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Historical Portraits of Notable Figures

A collection of vintage portraits featuring men in formal attire. The images evoke a sense of history, showcasing a range of hairstyles and facial hair typical of the era.

Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th earl of DERBY Date: 1841 - 1908

Emili Pi Molist (1824-1892), doctor and writer. Engraving, 1892.

February 1914. The new senators for life: Don Manuel Linares Rivas.

12/31/1919. Pablo Iglesias.

Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Portrait photograph, 1888. PIOTR ILICH TCHAIKOVSKY.

Sanllehy y Alrich, Domingo Juan (Barcelona, 1852-1911). Abogado y político español. Militó en el partido conservador. Fué diputado provincial y en 1906 fué nombrado alcalde de Barcelona, cargo del que dimitió en 1908 por desacuerdo con el presupuesto de cultura de aquel año; su dimisión no fué aceptada hasta el año siguiente. Durante su gestión se inició la Reforma Interior de Barcelona.

Garrett A. Hobart, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front, between 1897 and 1899

Elie Metchnikoff. Photograph by Nadar.

John Edward Shaw. Photograph by Lafayette Ltd, 1926.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, (1845-1923), German physicist

Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia 1906-1911

George Cadbury (1839-1922) in 1906 at the age of 78. English Quaker industrialist and social reformer who, with his brother Richard, took over their father's chocolate business in 1861. In 1866 they were the first in Britain to sell cocoa as a drink. In 1879 the firm moved to Bournville, Birmingham. From 'The Life of George Cadbury' by AG Gardiner (London, 1923).

FERNANDEZ SHAW, CARLOS ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. CADIZ 1865-1911.

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) English composer. Elgar at his desk.

Pedro Edgardo Debas, 1845 -1891. Spanish photographer. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana, published 1892.

González Besada y Mein, Augusto (Tuy, 1865-Madrid, 1919). Abogado y político español fue ministro de Hacienda, ministro de Gobernación y ministro de Fomento durante el reinado de Alfonso XIII.

Philosopher c f andrews, india, asia, 1927 Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox

Jay Gould (1836-1892), American Railroad Magnate and Financier, and generally identified as one of the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Bain News Service, 1880's

Giuseppe mazzini. 1967.

Alfred nobler.

GEORGES MELIES.

Dr. L.L. Zamenhof

Friedrich Engels (1820-95) in 1879. German socialist and collaborator and supporter of Karl Marx. Lived mainly in England from 1842. Cooperated on the Communist Manifesto (1848).

Bertholdt Auerbach, historic illustration from History of German Literature from 1885

Piotr Ilyich (1840-1893) Tchaikovsky Russian composer. From card published 1912. Chromolithograph

Frederick Orpen Bower. Photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1924.

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1st Earl of Balfour British politician, Conservative MP Date: 1848 - 1930

Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov GCB (10 August 1860, Ryazan Governorate - 25 December 1927) was a Russian statesman who served as Foreign Minister from November 1910 to July 1916. The degree of Sazonov's involvement in the events leading up to the outbreak of World War I is a matter of keen debate, with some historians putting the blame for an early and provocative mobilization squarely on Sazonov's shoulders, and others maintaining that his chief preoccupation was to reduce the temperature of international relations, especially in the Balkans.

Sir Roger Casement. December 11, 1935.

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), American Politician, Republican U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 1893-1924, head and shoulders Portrait, James E. Purdy, 1902

Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht, 1826 - 1900, German socialist activist and politician

Karl Stumpf. Photogravure by Synnberg Photo-gravure Co., 1898.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kholodkovskii. Photograph.

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist who was the most important founder of medical microbiology. Ca. 1890.

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 23 September 1939); Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. 1929

Manuel Tamayo Baus (1829-1898), dramaturgo castellano. Grabado de 1898.

Photograph of Sir Henry Wood (1869 - 1944) an English conductor. Wood's was a student at both the Royal Academy of Music and the Slade School of Fine Art. He is best known for his association with London Proms, an annual series of promenade concerts. Dated 1926

Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin (1877-1974) by Anonymous /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Piotr Ilich Chaikovski (Votkinsk, 1840-San Petersburgo, 1893). Pianista y compositor ruso.

JOSE MARIA DE PEREDA.

President Castro, seated

George, Prince of Wales, future George V, King of United Kingdom, head and shoulders Portrait, Bain News Service, 1893

FRIEDRICH WILHELM(1831 - 1888) The future Friedrich III of Germany while still Crown Prince of Germany, looking splendidly bearded and wearing a blazer. Married to Princess Vicky of Great Britain, he died after ruling only 3 months. Date: c.1875

'Baudin(Pierre)', c1893. Artist: Pierre Petit.

06/30/1914. D. Agustín de la Serna, baron of sacro lirio and senator for life, who died in Madrid.

'Rudyard Kipling', 1935, (1933). Artist: GL Manuel Freres.

JOSE MARIA DE PEREDA (1833-1906) - ESCRITOR.

