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Vintage headshots of notable politicians from the early 20th century, showcasing classic suits and serious expressions.

A. P. Glannini. June 05, 1949. (Photo by The Sunday Herald).

12/31/1949. The Politician Miguel Maura Gamazo.

D. Paulian. Photograph by Julietta.

M. Chautemps - New French Premier. January 09, 1934. (Photo by The Central News Ltd)

12/31/1934. A portrait of Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena.

02/01/1934. The president of "Working Force", Leon Jouhaux, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1951.

Alexander Gavrilovich Shliapnikov (August 30, 1885, Murom - September 2, 1937) was a Russian communist revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union leader. He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader of one of the primary opposition movements inside the Russian Communist Party during the decade of the 1920s.

A. P. Glannini. June 05, 1949. (Photo by The Sunday Herald).

Prof. H.E. Crampton

P.R. Pyne 2d

Husayn Fakhri al-Khalidi was mayor of Jerusalem from 1934 to 1937 and the 13th Prime Minister of Jordan in 1957. On 23 June 1935 Khalidi founded the Reform Party and was subsequently the party's representative to the Arab Higher Committee

American Actor Adolphe Menjou, Head and Shoulder Publicity Portrait, Postcard, 1920's

Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) German fascist dictator.

Portrait of mr. B. Heyman, born 1871, professor for the fund for Indological Studies at the Utrecht University (1925-1934), died 1934. Borst statue from the front.

05/13/1909. Don Tomas Trenor, president of the Executive Committee and Soul of the Exhibition.

Adolphe Menjou, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Café Metropole", 20th Century Fox, 1937

Anefo photo collection. HR. Tripp (J. A.) Oud Director of Dutch Bank. September 22, 1961

Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer, c1920. Artist: Unknown

Photograph of Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) second Prime Minister of Israel and Foreign Minister in the Mapai Government. Dated 20th Century

Albert Strauss

Yosuke Matsuoka - Japan Foreign Minister. July 18, 1940. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).

Dr. J. Madriz

Photographic portrait of Edgar Istel (1880-1948) a German composer and musicologist. Dated 20th Century

Emil Kleinmann photographs

Spanish civil war : Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar

EDWIN S. PORTER.

Miguel Alemán Valdés (September 29, 1902 May 14, 1983) served as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660534

Guy Pocock, English writer and journalist, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660472

Actor Adolphe Menjou, Publicity Portrait, 1940's

'Leon Daudet', c1893. Artist: Aaron Gerschel.

CARLOS SAN MARTIN.

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan 1895 21 October 1978. Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the mandates of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev

MARTINEZ SIERRA , GREGORIO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1881 - 1947.

Arnulfo R. Gomez

Gabriel D'Annunzio - Italy March 13, 1938.

12/31/1929. Portrait of Eduardo Marquina.

12/31/1961. The journalist Lorenzo López Sancho.

Thurgood Marshall, ca. 1935-1940. He was influenced by Charles Hamilton Houston at Howard University Law School, receiving his degree in 1933. He represented his first case for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1934, and joined its legal staff in 1936 (BSLOC_2020_2_84)

Francis Brett Young (1844-1954) British novelist and poet. From a series of cards of 'Famous British Authors' (London, 1937).

Portrait of Luigi Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta (1873-1933), Duke of Abruzzi, photograph by Bertieri of Turin, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVI, No 8, February 19, 1899.

Adolphe Menjou, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Sing, Baby Sing", 20th Century Fox, 1936

JAMES FRANCK - American-German physicist (worked on energy and US atom bomb in WW2) Date: 1882 - 1964

Antoni Maria Sbert Massanet (1901-1980), político catalán nacido en Mallorca, uno de los miembros fundadores del partido Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, consejero de cultura y gobernación de la Generalitat de Catalunya en Junio de 1937.

RETRATO DE EUGENIO NOEL (1885-1936) - ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 -1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by A. Dupont

JOSEPH DUVEEN FIRST BARON DUVEEN OF MILLBANK (1869 - 1939) British art dealer Date: 1933

Paul Deschanel

S.M. Falstein M.P. November 01, 1949.

The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini in Oberammergau, Germany, in 1922.

CHARLEY CHASE.

EUGEN SANDOW exponent of physical culture Date: 1867 - 1925

J. Rosenwald

Dean Acheson was US Secretary of State during the second term of the Truman administration. Ca. 1949.

Japanese Sink Four U.S. Ships:Mr. Joseph C. Grew, the U.S. Ambassador in Tokyo.Japanese warplanes to-day bombed and sunk the United States gunboat Panay and three other American ships in the River Yangtse, near Nanking, the Chinese capital. The total death roll is not known yet, but it is feared to be heavy Mr. Mirota, Japan's Foreign Minister, has personally called on Mr. Joseph C. Grew, U.S. Ambassador in Tokyo, and expressed his regrets for the sinkings. December 13, 1937. (Photo by Topical Press).

