Mid-20th Century Public Figures

Images of men from the mid-20th century, depicting formal wear and historical significance, exuding an air of authority and respect.

Photographic portrait of Alcide De Gasperi (1881-1954) an Italian statesman and politician who founded the Christian Democracy party. Dated 20th Century

Anefo photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. E. N. van Kleffens, Minister Foreign Affairs Minister 10 August 1939 March 1, 1946. {1940-1945}. Britain, London

Honorfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld, ocean flyer. State state view Hamburg, collection of photography history, acquired 1968

Director Tor Emers.

Robert Hudson, lst Viscount Hudson (1886-1957) British Conservative politician. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1940-1945.

Portrait of JHR.Mr. B.C. de Savornin LOHMAN, born 1883, professor of law at the University of Utrecht (1912-1942, 1946), died 1946. Busteling on the right.

Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated President of the United States on March 4, 1913.

12/31/1962. Madrid, March 1964. Portrait of Julio Casares.

Segunda guerra mundial (1939-1945). Heinrich Hunke (1902-2000), político alemán. Año 1941.

Ferran Callicó i Botella / 'Retrato del dibujante e ilustrador Joan Junceda'.

Sir Sidney West Harris, C.B., C.V.O. -- President of the British Board of Film Censors; formerly Assistant Under Secretary of State, Home Office. July 5, 1955. (Photo by Bassano, Camera Press).

T. S. Eliot , British Poet and Playwright. November 13, 1953. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press)

Photograph of George Marshall (1880-1959) an American statesman and soldier, who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Dated 20th century

Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael GCMG DSO (15 October 1882 - 19 September 1969) was a British colonial administrator. He became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine and was blamed for sending at least 768 Jewish refugees aboard MV Struma to their deaths. During his tenure in Palestine, MacMichael was the target of seven unsuccessful assassination attempts, mainly by the Lehi Group

Photograph of Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) an American inventor and aviation pioneer. Dated 20th Century

Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov (1911 - 2008) Soviet statesman and economist. Minister of Oil Industry from 1944 to 1946 and between 1948 - 1955; Chairman of the State Planning Committee from 1955 to 1957 and 1965 to 1985. In 1935, he was drafted into the armed forces. After completing his military service, he was appointed chief of the oilfield production department in an industrial complex in the USSR. Later he was promoted to chief engineer, then general director. He was responsible for evacuating oil industry facilities to the eastern regions during the Nazi invasion.

Anefo photo collection. PvdA main board. Jan Schilthuis, member of the House of Representatives for the PvdA (formerly VDB). February 19, 1946

Capt. Charles Cousens, Radio Announcer. August 17, 1942.

Stins O. Gustaf Hökerberg.

Portrait of Walter De La Mare by Sir William Rothenstein. Rothenstein (1872-1945) was an English painter, printmaker and draughtsman.

The Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand. March 12, 1948. (Photo by Karsh, Pictorial Press).

Rober Alphonso Taft (1889-1953) United Staes p;olitician. Elected three times as a Republican Senator.

John Wolcott Adams

(George) Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) British novelist born at Southend-in-Sea, Essex. A best selling author in Europe and America in the 1920s and 1930s with novels such as 'Sorrell and Son' (1925). From a series of cards of 'Famous British Authors' (London, 1937).

Michael Joseph Savage, March 1936, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

BABY GOD (2020), directed by HANNAH OLSON.

Portrait of a Man with a Camera. Louis Fleckenstein (American, 1866 - 1943)

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Bernhard. zd}

New Soviet Ambassador In London -- M. Fyodor Gusev, the new Russian Ambassador to Great Britain, photographed at the Soviet Embassy in London. M. Gusev, who speak English fluently, was previously Russian Minister in Canada. October 05, 1943.

Duca Gallanti-Scott - Italian - Personality. November 21, 1947.

Sir Robert Robinson, F.R.S. -- Sir Robert Robinson F.R.S. generally recognised as Britain's leading chemist and once of the greatest organic chemists in the world. He has been profess or of chemistry in Sydney, Australia, at St. Andrews, Manchester, London and Oxford Universities. British Chemical Industry has for a long time depended on his advice. December 17, 1945.

Oscar Laurentius Larsson. Station manager in Ljusdal 1941-1948.

Arvid Olsson in his Matkabys.

Member of the notorious James-Younger gang, Bob Younger, photographed two weeks before his death. Date: 1889

Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg, (1897 1977) Chancellor of Austria from the 1934 to 1938. He was opposed to Hitler's ambitions to absorb Austria into the Third Reich.

James Ramsay MacDonald, 1866-1937. British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading a Labour Government in 1924, a Labour Government from 1929 to 1931, and a National Government from 1931 to 1935

Douglas-Home - Prime Minister. November 20, 1951. (Photo by Barratts Press Agency).

