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Mid-20th Century Portraits

Black and white portraits of various individuals from the mid-20th century, featuring formal attire and intellectual expressions.

Vintage photograph. Older man in pinstripe suit and glasses looking off camera
Vintage photograph. Older man in pinstripe suit and glasses looking off camera
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DOMINIC CHIANESE in THE SOPRANO (1999), directed by ALLEN COULTER and TIMOTHY VAN PATTEN.
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A portrait of the artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in Antibes in 1952.
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The Return of Davy Crockett - When Senator Estes Kefauver (from Davy's Home State of Tennessee) made the coonskin cap his campaign Symbol during the 1952 struggle for the democratic presidential nomination, no one dreamed it was destined to become America's "Top Hat" in Just a few years. June 17, 1955. (Photo by United Press).
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Mossadegh Hears Verdict - Mohammed Mossadegh, deposed premier of Iran, stares ahead of him as he hears verdict of guilty during final session in Tehran last Monday of his trial by a military court. He was convicted on 13 charges of acting against the Shah of Iran and sentence to three years of solitary confinement. December 25, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Igor Stravinsky and Jean CocteauStravinsky (left) the composer and Cocteau, the actor and producer, were photographed at a recent meeting in Paris. November 06, 1953. (Photo by Sabine Weiss, Camera Press)
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Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) Austrian physicist who researched wave mechanics as part of quantum theory. Nobel prize for physics 1933. Photograph taken 1956
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Fritz Lang (1890-1976) in Beverly Hills, 1965. Lang was a Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known ©migr©s from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the Master of Darkness by the British Film Institute. His most famous films include the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release), and M, made before he moved to the United States, which is considered the precursor to the film noir genre.
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Toyo Miyatake, (Photographer). Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.
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Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 1975. Soviet composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
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Julio Mangada Rosenorn 1877 - 1946, a prominent military commander during the Republic and the Spanish Civil War. He was an outstanding promoter of Esperanto.
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JOAN FUSTER (1922-1992) - ESCRITOR CATALAN.
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French writer Marguerite Duras.
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Vladimir Nabokov by Anonymous /Private Collection/Photograph/Portrait
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Sam Biber. June 8, 1953.
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Cover of the French publication 'Liberation' after the suicide of Pierre Beregovoy, May 1993. Pierre Eugene Beregovoy (1925 - 1 May 1993) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under President Francois Mitterrand from 2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993. He committed suicide. His successor as Prime Minister, Edouard Balladur, is seen leaving the funeral in Nevers.
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