Noble Figures in Uniform

Formal portraits of men in military and royal attire from the early 20th century, showcasing elaborate uniforms and insignia.

Portrait of Prince Joachim

The Ex-Kaiser of Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm. January 09, 1948. (Photo by London General Press).

King Farouk of Egypt. 1930

Manuel Pavía y Lacy, 1st Marquis de Novaliches (6 July 1814 in Granada 22 October 1896 in Madrid), Spanish marshal.

Emperor Taisho (1879-1926) 123rd emperor of Japan 1912-1926. Outside Japan sometimes called Emperor Yoshihito. Full-length portrait of Emperor in military uniform with order and decorations.

Arthur William James MacFadden. Photograph by Valentine.

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (1917 - 1980), commonly known as Yahya Khan, was a Pakistani general who served as the third president of Pakistan from 25 March 1969 until December 1971

Guillaume apollinaire

The meeting between Francis Joseph I of Austria and Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in Budapest, Hungary, illustration from L'Illustration, No 3424, October 10, 1908.

DATO IRADIER, EDUARDO POLITICO ESPAÑOL. LA CORUÑA 1856-1921 OLEO DE JOSE MORENO CARBONERO , 1919 COLECCION PARTICULAR. Author: JOSE MORENO CARBONERO (1860-1942).

The Nizam of Hyderabad, ... recently some of his many sons jounred a union to obtain an increase in their allowances.***** slavery in the ***** of the Nizam Hyderabad.The allegation says the Nizam is keeping more than 300 men and an unknown number of boys, women and girls as slaves.Lawyer B.G. Keskar, who is waging a one-man war against the Nizam, charges that the ruler of Hyderabad one of the richest men in the world is enjoying unconstitutional privileges".Bomb at Car - Keskar has a record rows with the Nizam.In 1950 he was found not guilty of throwing a bomb at his car. March 29, 1955.

Photographic portrait of Robert Falcon Scott, the English naval commander and explorer, in his Royal Navy uniform, c.1910. Scott led several expeditions to the Antarctic, dying during a 1912 journey to the South Pole. Date: 1913

Portrait of crown prince of Germany

H.M The King of Spain, 1908.Artist: WD & HO Wills

Hjalmar Nisbeth Hjalmar Nisbeth

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Saigō Jūdō (1 June 1843 - 18 July 1902) was a Japanese politician and admiral in the Meiji period

Sir Arthur Vicars, standing, three-quarters

Uniform (D): First lord of the Admiralty became Churchill's first important post in the British Government. He served, at the age of 36, in the days before world War II, took the job again before Hitler attacked. Love of the sea is traced to this period. February 01, 1953. (Photo by International News Photo).

The Bey of Tunisia - H.H. Sidi Mohamed al Amin, Bey and Possessor of the Kingdom of Tunisia. August 02, 1954. (Photo by Harcourt, Camera Press).;The Bey of Tunisia - H.H. Sidi Mohamed al Amin, Bey and Possessor of the Kingdom of Tunisia.

OSCAR II King of Sweden (1872-1907) and of Norway (1872-1905)

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, (1850-1942), 1937. Artist: Philip A de Laszlo

Mehmed V (1844 918) was the 35th Ottoman Sultan. He was the son of Sultan Abdülmejid I. reigned as Sultan of Turkey 1909 1918

1880 (ca.). Mutsuhito, emperor of Japan in the Meiji era. (retouched photo).

Portrait of Edward VII of England Made in 1901.

Serbia, 1906. Portrait of Prince George of Serbia.

This image of British explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) appeared in Stanley's book "In Darkest Africa."

Portrait of Prince Joachim of Prussia

Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1845-94). He was the younger son of Tsar Alexander II and became heir with the death of his elder brother, Nicholas. He married Princess Dagmar of Denmark (sister of Queen Alexandra) in 1866 who became Empress Maria Fedorovna. He followed a repressive domestic policy, especially in the persecution of the Jews, and promoted Russian language, traditions and the Orthodox Church. Despite several assassination attempts he died a natural death and was succeeded by hi

Cigarette card depicting George V (1865-1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India. Dated 20th century

Georges Boulanger Photo by Nadar. Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (April 29, 1837 September 30, 1891) French general and reactionary politician.

