Notable Historical Figures Portraits

Black-and-white portraits of influential historical figures, presenting them in formal attire, reflecting early 20th-century styles and personalities.

Photographic portrait of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period. Dated 20th century

Jose Pardo Y. Barreda, President of Peru ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Prof. Dr. J. de Vries

MANUEL AZAÑA (1880-1940) MINISTRO DE GUERRA EN 1931. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Barcelona. SPAIN.

Sir Henry Gurney New High Commissioner For Malaya -- Sir Henry Gurney new High Commissioner for Malaya. Henry Gurney, former Chief Secretary in Palestine, who has been appointed High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, succeeds Sir Edward Gent in the post, who was killed when an airliner crashed near Northolt on July 4th. It will be some seeks before Sir Henry arrives in Malaya. He is 50-years-old, and was in the last plane-load of men civilians to leave Palestine during the British evacuation in May. September 08, 1948. (Photo by Reuterphoto)

Sir Aldo Castellani & Lady - Specialist On Tropical Diseases - Personalities. October 17, 1935.

AZAÑA , MANUEL POLITICO ESPAÑOL.ALCALA DE HENARES 1880 - 1940. Presidente del Gobierno de España (1931-1933, 1936) y Presidente de la Segunda República Española (1936-1939). REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Portrait presumably from Dr. E.B. Couvee, born 1874, reformed pastor in Utrecht (1932-1945), died 1950. Bust to the left of the front.

Photographic portrait of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period. Dated 20th century

Andrew Brown. Photograph, 1926.

Photoportrait of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, circa 1920

William Mackenzie King was a Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as Prime Minister 1921-1930, and 1935-1948, and led Canada through the World War 2 (BSLOC_2017_1_65)

07/09/1946. Luis Fernandez Ardavin.

Photographic portrait of Sir Landon Ronald (1873-1938) an English conductor, composer, pianist, teacher and administrator. Dated 20th century

George Macdonald. Photograph by Lafayette Ltd.

France's New Premier -- A recent portrait of M. Felix Gouin, the new Premier of France. February 18, 1946.

Axel Hjalmar Tiderman, sub -engineer.

Bertram Ford . September 20, 1937.

FRANCISCO VILLAESPESA (1877-1936)-EL MODERNISTA ESPAÑOL-FOTOGRAFIA BLANCO Y NEGRO.

President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) in 1916 portrait.

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov (Sergey Rakmaninov) 1873-1943. Russian pianist and composer. Rachmaninov c1922.

Photograph of Joe Pasternak (1901-1991) a Hungarian-born American film producer. Dated 20th Century

Max Aitken, lst Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964) Canadian-born British press baron, business tycoon, and writer. Appointed to wartime Cabinet by Winston Churchill in May 1940 as Minister of Aircraft Production.

01/01/1944. Vicente Castañeda y Alcover, academic at the Institute of Spain.

Winner Of The 1930 Pulitzer Prize For The Drama.Marc Connolly, noted humorist and playwright whose work "Green Pastures" won for him the Pulitzer drama prize for 1930. The race for this award was particularly interesting this year. At first "strictly dishonorable" was considered the outstanding play, but the "criminal code" was said to have put the former out of the running. Then came "The last mile" which was hailed by critics as more worthy than the two previous plays. This last production had not been under way for any considerable time when "Green Pastures" had its opening. May 13, 1930. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

New High Commissioner For Malaya -- Sir Henry Gurney, the new High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, photographed after taking up his appointed at the Colonial Office in Great Smith Street, London.Sir Henry Gurney, who was Chief Secretary to the Palestine Government when that country was a British mandate, succeeds Sir Edward Gent, recently killed in an air crash on his arrival in London. September 8, 1948.

Manuel Azaña Díaz (1880-1940). Político y escritor español. Presidente de la segunda república española. Año 1933.

Igor Stravinsky.

P.C. Knox, portr., Clinedinst

Herman Bernstein (1876-1935), an American journalist, Jewish activist, and U.S. ambassador to Albania.

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian-American composer, pianist, and conductor. Artist: Unknown

Andrenio, pseudonym of Eduardo Gomez de Baquero (Madrid, 1866-1929). Spanish journalist and critic. In 1924 he was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Spain.

12/31/1931. Anatoly Lunacharsky.

