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Historical Portraits of Notable Figures

Black and white portraits featuring men in formal clothing, exuding a vintage aesthetic. Each subject presents a classic style indicative of their era.

BUSINESS: John D Rockefeller, antique print 1907

Andre Citroen (1878-1935), French automobile manufacturer, sometimes called the Henry Ford of France.

E.H. Harriman, seated in chair

John H. Fahey

Washington Bowie Jr

M. Sieveking

Pres. Madero

Frederick L. Hoffmann. Photograph by Rockwood, 1892.

Ernest Rutherford

09/30/1913. M. Galli, former mayor of Paris, who accompanies M. Poincare.

United States Senator from Kansas Joseph L. Bristow (in office 1909-1915).

Sir Alfred Pearce Gould. Photogravure after Elliott & Fry.

Bret HARTE, 1836-1902, American author and poet

Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz (February 2, 1881 August 12, 1939) was elected provisional president of Mexico during the Aguascalientes Convention and led the country for a few months between November 6, 1914, and January 16, 1915.

Composer Jean Sibelius, 1913

Ernest Siegfried

Stins Alexander E Ståhlberg.

Reich Minister of Culture Dr. Bernhard Rust - portrait. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Sir William Osler. Photograph by Elliott & Fry, ca. 1910.

Marmaduke Pickthall, English novelist, journalist and Islamic scholar. A convert from Christianity to Islam, he translated the Qur'an into English Date: 1919

James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), British Prime Minister, 1926. Artist: Unknown

W. Nelson Cromwell

Barcroft Boake: Tragic balladist.Boake was only 26 when he suicided. His best-known verse dealt with death. January 5, 1952.

Portrait of Andrew Bonar Law, the Scottish Statesman, Unionist MP and Prime Minister, made in 1923. Date: 1923

Wayne Bidwell Wheeler (1869-1927) American attorney and prohibitionist. Member of the Anti-Saloon League.

Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, counsel for Anti-Saloon League, c. 1920. He successfully led the 20 year political fight of the Anti-Saloon League, to establish Prohibition with ratification of the 18th Amendment in Jan. 16, 1919 (BSLOC_2018_2_117)

Sir Oliver Lodge

S.S. McClure

LEONARD BORWICK Musician. Date: 1868 - 1925

E.F. Dunne

Sam Sharpe

Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas. Photograph by H.J. Whitlock & Sons.

Machine director Samuel Betts.

E.F. i.e., A. Sperry

Theodore D. Roosevelt, 1858 to 1919. 26th President of the United States.

Lord Glamis - Eldest Brother Of The New Queen -- Lord Glamis, eldest son and heir of The Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and brother of H.M. Queen Elizabeth.He married in 1908, Lady Dorothy Beatrix Osborne, daughter of the 10th Duke of Leeds.Their family of four - two sons and two daughters - are now grown up. May 3, 1937.

Com. Seaton Schroeder, portrait bust

Fred'k H. Gillett

Dr. W.T. Bull, portrait bust.

Justice O.W. Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Anonymous /The Russian State Library, Moscow/Photograph/England/Portrait

Photograph of Orville Wright (1871-1948) an American inventor and aviation pioneer. Dated 20th Century

Chief Director Knut Johan Ulfson Sparre.

Geo. D. Chamberlain, Springfield, Mass.

F.X. Arens

Campbell, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer.

Thomas Rutherford Ronaldson. Photograph by Drummond Young & Watson.

UK: Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1937-1940

Architect Folke Zettervall.

Thomas Andrew

Edwin Bailey, Jr..

DH (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist and poet .

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (1863 - 1945) Welsh statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. He was the last Liberal to hold the post of prime minister and held the office through the last two years of the First World War, leading the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

United States: c. 1920 A portrait of business leader and theorist Roger W. Babson.

Viscount Conham - New M.C.C. President:New Studio Portrait of, Viscount Cobham, The Former Worcestershire Cricketer and Present President of the Worcestershire Country Cricket Club, who was Recently Nominated as the new President of the M.C.C. July 05, 1935.

Edwin Bailey, Jr.

'Louis Charles Bleriot (1872-1936) French aviator, engineer and inventor. In 1909 he was the first to fly across the English Channel in a heavier that air machine.'

Stins Carl Martin Paulsen.

Prof. E. L. Blackshear. Culp, Daniel Wallace. Portraits. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African American educators

Joshua Wanhope, portrait bust

Count Albert Apponyi

Lee DeForest, 1923

Lord Rothermere ca. 1910-1915.

Marquis of Bute

HENRI BARBUSSE (1873 - 1935) French communist writer and editor, noted for his anti-war novels 'Le feu' and 'Clarte'. Date: circa 1910

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) New Zealand-born physicist. Subatomic physics. Nobel prize for Chemistry 1908. Tinted photograph.

Sir W.H. Beveridge, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left

False-coloured photograph of J. Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937), Labours first opposition leader in 1923. Date: March 31st 1923

Portrait of the pastor Max Schmiedel in interdepartment, recorded in the photoatelier in Dresden, Waisenhausstraße 16

Pakistan: Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876 - 1948), founder of Pakistan, as a young lawyer, c. 1910

Kent White

Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish novelist and dramatist, 1910.Artist: GC Beresford

J. Hunier White. March 30, 1936.

Man; inscribed 'Dr Henry' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

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