Ramón y Cajal, Santiago (Petilla de Aragón, Navarra, 1852-Madrid, 1934). Profesor de Medicina y Cirugía. Histólogo y patólogo español, obtuvo el premio Nobel de Medicina en 1906 por descubrir los mecanismos que gobiernan la morfología y los procesos conectivos de las células nerviosas, una nueva y revolucionaria teoría que empezó a ser llamada la «doctrina de la neurona».

Garret Augustus Hobart, 1844 -1899. 24th Vice President of the United States.

Portrait of Moritz Fürstenau (1824-1889; Flutist, music historian). Reproduction of a photograph of Robert Eich, Dresden before 1873

Assassination of the French foreign minister -- A Portrait of Monsieur Barthou, the French Foreign Minister, who was assassinated at the same time as the king of Yugo-Slavia. Monsieur Barthou received the King when he arrived in Marseilles. November 19, 1934.

Joseph Conrad, arriving in N.Y. on the S.S. Tuscani, 1923. The Polish born British writer, brought a non-English world view to English writing, exemplified by his anti-colonialist novel, 'Heart of Darkness' 1899, set in the murderously exploited Belgian C (BSLOC_2016_8_142)

Erik Satie, 1866 - 1925, a French composer and pianist, portrait digitally edited according to a photography by Henri Manuel, circa 1920

MENENDEZ PIDAL , RAMON. FILOLOGO E HISTORIADOR ESPAÑOL . LA CORUÑA 1869 - 1968. OLEO DE LUIS MENENDEZ PIDAL. ATENEO DE MADRID.

Aleksandr Kuprin (1870-1938). Russian writer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Sirt Buckland. November 27, 1937.

ECHEGARAY, Jos_ de (1832-1916). Spanish writer and politician. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904. Portrait of Jose de Echegaray. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Banco de EspaÐa (Bank of Spain) Collection.

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841-1929), French politician.

RIOS , FERNANDO DE LOS. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. RONDA 1879 - 1949. OLEO DE ANTONIO LOPEZ ALARCON. ATENEO DE MADRID.

William Morris (1834-1996), English artist and writer, 1930s.Artist: Frederick Hollyer

Photograph of Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. Dated 20th Century

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA (3 June 1853 - 28 July 1942), commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Urlin

Arnold Bennett. March 19, 1930. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited)

Charles H. Davis, head-and-shoulders portrait, Vinton, Frederick Porter, 1846-1911, Men, 1900

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862/1918) - COMPOSITOR FRANCES FUNDADOR DE LA ESCUELA IMPRESIONISTA DE MUSICA. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN. CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918).

ADER , CLEMENT. INGENIERO FRANCES. 1841 - 1925. CONSIDERADO EL PADRE DE LA AVIACION. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Eduardo Suarez-Mujiga

Giner de los Ríos, Hermenegildo (Cádiz, 1847-Granada, 1923). Periodista, escritor, pedagogo, publicista y político español vinculado a la Institución Libre de Enseñanza fundada por su hermano Francisco. HERMENEGIDO GINER DE LOS RÍOS.

Historic drawing, portrait of Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, 1824 - 1884, a Bohemian composer of the Romantic period

Anefo photo collection. Supremerabbin Aron Schuster. Rabbis, Jewish religion, Portraits, Schuster, A .. June 12, 1967

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Austrian neurologist, known as the founding father of psychoanalysis circa 1922

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). French chemist and bacteriologist, pioneer of the microbiology. Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

12/31/1929. Portrait of Mariano Fortuny.

Portrait of N. Marjin. Karl Wilhelm Hagelin's friend in Astracha, 1881-1891.Filden is included in two large photo albums by director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked long at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). French poet, novelist, playwright and writer of short stories. 1892

JEAN-ALEXANDRE JOSEPH FALGUIERE French painter and sculptor, photographed in 1890. Date: 1831 - 1900

Portrait of Gabriel Urbain Fauré, 1845 - 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Nadar, 1905

09/23/1908. Don Fermín Canella y Secades, rector of the University of Oviedo - photo Anselmo del Fresno.

Sigmund Freud, Halberstadt, Max (1882-1940)

Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826 - 1900); German socialist and one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

12/31/1928. Muhammad Ali Khan.

RETRATO DE DON ANTONIO BASAGOITI - PRESIDENTE FUNDADOR. Location: BANCO SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPAN. MADRID. SPAIN.

Stanisaw Wojciechowski ca. before 1953.

12/31/1957. Ramón Menéndez Pidal always with his suit.

Vyacheslav Evgenyevich Tishchenko (1861-1941), Anonymous

Sir Michael Foster. Photograph by L. Cobbett, about 1905.

Heaviside (1850-1925) was a founder of the theory of cable telegraphy. He predicted the existence of the conducting layer in the earth´s upper atmosph...

Alexander Mitrofanovich Terpigorev (1873-1959) by Anonymous /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Count Itagaki Taisuke (21 May 1837 - 16 July 1919) was a Japanese soldier, politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement (Jiyū Minken Undō), which evolved into Japan's first political party. His image is on Japan's 1953 100-yen banknote

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Russian composer of the romantic period. Portrait. Watercolor.

NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH. FILOSOFO ALEMAN. 1844-1900.

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