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A collection of vintage portraits featuring influential men from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The images showcase formal attire and somber expressions.

William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), American sociologist, economist, and protagonist of Social Darwinism. Professor of sociology at Yale University. From 'The Popular Science Monthly' (New York, June 1889).

Harold Kerr. Photograph by James Bacon & Sons.

Franz Kossuth (1841-1914 in Budapest ), Hungarian engineer and politician, 1906. Artist: Unknown

William Glen Liston. Photograph.

Baron Goiningen Gine. 1831. Additional, Baron Gine. 1831., 1884., S.-Peterburg. Publisher, Fototipiia V. Shteina i S. Lapteva, Pervyi kadetskii korpus (Russia). History

TH. H. MAC GILLAVRY.

William Howard Taft 1857 to 1930 27th President of the United States

Catholic Community Dr A. F. Henriques L.M.& S. India NO MR Copyright: xJehangirxSorabjee/DinodiaxPhotox

PORTRET VAN AUGUST ALLEBÉ; A. Allebé.

Portrait of Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832-1908), Anonymous

Nils Ludvig Hippolytus Johansson, Telegraph Director. 1.8.1917 - 1.9.1932. Born 13.8.1865 Dead 17.5.1939.

Dr. F. K. A. Rombach, / chairman of the Association for Health Colonies for Utrecht children / 21 DCember 1905.

Carl Lindströmstin's Söderhamn 1/11 1913 - 31/5 1915

RIVAS , NATALIO. FILOSOFO ESPAÑOL. ALBUÑOL. 1865 - 1958 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Nikolai Alekseevich Khomyakov ca. 1907.

Henri Philippe Petain, Commander in Chief of the armies in France, circa 1917

P. F. Baron van Heerdt.

Stins V. H. Kock.

A. H. Smulders, / The new Catholic Alderman / Van Utrecht

Benjamvn Vicuna Mackenna (1831-1886). Chilean politician and historian. Engraving by Arturo Carretero (1852-1903). The Spanish and American Illustration, 1886

WILLIAM HENRY GRENFELL, LORD DESBOROUGH Sportsman. Date: 1855 - 1945

Portrait of Count Anatole Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1812-1870) by Photo studio Nadar /The Russian State Library, Moscow/1860s/Phototypie/France/Portrait

12/31/1918. The former minister and former president of Congress Mr. Augusto González Besada who has died in Madrid.

Portrait of Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929) a German engine designer and engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. Dated 20th Century

Adolf Hitler (* 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn) ( 30 April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor from 1933, also self-appointed "Fuehrer" and head of state of Germany

Photographic portrait of Karl Warburg (1852-1918) Swedish literary historian; university teacher and politician. Dated 20th Century

Antonio Maura y Montaner was Prime Minister of Spain on five separate occasions: 5 December 1903 16 December 1904, 25 January 1907 21 October 1909, 22 March 1918 9 November 1918, 14 April 1919 20 July 1919, and 13 August 1921 8 March 1922

DR. CARVER, HEAD MASTER OF DULWICH COLLEGE, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

'William Martin Conway, Baron Conway of Ellington (1856-1937) English Art critic, mountaineer and cartographer, pictured c1890.'

Madrid, 1896. Portrait of Julio Casares.

Johan Gustaf Hedborg. District Manager in Östersund 1902 - 1907.

Arthur Pugh (19 January 1870 2 August 1955) a British trade unionist.

Station champion Otto Walfrid Eckman.

Photograph of Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) French neurologist of Polish decent. Dated 1930

Elsevier photo collection. Mr. Dr. G.J. Fabius, Consul Netherlands Sweden. 1921. Sweden

Portrait Karl Albrecht

Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) Irish-born British explorer. Leader of two Antarctic expeditions, 1908 and 1914-1916. Halftone after a photograph.

Antonio Canovas del Castillo (1828-1897). Spanish politician and historian. Founder of the Conservative Party. Portrait. Drawing by Llanta. Lithography. Detail. ""Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Andalucia"", 1869.

W. Woodward. Photograph of W. Woodward, a member of the Titanic's band of eight musicians and one of the many men that died at their post when the ship sank on April 15th, 1912. The band played on until the water was over their feet. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and sank after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, USA, with the loss of 1,522 passengers and crew. (Photo by Ti

Photograph of Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) a British medical doctor and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (Medicine) for his work on the transmission of malaria. Dated 20th century

Matte albumin photograph by Hans Makart from 1910 depicting Kaiser Franz Josef I., showing full figure in formal attire on paper and cardboard formats.

Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941. Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1888-1918

early 1900s photo of Alex Conta.

THOMAS HARDY English novelist and poet. Works noted for the philosophy of stoical pessimism, echoes of Greek tragedies with central folk theme Date: 1840 - 1928

Photographic portrait of John Redmond (1856-1918) an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, and MP in the British House of Commons. Dated 20th century

Description: Photograph of Hon. George Williams O.B.E. Location: St Lucia Date: 27 February 1937 caribbean, saintlucia, caribbeanthroughalens

Fran Vrbanic, b. 1847, 1898 - 1900, Zagreb, Publisher, Nakl. Maticevog litografskog zavoda, Croatia, Biography

Cecil John Rhodes DCL (5 July 1853 26 March 1902)[1 English businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa.

Bennet Burleigh (-1914) Scottish war correspondent who worked for the 'Daily Telegraph' from 1882. Accompanied the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884) and reported on the Boer War. Engraving published London 1901.