General Francisco Franco (1892-1975) during the Spanish Civil War

12/31/1912. New Academic. The award-winning sculptor Mr. Miguel Ángel Trilles, whose reception at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando was Verified Yesterday.

04/02/1935. Portrait of Niceto Alcalá Zamora.

12/31/1939. Portrait of Joaquín Rodrigo.

12/31/1939. Portrait of Don Jose Ruiz Arana, Duke of Sanlúcar the Mayor and ambassador in London.

Sholem Asch (1 November 1880 - 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States

04/30/1922. The heroic and ill-fated Lieutenant Colonel, chief of the Regulars of Ceuta, D. Santiago González Tablas, died in the taking of Tazarut. Photo: Luque -.

Carlo Carrà, Anonymous

ALVAREZ, MELQUIADES. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . GIJON 1864 - 1936. REPRODUCCION FOTO. SFGP / © KORPA.

10/31/1911. Mr. López Ferrandis, a student of the law faculty who, during the visit of the captain general to the Valencian Students, gave a very eloquent speech with elevated and patriotic tones.

Mr. C. J. Earl, Labour member for Fairfield.Mr. Earl, ***** Labour M.L.A. for Fairfield a former school teacher and the father of five school age children, said the area embracing Sydney's outer western suburbs was currently the most in the state for delinquency and vandalism. January 20, 1953.

12/31/1949. Portrait of Miguel Maura.

Minister of Labour visits South Eastern Division. The Rt.Hon. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, Left Victoria this morning to visit the South Eastern Division of the Minitary. His first stop was at Chichester, where he visited the Land Settlement Association's estate and instructional centre at Sidlesham. September 20, 1937. (Photo by Keystone).

Paul Lukas, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Address Unknown", Columbia Pictures, 1944

BROGLIE , LOUIS FISICO FRANCES . 1892 - 1960 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

JOSE IBANEZ MARTIN (1896-1969). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPANIEN.

12/31/1939. Portrait of Julio camba.

FRANCISCO SALGUEIRO POETA MELILLENSE, PREMIO ADONAIS POR LA OBRA SOLO CON MIS PALABRAS.

Louis de Broglie, French physicist, 1933. Artist: Unknown

William F. Friedman (1891- 1969), american cryptologist.

HENRI-LOUIS BERGSON French philosopher Date: 1859 - 1941

1945. Portrait of Francisco Franco.

GEORGE EDWARD STANHOPE MOLYNEUX HERBERT 5th Earl of Carnarvon; excavated tomb of Tutankhamen (1922) with Howard Carter; died from a mosquito bite. Date: 1923

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm Willinger Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm Willinger Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660474

Man; inscribed 'Mr G. Harrison' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Hitler circa 1922/23

Groucho Marx (1890-1977), Actor

Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979), German-born British biochemist. Chain, with Howard Florey, purified penicillin. He shared the 1945 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Florey and with Alexander Fleming who had first discovered the antibiotic.

Adolphe Menjou, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Stage Door", RKO Radio Pictures, 1937

12/31/1929. In Paris, during his most acute phase as an active surrealist.

Adolphe Menjou, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "The Hucksters", MGM, 1947

William Faulkner, (1897-1962), American author, .

Mr. John DewarNew portrait study of, Mr. John Dewar the famous race-horse owner.He won the two Thousand Guineas and the Derby in 1931 with the colt "Cameronian," which he inherited with all his other horses from his uncle the late Lord Dewar. November 08, 1937.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1874-1929, Austrian novelist and poet, digital edited according to a photograph by Eduard Wasow, 1927

BERGAMIN GARCIA, FRANCISCO POLITICO Y JURISTA ESPAÑOL. MALAGA 1855-1937 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Photograph of Artur da Costa e Silva (1899-1969) Brazilian Army General and second President of Brazil. Dated 1965

JOSE LUIS LOPEZ VAZQUEZ.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 -1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by A. Dupont

Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. Jan De Hartog, writer. July 27, 1943

09/30/1912. The Crime of Granada. Lulio Martin, murderer of the tiple Mrs. Emilia Portillo.

Actor Jack Holt, head and shoulders Publicity Portrait, Unidentified Artist, 1920's

Attlee's Broadcast -- Attlee, the labour party leader, yesterday evening ***** on the forthcoming election, which was broadca ***** studios. Attlee at the microphone, during *****. October 29, 1935. (Photo by Keystone).

William Somerset Maugham, British author of novels, plays and short stories, 1927. Artist: Anon

Groucho Marx 1890-1977 Actor

Joseph Conrad, 1923

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