Historical Writers and Artists

Photographs capturing renowned literary and artistic figures in reflective poses, offering a glimpse into their era and identity.

Pierre Richard-Willm (1895-1983), a French actor. Dated 20th Century

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is sometimes called the "father of science fiction"

Photograph of Karol Szymanowski with a cigarette before leaving for France (in sepia)

German Resistance: Resistance worker Carl Ossietzky, died in 1938 as consequence of ill-treatment in concentration camp.

JULIO BRACHO.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. Neveu , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Neveu). shipwrecked image, portrait, man, Human being, Mr Neveu France, Boulogne s ., S, Mr Neveu

Georges Bernanos (1888 1948) French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was critical of bourgeois thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He thought this led to France's eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II

LON CHANEY in THE ROAD TO MANDALAY (1926), directed by TOD BROWNING.

Pierre Richard-Willm (1895-1983), a French actor. Dated 20th Century

Joseph Goebbels (1897 ñ 1 May 1945) German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945

Min J. Balfour associated press. January 01, 1946.

Madrid, 1936. Portrait of the caricaturist and bullfighting critic D. Ricardo García López, «K Hito».

Roßwein. Actor portrait

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. Champion Son , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Champion fils). shipwrecked image, portrait, man, Human being, France , Boulogne , Mr Champion fils

Photograph of Nils Asther (1897-1981) a Swedish actor.

Joseph Maurice Ravel, 1875 - 1937, French composer, pianist and conductor, leading musician in Impressionism, 1925, digitally edited

ALBERT FINNEY in ANNIE (1982), directed by JOHN HUSTON.

12/31/1935. Exhaustion of the Republic: "your honor would be responsible", Casares Quiroga threatens.

05/31/1912. Emilio Thuillier in the protagonist of "My Friend Teddy", a comedy Adapted by Antonio Palomero and Premiered in La Princesa with great success.

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Robert McAlmon, 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Retrato de Pere Bosch i Gimpera (Barcelona, 1891-México, 1974), pre-historiador y arqueólogo. Consejero de justicia de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

12/31/1932. Marañón leaves the palace with the task of forming a government.

Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov, Anonymous

ANTONIO CASO - 1883/1946 - FILOSOFO Y ESCRITOR MEXICANO.

John Cazabon. November 22, 1948. (Photo by John Lee)

1969 Brooke Bond collectors tea card, depicting: John Logie Baird (1888 1946); Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926, and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube.

Photograph of Neil Peirce. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Håkan Sterky, Director General.

Britain's King In Portraits Old And New: Here are portraits of King George VI, both recent and those from earlier days. No. 4 a Jovial, informal pose, No. 5-ready for a fox hunt, No. 6 one of his latest portraits. October 12, 1936. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)

USA, Missouri, Independence, Truman Presidential Campaign Exhibit Truman Presidential Museum & Library

Ignace Reiss (1899-1937), Anonymous

GROUCHO MARX.

Rutland Boughton (23 January 1878 25 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music

Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen in her office, April 13, 1929. Owen was a Democrat from Floridaís 4th district and the daughter of William Jennings Bryan. (BSLOC_2015_16_196)

RAMON PEREZ DE AYALA - S XX. Author: Ignacio Zuloaga. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. RAMON PEREZ DE AYALA (1888-1962).

A mug shot of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), Anonymous

Elsevier photo collection. Lou Bandy, singer conference. 1940

Painting portrait of Franklin Roosevelt circa 1934.

George Arliss (1868-1946), English Actor and Playwright, seated Portrait, Doris Ulmann, 1919

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.

Alexei Dmitrievich Speransky (1888-1961) by Anonymous /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Franz Kafka (1883-1924). Czech writer in German language. Portrait.

Ernst Lubitsch, German-born Jewish film director, 1933. Artist: Unknown

CHARLIE CHAPLIN in MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947), directed by CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

William 'Wild Bill' Donovan (1883-1959), as an Assistant Attorney General under A. Mitchell Palmer. He developed his 'spying' portfolio in the 1920s and 1930s, a lead the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) during the Second World War.

President Ireland, Edward Eamon De Valera ca. between 1918 and 1920.

12/31/1934. Luis Cernuda.

Adolf Hitler 1934

German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, rehearsing a speech in front of the mirror. Dated 1933

CAMPAÑA DEL PP PARA LAS ELECCIONES MUNICIPALES Y AUTONOMICAS DE 1991, JOSE MARIA AZNAR SALUDA JUNTO A LOS CANDIDATOS, RUIZ GALLARDON Y. RUIZ GALLARDON ALBERTO. ALVAREZ DEL MANZANO JOSE MARIA. JOSE MARIA AZNAR (1953-).

Gordon Harker (1885 ñ 1967) English stage and film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959. Seen here as Petty Officer Dingle in 'Admirals All' (1935)

The King. June 6, 1951.