Stins A. A. Nilsson.

Portrait of Alain Chartier (1385-1446) a French poet and political writer. Dated 15th Century

Carl Gustav Jung, Anonymous

Willem Witsen. .

Luis E. Ruiz. Photograph by Cruces y Cia.

JOSE MARIA MARTINEZ DE VELASCO. (Madrid, 16 de junio de 1875-Madrid, 22 de agosto de 1936) abogado y político español, varias veces ministro durante el periodo de la Segunda República y diputado en Cortes.

KIPLING, RUDYARD. ESCRITOR BRITANICO. 1865-1936.

Mayor Burchard. Collection of Juhl

Photographic portrait of William Ramsay (1852-1916) a British chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dated 20th century

Ricardo Vertiz. Photograph.

Anton BRUCKNER, 1824-96 Austrian composer, photograph

Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (1883 - 1921), known as Comrade Artyom; Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.

Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860 - 1937), Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays.

Brukbuilder Hans Dillström.

A. W. Barten, 15 May 1907

Portrait of Stanisław Ursyn Rusiecki (1862-1944). unknown, photographer

Kurt Koffka (1886-1941), Anonymous

Portrait of Ludwik Grossman (1835-1915), composer. unknown, photographer

E-L'ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANA-GIUSEPPE VERDI EN 1888. GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901).

Petar Matković (1830-1898), biography, issued between 1898-1900, by Stjepan Kovačević, published in Zagreb by Nakladni Maticevog litografskog zavoda, Croatia

'Mr. St. John Brodrick', c1900. British politician. Engraving after a photograph. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne

Prince Alfons of Bayern (1862 - 1933) - a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry. Date: circa 1900

Photographic portrait of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) an Italian composer. Dated 19th Century

Johann Jakob Brahms, father of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). From a photograph. Halftone.

Willem de 2e

Dr. Josef Cerny (Minister for the Interior) new Czech Cabinet. September 24, 1938.

Admiral Sir John Hereward Edelsten GCB GCVO CBE (12 May 1891 - 10 February 1966) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.

London, Downey, William & Daniel, The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, Portrait of Hugh Price Hughes, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, 57 & 61, Elbury Street, London., height 139 mm, width 93 mm, English, photographer, 1880 - 1890, paper, Woodburytype, cliché maker

DINNER TO BOARD OF GOVERNORS held by GEORGE C. CLARKE at COLONIAL CLUB OF NY (CLUB), 1899., 1899., BOOKLET; PHOTOGRAPH OF SPONSOR; COL; 6.25 X 8.75

RETRATO DE ANTONIO AGUILAR Y CORREA (1824-1908) MARQUES DE LA VEGA DE ARMIJO - PRESIDENTE DEL GOBIERNO DE ESPAÑA DE 1906 A 1907. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Robert Cunninghame Graham, 1852-1936. Scottish novelist. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Scottish, Volume 10""

Charles Melville Hays. Mr Charles Melville Hays, passenger on the Titanic, was 55 - born at Rock Island, Illinois, USA, on 16 May 1856. He was educated at the public schools of Rock Island, and went to work for the Atlantic and Pacific Railway when he was 17. At 22 he was appointed secretary to the Manager of the Missouri Pacific Railway. In 1896 he moved to Montreal to become general manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It was Hays who convinced the Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid L

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, 1850-1894. Scottish novelist, essayist and poet. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Scottish, Volume 10""

W. A. Borger. Photograph.

Brition Riviere (1840-1920) English painter, particularly of animals. Elected a Royal Academician in 1881. From 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery' (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey.

Max M. Warburg i. F. M. M. Warburg, banker, member of the Chamber of Commerce and the citizenship "from the folder" Hamburgish men and women at the beginning of the XX. Century ". Part of the folder" Hamburg men and women at the beginning of the XX. Century - Camera Pictures - Recorded, Copper Etched and Printed by Rudolph Dührkoop Hamburg 1905 ". State state view Hamburg, collection of history of

Anónimo. Retrato de José Canalejas y Méndez (1854-1912). Abogado y político liberal.Diputado con el partido liberal en 1881. Presidente del Congreso de los Diputados (1905-06). Museum: Ateneo, MADRID, SPAIN.

Niels Ryberg Finsen. Photogravure.

A.J.P.vdBroek

03/31/1914. Mr. Francisco Bergamín, senator for life.

Sir Victor Horsley. Photograph.

THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL, PRESIDENT OF THE SUNDAY SOCIETY, 1881

President Theodore Roosevelt, 1945 engraving by the Treasury Dept. from a 1908 portrait (BSLOC_2017_6_45)

Portrait of David Kristian Bergström (1858-1946) a Swedish politician and publisher. Dated 20th Century

Hipólito Yrigoyen (1862-1933), político argentino.

Illustration of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) a Finnish composer and violinist of the Late Romantic and early modern periods. Dated 20th Century

Photographic portrait of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) an English mathematician and philosopher. Dated 20th Century

Portrait of Johan Wagenaar, born November 1, 1862, tone artist/composer in Utrecht, director of the Toonkunst Music School Utrecht (1904-1919), director of the conservatory in The Hague (1919-1937), died 17 June 1941. in Halfijve from the front , sitting.

A man. Photograph by Van Dyck.

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor. Photograph published c.1890. Woodburytype

Photographic portrait of Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950) a Danish author, and Nobel prize laureate. Dated 20th Century

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