Anefo photo collection. Russian Old President Worosjilow from the grace. November 7, 1961

General John G. Pershing ca. 1909-1923.

Nicholas II (1868-1918), Tsar of Russia in the years 1894-1917, left, and George V (1865-1936), King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India in the years 1910-1936, right, photograph by Ernst Sandau (1880-1918) from the magazine L'Illustration, year 71, no 3667, June 7, 1913.

NICHOLAS II, H.I.M. Tsar of Russia, circa 1914

PERIODICO BLANCO Y NEGRO - PRIMO DE RIVERA 1870/1930 -POLITICO, MILITAR, DICTADOR Y JEFE DE GOBIERNO. MIGUEL PRIMO DE RIVERA. MARQUES DE ESTELLA.

Gensui Prince Yamagata Aritomo (14 June 1838 - 1 February 1922), also known as Prince Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a senior-ranking Japanese military commander, twice-elected Prime Minister of Japan, and a leading member of the genrō, an élite group of senior statesmen who dominated Japan after the Meiji Restoration. As the Imperial Japanese Army's inaugural Chief of Staff, he was the chief architect of the Empire of Japan's military and its reactionary ideology

Feng Yu Hsiand

Sunjong, emperor of Korea, 1874-1926

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974). Artist: Unknown

Czar Nicholas II of Russia in 1886, at age 18 (BSLOC_2017_2_4)

Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Born 1878, in Georgia, died March 5, 1953.

Crown Prince of Japan (now Emperor)

Portrait of Ito Yuko (1843 - 1914), before 1914

12/31/1913. King Alexander of Serbia.

Studio portrait of George V taken aboard 'HMY Victoria and Albert', c1935. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes.

Albert I (8 April 1875 17 February 1934) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 until 1934.

Photograph of Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia (1888 1958) was the fifth son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Dated 19th Century

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891-1941) by Anonymous /State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow/Early 20th cen./Photograph/Russia/Tsar's Family. House of Romanov

OTTO BISMARCK (1815-1898)POLITICO PRUSIANO Y PRIMER CANCILLER DEL 2ºIMPERIO ALEMAN. Otto von Bismarck.

World War I . 1914, Wilhelm Ernst Karl Alexander (10 June 1876 - 24 April 1923) was the last Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

H. E. William Addis, C.M.G. Governor and commander-in-Chief of the Seychelles. April 12, 1954. (Photo by Camera Press)

GAULLE, CHARLES DE . POLITICO FRANCES. 1890-1970.

King Umberto II of Savoy, 1911

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi, 1885 - 1933). King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 to 1933. He was a member of the Hashemite dynasty. seen here in london with King George V. Circa 1930

Photographic print of Mikhail Borodin (1884-1951) the alias of Mikhail Gruzenberg, a prominent Comintern agent. Dated 20th Century

King Edward VIII, as Prince of Wales, Portrait, circa 1920's

Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945); Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party. He ruled Italy as the prime minister from 1922 to 1943;

07/31/1921. Death of a Sovereign very recent portrait of King Peter of Serbia who died in Belgrade (Meurisse).

Nils Georg Agell.

Nicolas Franco 1891 - 1977. Spanish soldier and politician, participant in the military uprising against the Second Republic that led to the Spanish Civil War. older brother of Francisco Franco

12/31/1899. Carlos María de Borbón y Austria-Este, self-styled "Duke of Madrid" and "Count of Alcarria", Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the name of Carlos VII, poses with his son Jaime de Borbón y Borbón-Parma.

Klas Hjalmar Larsson. Station champion in Munkedal.

HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942), fourth son of George V and Queen Mary. Despite a military education, he became the first member of the Royal family to work for the Civil Service. In 1938, he married Princess Marina of Greece with whom he had three children. Often considered the most intelligent of George V's children, the outbreak of World War II prevented him from taking up the post of Governor-General of Australia. He was tragically killed on active service, when his Sunderland b

Franz Ferdinand (18 December 186328 June 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungarys declaration of war against Serbia

Prince And Princess Kaya Go To Abroad -- The most recent portrait of Prince Kaya.Prince and Princess Kaya, Instructor of Military College of Tokyo, are to go abroad by N.Y.K. liner Yasukuni Maru for world inspection tour, leaving Tokyo on March 7th, it is officially reported by Imperial Household dept. January 25, 1934. (Photo by Shimbun Rengo News Photos Service).