Historian and former White House aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., circa 1960s

Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, Swedish lawyer and author.

Gustav Mahler (Kalischt, 1860-Viena, 1911). Compositor y director de orquesta austríaco.

Tage Fritiof Erlander was a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969

Photograph of Anton Webern (1883-1945) an Austrian composer and conductor. Dated 20th Century

Professor George Von Zedlitz Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Anefo photo collection. Command of Volkskrant: J. van Vollenhoven, director of Hiswa, head. July 7, 1971

Image of the poet that accompanied the publication of "animal de Fondo" (1949), taken during his trip to Argentina. -approximate date.

Portrait of the Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Anonymous

Dwight D. Eisenhower during his tenure as a member of the American Battle Monuments Commission. 1927.

Portrait of professor H. Westra; NSB. Portrait of professor Harmen Westra, professor at the University of Utrecht. Member of the NSB and from 1 July 1942 mayor of The Hague. Shown in gown with white bef. He is wearing glasses and mustache.

John Baird - Inventor Television. December 16, 1931.

De Valera ca. between 1918 and 1921.

Photograph of Richard Niel by Rudolf Koppitz, printed on silver gelatin paper mounted on paper and cardboard, created circa 1920.

12/31/1935. Blas Cabrera.

Max Aub Mohrenwitz (1903 1972) Spanish novelist who, during the Spanish Civil War, was responsible for placing Picasso's 'Guernica' on display at the International Exposition, Paris in 1937

Photograph of Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) an American inventor and aviation pioneer. Dated 20th Century

Photograph of Francis Peyton Rous (1879-1970) an American Nobel Prize-winning virologist. Dated 20th century

ALEXANDER KORDA.

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) Scottish electrical engineer; pioneer of television.

Lord R. Cecil

Professor George Von Zedlitz Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Patrick Alfred Buxton. Photograph.

Hollywood, California: c. 1919A portrait of a stern senior man in elegant clothing holding a cane.

John Logie Baird (1888-1946), Scottish electrical engineer and pioneer of television. Artist: Unknown

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Bernhard. 1974

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. Jhr. Mr. M.W. Van Weede. March 1942. Britain, London

Portrait of Boris Souvarine, 1895 ñ 1984, was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist, History of the Russian Revolution

Titus Brandsma, O.Carm, was a Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest and professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second World War. He was imprisoned in the infamous Dachau concentration camp, where he died.

Vintage photograph. General George C Marshall

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 1856 bis 1924. 28. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. Aus The Illustrated War News 1915., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated

Mr Chichester, 1936 , Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

Tom (Thomas Herbert) Davey. Photograph.

L. Påhlson 1/7 1940-9/11 1946

Portrait of Boris Souvarine - French Marxist.

Mr. Francis Beverley Biddle.. Photographs. 1940. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (1882-1971).

American Personalities: Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Chairman of the Board, General Motors, the larges automobile manufacturers in the United States. November 1, 1955. (Photo by William Vandivert, Camera Press).

A British Minister for Washington. Photo shows...Sir Gerald Campbell.A new post has been created at the British Embassy in Washington, that of British Minister in Addition to the Ambassador. Sir Gerald Campbell, K.C.M.G, at present high commissioner for Canada, has been appointed to the post and he will take his duties on the Arrival of lord *****. January 01, 1941. (Photo by Universal Pictorial Press & Agency)

American chemist Linus Pauling

Photographic portrait of Ernst Wigforss (1881-1959) a Swedish politician an linguist. Dated 20th Century

Vasily Petrovich Nikitin (1893-1956), Anonymous

Portrait of the author Count Aleksey Tolstoy (1882-1945), Gershanik, Roman Vasilyevich (1898-1984)

Thomas Donegan, a Justice department anti-Communist expert. He was involved in the prosecution of Alger Hiss and others during the Postwar Red Scare. 1946. (BSLOC_2014_13_62)

Communist leader Karl Radek (1885-1939), Anonymous

Sir Joghn Rothenstein C.B.E. Ph.D. - Director and Keeper of the Tate Gallery in London. Sir Joghn Rothenstein .. "I would not have said this". June 10, 1953 (Photo by Yevonde, Camera Press).

R-SAMUEL BECKET (1906-1989) IRLANDES. SAMUEL BECKETT.

Yoshio Nishina (1890 - 1951) Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". He led the efforts of Japan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II

12/31/1934. Blas Cabrera.

Hugh Walpole, 1937. Artists: Unknown, WD & HO Wills.

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. Nobel Prize winners. Prof. J. van 't Hoff (1852-1911). {1940-1945}

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