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Mid 20th Century Politicians

Black and white images of notable male political figures from the 1930s and 1950s, dressed formally in suits, often seen at desks or in candid poses.

Andre Geraud (1882-1974) French nationalist anti-fascist journalist and writer. Pen name Pertinax. Escaped to America on fall of France, his fortune confiscated by the Vicy regime. Author of The Gravediggers of France, 1944.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Telegraaf: Portrait of Robert Stolz Al. October 12, 1961

ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

Portrait of an Unidentified Man, circa 1928, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

President Roosevelt Personal Envoy To The Vatican Arrives in London -- Mr. Myron Taylor photographed in London to-day, on his way to the U.S.A. on a short visit.A most astute statesman, Mr. Myron Taylor, Pres. Roosevelt's personal envoy to the Vatican, has held a unique neutral post during the war although he represents over 20,000,000 American Catholics who are pledged to fight the Axis to final victory. The position of Special Envoy to the Pope dedmans a man of great responsibility, and Mr. Taylor is famous for being silently competent. October 5, 1942.

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. J.A.W. Burger, Minister Interior. {1940-1945}. Britain, London

12/31/1972. Closeup - in his role of "twelve men without mercy" on TV.

Hanson Baldwin. July 16, 1950.

Daniel F. Cohalan

James A. Van Allen (1914-2006), American space physicist, discovered radiation belts surrounding the Earth and extending for several thousand miles into space. The Van Allen Radiation Belts were one of the first major scientific discoveries from Earth orbiting satellites in the late 1950s.

Lluís Companys (1882-1940), presidente de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Año 1937.

Walter Björnberg, Major at the Defense Agency.

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of André Gide , 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

12/31/1961. Daniel Vázquez Díaz on turning 80.

ERNEST SHACKLETON Naval officer and explorer of the Antarctic. Date: 1874 - 1922

The artist and inventor of political photomontage John Haertfield at an exhibition of his works in 1964 in East Berlin, DEU, Germany, GDR, Europe

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. A.H.J. Lovink. Consultant, head East Asian business service. 1942. Britain, Indonesia, Indonesia, London, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. VARA TV crime at miter. Jan Grefe. March 14, 1962

12/31/1932. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Mr. R.L. Dean, 47 Frederick St., Gosford. Liberal Candidate for Robertson. April 01, 1951.

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Claus von amberg. 1965

12/31/1955. Enrique Jordá, the Spaniard who conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in California and who has reappeared in Spain, at the International Festivals of Santander and Seville.

Jack Rose -- the Bronx - 7th Insp. Dist.

Anefo photo collection. Unveiling bronze portrait of Arthur Rubinstein in the Artist Foyer of the Congress Building; Arthur Rubinstein. April 23, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Man; inscribed 'Mr Griffiths' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

George Grey Turner. Photograph by Harry Lister, 1947.

Stins Dan Ekström

A Portrait of Benjamin Britten. December 13, 1947. (Photo by Barratts Photo Press Agency).

12/31/1929. José Calvo Sotelo in his office.

Film still of Sally Gray (1915-2000) and Michael Wilding (1932-2011) from 'Carnival'.

Jacques WORTH, French fashion designer, grandson of Frederick Charles Worth, 1826-95, founder of haute couture

Manuel Azana Diaz (1880 - 1940) Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936-1939).

MORENO TORROBA , FEDERICO. COMPOSITOR ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1891 - 1982. FOTOGRAFIA EN MADRID EN EL AÑO 1979.

Anefo photo collection. Leonard Huizinga. Leonard Huizinga. November 5, 1945

Anefo photo collection. President of the Dominican Republic of General Hector Benvenido Trujillo Molina. February 29, 1960. Dominican Republic

12/31/1959. Film director Ladislao Vajda.

ALEC GUINNESS.

VIRGILIO BOTELLA PASTOR, ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. Location: FUNDACION PABLO IGLESIAS. MADRID. SPAIN.

LUIS COMPANYS (FOTOGRAFIA DE 1932). Author: BORREL J. LLUIS COMPANYS JOVER.

Woodrow Wilson, half-length seated portrait during campaign for New Jersey Governor, Unidentified Artist, 1910

BUSTER KEATON.

Anefo photo collection. Press conference national coach Dutch football team. Portrait Jaap van Prague press conference. September 4, 1981

Jesse L. Williams

Christopher Fry the Playwright in the drawing room of his London house. September 5, 1951. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press).