ROBERT VAUGHN in THE SPY WITH MY FACE (1965), directed by JOHN NEWLAND.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660451

Distortograph: William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chicago. Artist: Herbert George Ponting (British, Salisbury, Wiltshire 1870-1935 London). Dimensions: Image: 9.8 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)Sheet: 16.3 x 12 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.)Frame: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) (Framed with 2011.207, .208, .209). Person in Photograph: William Hale Thompson (American, 1869-1944). Date: 1927.Best known for his dramatic photographs of the South Pole, Ponting was also an inveterate tinkerer. In 1927 he patented a lens attachment he dubbed the "variable controllable distortograph," describing it as "a revolutionary optical system for photographing in caricature or distortion." With his patent application, he submitted these caricatures of the flamboyantly corrupt mayor of Chicago William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, known for his protection of the gangster Al Capone and for colorful campaign stunts, such as staging a mayoral debate with two live rats as his opponents. Museum: Metropolitan Mus

Yehudi Menuhin get as marked. May 06, 1935.

Photograph of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) an Italian politician, dictator, and journalist. Dated 20th Century

TYRONE POWER.

Elsevier photo collection. Louis Gimberg, actor comedian, commemorate silver scenic anniversary course season. soon commemorated piece, entitled "Dad" Robert de Flers G.A. Caillavet. 1931

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

Anefo photo collection. Rob van Reijn as the "male Marcus". August 7, 1963

Heinrich Osipovich Graftio (1869-1949) by Anonymous /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Anonymous

Photograph of Harry Carnes. Bureau of Prisons, Inmate case files.

Black and white photograph of the World of Arts and Letters; Existentialist writer, philosopher, journalist Albert Camus (1913-1960).

Goffredo parise

Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) - American comic film actor, producer and director - seen here as Harold 'Speedy' Swift in 'Speedy' (1928). 1928

Màrius Torres y Mercè Figueras, 1942.

Head and Shoulders Double Exposure Portrait of Actor George Bancroft, photo by Eugene Robert Richee for Paramount Pictures, 1930

Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a

GARCIA LORCA, FEDERICO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. FUENTEVAQUEROS (GRANADA). 1898-1936. REPRODUCCION FOTO EN LA QUE APARECE JUNTO A LUIS CERNUDA Y VICENTE ALEIXANDRE, AÑO 1931.

Seymour 'Blue Jaw' Magoon, Irish American hit man in New York's Murder Inc. Ca. 1930s.

Julius Streicher (18851946) prominent Nazi prior to World War II. Founder and publisher of the Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda. At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1946, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.

Rafael de la Cruz Franco Ojeda (1896 ñ 1973) President of Paraguay from February 17, 1936 to August 13, 1937

ALFRED HITCHCOCK in MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK, directed by MARK COUSINS.

MICHAEL CAINE in THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (1999), directed by LASSE HALLSTROM.

ADOLFO MARSILLACH.

José Agustín Goytisolo y José Angel Valente. Colliure, 1959.

Anefo photo collection. Matteotti, Social Democrat in Italy, was killed in 1924. 27 February 1973. Italy

John Purroy Mitchel

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Andrew Goodman, (1943-1964), volunteered for the 1964 Freedom Summer' project of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to register blacks to vote in Mississippi. He was one of three CORE volunteers murdered on June 21, 1964 by Ku Klux Klan members assisted by local government officials.

Anefo photo collection. Franz Kafka (Czech writer) Austrian (head). March 31, 1964

Prince Amedeo of Spain (1845-1890), Duke of Aosta, on his deathbed, drawing by E Chessa, from La Tribuna Illustrata, No 5, February 2, 1890.

Portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) by Natanson, Thadee (1868-1951)/Private Collection/c. 1900/Photograph/France/Portrait

Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1883 1924, German-speaking Bohemian novelist, digitally edited according to a photograph and a self portrait Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1883 1924, German-speaking Bohemian novelist, digitally edited according to a photograph and a self portrait Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636555

MICHEL PICCOLI in THE GRANDE BOUFFE (1973) -Original title: LA GRANDE BOUFFE-, directed by MARCO FERRERI.

Boris Karloff in promotional photo for Bride of Frankenstein.. 1935. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Bride of Frankenstein (Motion picture)

Guglielmo Marconi.

George C. Scott, Head and Shoulders Portrait, on-set of the Film, "Rage", Warner Bros., 1972

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936). Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. Member of the Generation of '27. Portrait. Drawing and watercolor by the Spanish illustrator Francisco Fonollosa (d. late 20th century).

BUSTER KEATON.

Maxim Gorky and Suleiman Stalsky on the First Congress of Soviet Writers in August 1934 by Anonymous /Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/1934/Photograph/Russia/Portrait,History

Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1883 1924, German-speaking Bohemian novelist, digitally edited according to a photograph and a self portrait Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1883 1924, German-speaking Bohemian novelist, digitally edited according to a photograph and a self portrait Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636506

MICHEL PICCOLI in THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (1974) -Original title: LE FANTOME DE LA LIBERTE-, directed by LUIS BUÑUEL.

A mug shot of Grigory Zinoviev, Anonymous

Germany: Studio portrait of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) c. 1934

Der Spiegel front cover, 1982. Yuri Andropov replaces Leonid Brezhnev as soviet leader.

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

RETRATO DE D.GUSTAVO SUAREZ PERTIERRA-MINISTRO DE EDUCACION. Author: SARRAGUN LEYVA. Location: MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION Y CIENCIA. MADRID. SPAIN.

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