Lluís Ferrer Clariana (1909-1970), historiador catalán.

Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen (1884-1963), Anonymous

America Resumes Relations With Spain: Mr. Stanton GriffisPresident Truman has appointed Mr. Stanton Griffis to be Ambassador of the United States to Spain. Mr. Griffis formerly represented his country in Argentina, Egypt, and 5 years ago, in Madrid. March 12, 1951. (Photo by Camera Press).

GIL ROBLES, JOSE MARIA. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. SALAMANCA 1898-1980. MINISTRO DE LA GUERRA EN EL AÑO 1933. AÑO 1934.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and leader of the Progressive Movement. A Southerner with a PhD in political science, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910. He was Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, and led his Democratic Party to win control of both the White House and Congress in 1912. A devoted Presbyterian, Wilson infused a profound sense of moralism into his internationalism, now referred to as 'Wilsonian'a contentious position in American foreign policy which obligates the United States to promote global democracy. For his sponsorship of the League of Nations, Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.

Photograph of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Dated 20th Century

JUAN ANTONIO DE ZUNZUNEGUI Y LOREDO 1901-1982. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Manuel Blancafort de Roselló (1897-1987), uno de los compositores catalanes más importantes del siglo XX. Año 1953.

Elliott Dexter, Publicity Portrait, Paramount Pictures, 1919

J. Hays Hammond

12/31/1944. Portrait of José Camón Aznar.

Amadeu Vives Roig (Collbató, 1871-Madrid, 1932). Compositor, co-fundador con Lluís Millet Pagés en 1891 del "Orfeó Català".

VILLALON , FERNANDO. POETA ESPAÑOL. ARCOS DE LA FRONTERA. 1881 - 1930 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

LINARES RIVAS , MANUEL. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL . SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. 1867-1938.

ALCALA ZAMORA NICETO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . PRIEGP 1877-1949. PRESIDENTE DE LA SEGUNDA REPUBLICA. REPRODUCCION FOTO. SFGP / © KORPA.

Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996), Anonymous

Sincerely Charles B. Adams

12/31/1939. An image of José María Cossío.

Dr. Dafoe. May 13, 1947.

Alfred Noyes.

Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) English conductor born in St Helens, Lancashire. Founder of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philomonic Orchestra.

Dr Couvée

Photograph of Miles Webster Thomas, Baron Thomas. Miles Webster Thomas, Baron Thomas (1897-1980) a Welsh businessman.

Portrait of Jerry Tarbot, Unknown, 1925 photograph Tarbots real name was a mystery: he suffered from memory loss due to Shell Shock. He was later charged: he would have feigned his memory loss and in reality be a counterfeit, deserter and car thief. ('Faker', 'Draft Dodger' and 'Automobile Thief') United States of America paper. photographic support gelatin silver print

DIEGO, GERARDO ESCRITOR ESPA¿OL. SANTANDER. 1896-1987 FOTO 1961.

AZAÑA, MANUEL , POLITICO ESPAÑOL . ALCALA DE HENARES 1880 - 1940.. Presidente del Gobierno de España (1931-1933, 1936) y Presidente de la Segunda República Española (1936-1939).. OLEO DE ENRIQUE SEGURA. ATENEO DE MADRID. SFGP / © KORPA.

Elsevier photo collection. Dr. H.J. Homps, doctor Borne, celebrates 25-year anniversary. 1930. Borne

MARAÑON , GREGORIO. MEDICO Y ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL .MADRID 1887-1960. FOTO EN MADRID EN EL AÑO 1958.

Mr. Ed. Hanlon Premier Qld. December 27, 1950. (Photo by David R. Jones )

Dr. Robert Fox Bacher -- Physicist -- Born Loudonville, Ohio, August 31, 1905.Educated: University of Michigan, B.S., 1926; Ph.D., 1930. National Research fellow, Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1930-31; M.I.T., 1931-32.Alfred Lloyd Fellow, University of Michigan, 1932-33 Instructor, Columbia U., 1934-35. Instructor, Cornell U., 1935-37; assistant professor, 1937-40; Associate Professor, 194-45; professor, 1945-, and director of Laboratory of Nuclear studies (on leave, 1940-45). January 13, 1947. (Photo by Wide World Photos).

12/31/1976. Juan Antonio Samaranch.