Anefo photo collection. Cor Ruys, 40-year-old scenic anniversary. The jubilee makes a tour through the part "the Gregory family" from Wynyard Brown with Cor Ruys in the lead role of Dominate Martin Gregory. The premiere goes on November 1, 1950 in Rotterdam .. October 28, 1950. Rotterdam, South Holland

Portrait, man. Porträtt, man.

Noel Coward the Astonished heart. October 15, 1950.

Vladimir Zworykin holding his newly patented cathode ray tube. November 18, 1929, Anonymous

Commandant Jacques Cousteau at the gala party "Le Monde du Silence". 1956.

ANTONIO MACHADO (1875/1939). ANTONIO MACHADO Y RUIZ (1875-1939).

British Politicians:Robert Carr. M.A..M.PConservative member of Parliament for Mitcham, Since 1950;Parliamentary private Secretary to Sir Anthony Eden, 1951-55. November 01, 1955. (Photo by Bassano, Camera Press)

Anefo photo collection. Portrait of baron a.w.c. Bentinck van Schoonheten. November 30, 1965

Mr. W Bird. August 21, 1947.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970). British philosopher and mathematician. Nobel prize for literature 1950.

WALT DISNEY PRODUCTOR Y DIRECTOR DE CINE ESTADOUNIDENSE . 1901 - 1966 EN EL AÑO 1927 CREO A SU PRIMER PERSONAJE FAMOSO , MICKEY.

Tom Clark - A Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, formerly U.S. Attorney General. February 27, 1952. (Photo by Camera Press).

Vintage Photograph. Man in suit jacket with handkerchief in pocket poses for studio portrait.

El poeta español Claudio Rodríguez retratado en su casa de Madrid el año 1970.

The Voice of Russia - Ehrenburg Speaks At Peace Rally.Iliya Ehrenburg, fiery Soviet writer noted for his diatribes against the Nazis and, lately, for those nations disagreeing with the Communist ideology, spoke - through an interpreter - to crowds massed in Trafalgar Square, London, for the peace rally organised in connection with the All-Britain Peace Conference. Ehrenburg, member of the Supreme Soviet and regarded as the authentic voice of the Kremlin, is visiting England for the first time since 1936. July 23, 1950. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Connie Mack, Manager and owner of the Philadelphia Athletics , Baseball managers, Mack, Connie, 1862-1956. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

DAVID WAYNE in WILL YOU LOVE ME IN DECEMBER (1951) -Original title: AS YOUNG AS YOU FEEL-, directed by HARMON JONES.

Anefo photo collection. Minister Hadji Adam Malik of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, head. August 27, 1970. Indonesia

José María Gil-Robles y a prominent Spanish politician in the period leading up to the Spanish Civil War, speaks in Parliament in 1936

John Halliday, head and shoulders Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Hotel For Women", 20th Century-Fox, 1939

Oscar Egg, 12/2/12

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928). Explorador noruego de los polos, en el año 1920. Noruega. S.XX.

F. W. MURNAU.

ADOLFO PREGO.

Anefo photo collection. National Sports Center "Papendal" at Arnhem in use director of sports center, Dr. H. A. M. Hermans, Kop. October 29, 1970. Arnhem

Anefo photo collection. Mr. Philippe C. de la Chapelle 80 years. July 31, 1962

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. Pangeran Adipati Ario Suoejono. {"before 1943"}. Britain, London

Photograph of Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce. Dated 1942

Lewis, Sinclair, whose realist novels of the 1920-30s were critical of American capitalism. Portrait by Arnold Genthe Arnold, Mar. 7, 1914. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 (BSLOC_2016_7_8)

12/31/1919. Rafael Guerra "Guerrita" With "Gallito" in Madrid.

Mr. Pilot H. Warren G. Penny. February 23, 1935.

HUMPHREY BOGART. 1950.

Mr. Justice A. Richardson. May 14, 1952.

12/31/1929. Photography of journalist Jacinto Miquelarena in the 1930s.

12/31/1969. Portrait of the writer Henry Miller.

Juan García Oliver (1901 1980) Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary, and a leading figure of anarchism in Spain.

12/31/1974. In the Image, Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod.

Barratt O'Hara

Gustav Mahler, Czech born, austrian composer, composed mainly songs and symphonies. Became conductor of Vienna State Opera and New York Philharmonic Society.

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Claus. 1970

Arthur Quiller-Couch, English poet, novelist, anthologist and critic, c1927. Artist: Unknown

Andrei Gromyko in 1984. (1909 1989). Soviet Russian statesman during the Cold War. Minister of Foreign Affairs (19571985) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (19851987).

Woody Allen, Zelig, 1983.

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