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Historical Portraits of Notable Figures

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).
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).
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(Francis) Bret Harte (1836-1902) American editor and story writer. From 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery' (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey.
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D. Luis Azcarate Alvarez director del Banco de Espana en Gijon. Assassinated 1923
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Mr. Dr. W. A. van Zijst
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Portrait of Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) a British politician and statesman. Dated 20th Century
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States Engraving
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Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC (25 February 1845 12 September 1918) was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia
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Adolf Hitler, German Nazi leader. Artist: Unknown
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Thomas Alva Edison. Wood engraving by M. K. L. Wright after V. Daireaux.
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RAFAEL BENJUMEA -CONDE DE GUADALHORCE 1876-1952 SIG 1065. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID.
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Superinspector Emil Edvard Fritz Ekebergh.
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William McKinley (died 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades.
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FIGUERAS Y MORAGAS, Estanislao (1819-1882). Spanish politician, first president of the First Republic (1873). Portrait by E. Montserrat. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Gallery of Famous Catalans. Requesens Palace.
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Mr. L. van Lier in / Utrecht, now acting / mayor.
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'Mr J.D. Cohn', 1911. Creator: Unknown.
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Portrait of A. ROOBOL, born 1892, teacher of classical languages at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht (1916-1957), direct (1939-1957), died 19. Bust from the front.
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Erckrath de bary, Olympic games athletics official, Berlin 1936
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Photographic portrait of Adolf Bastian (1826-1905) German polymath. Dated 20th Century
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D Severiano Martinez Anido, vice-president del Consejo y Spanish minister of Finance
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This photo, which dates to the 1920s, shows Paul von Hindenberg. The caption reads: The President of Germany. Paul von Hiundenberg, a leader in time of war in the days of the monarchy, was called upon to lead his people in time of peace in the days of the Repiublic. He succeeded the late Friedrich Ebert as President of the German Reich in 1925.
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Elsevier photo collection. W. Küppers, journalist founder "New Coulant". 1920
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Henri Philippe Omer Petain (11856-1951) French soldier and statesman: superseded Nivelle as Commander-in-Chief, May 1917, Head of Vichy government after 1940. Chromolithograph card 1917
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George Francis Durgin. Portraits, Prints. 1908. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
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Unknown photographer, portrait of Franz Schwechten (1900): Portrait of Franz Schwechten. Photo on cardboard, 15.5 x 10.4 cm (including scan edges) unbek. Fotograf : Portrait Franz Schwechten
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Photographic portrait of Anders Örne (1881-1956) a Swedish journalist and politician. Dated 20th Century
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Prof. Dr. Jhr. B. H. C. K. van der Wijck.
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Photographs: Unidentified man, approximately 1884-1930 , Feminists, United States, Suffragists. Victoria Woodhull Martin Papers
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CORTEZO, CARLOS MARIA MEDICO Y POLITICO ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1850-1933 REPRODUCCION FOTO.
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Massimo d'AZEGLIO, 1798-1866 Italian politician and writer
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Photograph of Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As President, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism
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Robert Smythe Hichens, 1864-1950. English writer. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, English, Volume 9""
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Fyodor Nikanorowitsch Muchin (1878 - 1919); Russian revolutionary. From December 1917 he was one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks in the Amur area , from February 1918 chairman of the area executive committee. In 1919 he was captured by the White Guards in Blagoveschensk and murdered after being questioned for over 12 hours.
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Photographic portrait of John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925) officer commander known as the Viscount of France. Dated 20th Century
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Portrait de Dr. Louis Vintras , Physicians, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
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RETRATO DE JOSE DE POSADA HERRERA (1815-1885) POLITICO LIBERAL - SIGLO XIX. Author: IGNACIO SUAREZ LLANOS (1830-1881). Location: ATENEO-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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J. M. Timp.
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Sabatino Lopez (1867-1951) was an Italian playwright, critic and novelist. Born in Leghorn, Lopez spent some years as a teacher before devoting himself to the theatre and dramatic criticism
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Catholic Community Dr. Cajetan Fernandes M.D. India NO MR Copyright: xJehangirxSorabjee/DinodiaxPhotox
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Drawing of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890 - 1986); Soviet politician and diplomat, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s. He rose to power as a protege of Joseph Stalin. Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956. He served as First Deputy Premier from 1942 to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev
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'Nietzsche', (1919). Creator: Unknown.
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Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg (14 December 1897 - 18 November 1977) was an Austrian Fatherland Front politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany
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Photographic portrait of Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) a French composer. Dated 20th Century
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Marcus Stone. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
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'Portrait of Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones'. Location: ATENEO-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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CARLOS I, KING OF PORTUGAL Photograph of King Edward VII with his friend, King Carlos I of Portugal who was unfortunately assassinated in February 1908. Date: 1863 - 1908
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Mr. Fagot (Ardennes).
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Portrait of O. Oppermann, born 1873, extraordinary professor in the history of the Middle Ages at the Utrecht University (1909-1918), died 1946. Bust image left.
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Portrait of Zhang Zuolin (1875-1928) the warlord of Manchuria. Dated 20th Century
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Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 22 December 1848, 25 September 1931, was a German classical philologist. Wilamowitz, as he is known in specialist circles, was a renowned expert on Greek antiquity and its literature, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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JosÄ CANALEJAS, 1854-1912, Spanish prime minister 1910-12 for democratic party, led anti-clerical campaign, assassinated 1912
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Gustav Groeber, born 4 May 1844 in Leipzig, died 6 November 1911 in Ruprechtsau near Strasbourg, was a German Romance philologist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888 - 15 March 1938), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and prolific author on revolutionary theory. As a young man, he spent six years in exile, working closely with fellow exiles Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned to Moscow, where his Bolshevik credentials earned him a high rank in the party, and after the October Revolution, he became editor of the party newspaper Pravda.
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Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian Arctic explorer, scientist and diplomat, 1915. Artist: Unknown
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Thomas A. Edison by Cora Burghard in the lobby of the Lee County Bank, Fort Myers, Fla. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Photographic portrait of Arne Westgren (1889-1975) a Swedish metallograf and Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Stockholm. Dated 20th Century
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Mr. R. D. Baart de la Faille, Vice-Presi / Dent of the District Right. in Utrecht, / who, on request, has / has been dismissed as such.
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Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon, KCMG (11 June 1829 2 February 1904), Australian politician, was the Premier of Tasmania from 1894 to 1899, and was a Member of the First Australian Parliament in the House of Representatives. Braddon was a Tasmanian delegate to the Constitutional Conventions.
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These days, at the age of 72, Mr. Leo Pen- / Ning, writer and journalist died in Utrecht. The in Utrecht. He / wrote several boys' books / of which and some of them have been translated into German and / English.