Stalin.

Valery Semyonovich Krotkov - essayist ca. 1890.

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1875 - 1946), Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist-Leninist functionary. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN British Prime Minister in 1939 Date: 1869 - 1940

Leopoldo Cano Massas (1844-1934), militar, poeta y escritor español.

Marquis Inouye. Photograph shows Katsunosuke Inoue (1861-1929), a Japanese diplomat and businessman. Photograph probably taken at the time when Inoue was replaced as Japanese ambassador to Britain and travelled back to Japan through the United States.

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