11/30/1911. Mr. Amaro Alufre, prosecutor of the case for the Carcagente Events.

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia 1888 to 1934, as Crown Prince of Serbia. From L Illustration, 1916., historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Edward VII (1841 - 1910) King of Great Britain, pictured in his Royal Naval uniform as Admiral of the Fleet, c.1905. Date: c.1905

Ulysses Heureaux. Ulises Hilarión Heureaux Lebert, aka Lilis (San Felipe de Puerto Plata 1845 - Moca 1899), was a Dominican military man and politician. President of the Dominican Republic in the nineteen century. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

Julius Streicher (1885 1946); a prominent member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. After the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed

Prince Matsukata Masayoshi (25 February 1835 - 2 July 1924) was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1891 to 1892 and 1896 to 1898

Paul von Hindenburg, Victor of Tannenberg

Black and white photograph of Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958).

Joseph stalin, 1918

tsar Nicholas II of Russia circa 1910

05/31/1914. Prince Alexandre of Servia, heir to the Throne, whose father King Peter has Abdicated.

Photograph of King George II of Greece (1890-1947). Dated 1942

Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, Portrait, circa 1900

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (1888 - 1972) Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as Director of the Tupolev Design Bureau.

Count Kuroda Kiyotaka (9 November 1840 - 23 August 1900), also known as Kuroda Ryōsuke, was a Japanese politician of the Meiji era. He was Prime Minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was also vice chairman of the Hokkaido Development Commission (Kaitaku-shi)

VICTOR ALEXANDER JOHN, second marquis of LINLITHGOW viceroy of India, who once had the privilege of meeting the writer of this caption when I was very young. Date: 1887 - 1952

'George V, King of the United Kingdom from 1910', c1936, (1945). Artist: Unknown.

Portrait of Hermann Göring (1893-1946) a leading member of the Nazi Party. Dated 20th Century

Bureau manager Gustaf Peder Wilhelmsson Dyrssen.

Olympic champion Alberto Braglia. 1912.

Spain's Foreign Minister - Alberto Martin Artajo. November 10, 1950. (Photo by Camera Press).

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 - 20 November 1975) was the dictator of Spain from 1939 to his death in 1975. A conservative, he was shocked when the monarchy was removed and replaced with a democratic republic in 1931. With the 1936 elections, the conservatives fell and the leftist Popular Front came to power. Looking to overthrow the republic, Franco and other generals staged a partially successful coup, which started the Spanish Civil War. With the death of the other generals, Franco quickly became his faction's only leader. Franco received military support from local fascist, monarchist and right-wing groups, and also from Hitler's Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Leaving half a million dead, the war was eventually won by Franco in 1939. He established an autocratic dictatorship, Francoist Spain, which he defined as a totalitarian state, installing himself as head of state and government, with one legal political party: a merger of the monarchist party and th

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975) known as Franco.

Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse - New Studio Portrait of Admiral Sir Roger House, who for the last two years has been Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet.Sir Roger, who is 59 is an expert in gunnery and is acknowledged to posses one of the most brilliant minds in the Navy.Her served in the European War, 1914-19. (C.B., and C.M.G.,). March 1, 1938.

A portrait of Prince Carol (1893-1953), heir to the Romanian throne, published shortly after his father, King Ferdinand I, abandoned his country's neutrality and joined the Allied side during the First World War. Carol later renounced his claim to the throne when he left his wife, Princess Helen of Greece, for his mistress, Magda Lupescu, and went with her into exile in 1925. He returned to Romania in 1930 and replaced his son, who had succeeded King Ferdinand upon his death in 1927, as king, an

King ALEXANDER I of Serbia 1888-1934 King of Serbs Croats Slovenes and Yugoslavia

A striking portrait of Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916), British Field Marshal, diplomat, and statesman. circa 1916

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