Ernest David Bergmann. Photograph by Bernhaim.

John Maynard Keynes 1945. John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, 1883 ñ 1946), British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics

12/31/1939. Ernesto Giménez gentleman.

NICETO ALCALA ZAMORA (1877/1949) PRESIDENTE DE LA II REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA DESDE ABRIL DE 1931. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Barcelona. SPAIN. NICETO ALCALA ZAMORA (1877-1949).

H. Torrès. Portrait of H. Torres. Portrait of H. Torres. Photography of Manuel Brothers. Gelato-silveric draw.

Robert Gerhard (Valls, 1896-Cambridge, 1970).Músico. Introdujo en España el método dodecatónico.

ALBERTO ALVAREZ INSUA.

District Manager Henry Palm.

RETRATO DE DON ANTONIO BESAGOITI RUIZ - PREDIDENTE DEL BANCO - 1963. Author: ENRIQUE SEGURA. Location: BANCO SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPAN. MADRID. SPAIN.

Frank L. Gillespie; Founder of Liberty Life Insurance Co.. Illustrations. 1925. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Chicago (Ill.), African American businesspeople, Liberty life Insurance Co.

***** De Rivera's On to DieDon Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera.Sentence of death was passed by the popular tribunal Alicante Yesterday upon Don Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera, leader of the Spanish Fascists, and son of the ***** dictator of Spain. His brother Miguel was condemned ***** 30 years imprisonment. They were accused of conspiracy ***** military rebellion. November 19, 1936.

JOSEF HOLBROOKE British musician, in 1923 Date: 1878 - 1938

05/31/1916. New Academic. The illustrious publicist Mr. Manuel Foronda, who yesterday took possession of a position at the academy of history.

12/31/1959. Don Julio Casares, perpetual secretary of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism

André Malraux 1901 1976. French novelist and Minister for Cultural Affairs. During the 1930s, Malraux was active in the anti-fascist Popular Front in France. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican forces in Spain, serving in and helping to organize the small Spanish Republican Air Force

Wilson

Oscar Laurentius Larsson Stins Ljusdal 1941-1948.

GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor, Nobel Prize 1909 Date: 1874 - 1937

Photograph of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) an American politician, academic and former President of the United States of America. Dated 20th Century

Portrait of Goebbels, Dr. Josef. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Anefo photo collection. Northern Day at Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam; meeting dedicated to three northern provinces; Drs. Bakkenist Chairman Associated Dutch Enterprises, Kop /. October 8, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

JUAN IGNACIO LUCA DE TENA (1897/1975) - COMEDIOGRAFO DIPLOMATICO Y PERIODISTA ESPAÑOL. JUAN IGNACIO LUCA DE TENA (1897-1975).

Leal Bombshell was dropped last night in a broadcast the strasbourg wireless station by Max Braun, the sear he leader. Ee announced that on December 2nd last sitter named Kosing visited him in Searbrochen with an Operation. Herr Braun However, declared that the only which he would support the return of the territory ***** the liberation of all political prisoners and the ***** Germany of conditions of legality.Max Braun, Photographed yesterday afternoon ***** mecting of ***** in Searbruckon. January 07, 1935. (Photo by Keystone)

Composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Anonymous

Anefo photo collection. Impresario Pieter Alferink. November 8, 1983

Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky (1901-1973), Anonymous

Photograph of Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885-1959) an English chemist, inventor, and Rector of Imperial College. Dated 20th Century

Thomas Woodrow Wilson photo dated 1917. 28th President of the United States, in office from 1913 to 1921. Born 1856 died 1924

United States: c. 1946 William E. B. DuBois, sociologist, scholar, and cofounder of the NAACP in 1909.

Israel Zangwill, 1864-1926. An English playwright and novelist. He dedicated his life to championing the cause of the oppressed. Jewish emancipation, women's suffrage, assimilationist, territorialism and Zionism were all subjects that he wrote on.

Israel Zangwill, 1864 1926. English novelist. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, English, Volume 9""

12/31/1939. In the image, Nobel Prize winner in medicine Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy.

Paul thomas mann. 1955.

MANUEL LUNA.

Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979), director cinematográfico francés.

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. W.J.H. Count Limburg Stirum. {1940-1945}. Britain, London

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