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Formal portraits of 20th century political leaders and figures, depicted in suits, each image conveying authority and significance in historical contexts.

Sir WILLIAM HUTT CURZON WYLLIE administrator in India, assassinated by a student Maden Llal Dhingra whom he had befriended. 1848 - 1909

Portrait.What and the foreman in the Smedan at Österby use Johan de Faire. Born 14 March 1868.Dood 2 May 1932.

Louis B. Rowe. Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853 - 1943)

VALVERDE , JOAQUIN. COMPOSITOR ESPAÑOL. BADAJOZ 1846 - 1910 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

John Thomson. Photograph by A. Swan Watson.

George W. Cable, 1844-1925. American author and social reformer. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, American, Volume 16' (1844-1925).

Portrait of Siegfried Ochs (1858-1929; conductor and composer). Photography (World postcard)

Portrait of the poet, journalist, and novelist Anatole France (1844-1924), Nadar, Gaspard-Félix (1820-1910)

Alexander Konstantinovich Vinogradov, member of the II State Duma from the Akmola region. ca. 1907

Ewen Hay Cameron Made 1869 United Kingdom. Albumen print . Julia Margaret Cameron

Viscount of Ouro Preto, last President of the Council of Ministers of the Empire of Brazil.

Anton BRUCKNER, 1824-96 Austrian composer, photograph

VICTOR PRADERA. Location: ATENEO-COLECCION. MADRID. SPANIEN.

PITTALUGA , GUSTAVO. COMPOSITOR ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1906 - 1976 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Photographic portrait of Mikhail Rodzianko (1859-1924) a Russian politician and Statesman. Dated 20th Century

CHARLES THOMSON REES WILSON 1869/1959 PREMIO NOBEL DE FISICA EN 1927. CREADOR DE LA FOTOGRAFIA EN MOVIMIENTO.

Francis Mitchell Caird. Photograph by A. Swan Watson.

Ewen Hay Cameron. Julia Margaret Cameron; English, 1815-1879. Date: 1869. Dimensions: 31.8 x 25.5 cm (image and paper); 58.3 x 46.4 cm (mount). Albumen print. Origin: United Kingdom. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Elsevier photo collection. Jhr. Van Kinschot, chairman Antiquity Tiel writer archaeological studies, died. 1921. Gelderland, Tiel

Thos. Hardy

Dr Crippen, an American citizen, lived at 39 Hilldrop Cresent, Camden, London. He was accused of murdering his wife when she disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Crippen had told friends that his wife, Belle Elmore, had died due to illness, but when first questioned by police he told them she had eloped with a lover. The police returned to Hilldrop Cresent to question Crippen a second time only to discover that he and his mistress, Miss Le Neve had disappeared. Detectives searched a

JOHN JACOB LOWENTHAL Hungarian-English chess player Date: 1810 - 1876

GEORGES BERNANOS, ESCRITOR FRANCES AUTOR DE BAJO LA SOMBRA DE SATAN.

Sir Edward Elgar, (1857-1934), English composer, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Photograph of Dimitrios Gounaris (1866-1922), who served as the Prime Minister of Greece. Dated 1915

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Alfred W. Adler (February 7, 1870 - May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology

Bust of Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906-1945) the youngest Soviet general of the army. Dated 20th Century

Photograph of Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee. Dated 1930

Ned Hanlon (baseball).

Abelardo de Carlos (1822-1884). Spanish businessman and writer. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1884.

Elsevier photo collection. Prof. C.H.H. Spronck. Professor Pathologogy Utrecht director Pathological Institute. 1919. Utrecht

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. Gratieux , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Gratieux). shipwrecked image, portrait, man, Human being, Mr Gratieux France, Boulogne s ., S, Portraits, mr Gratieux

Sir Rickman John Godlee. Photograph.

Photograph of Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) a British iron moulder and Labour politician.

March 1918. Mr. Natalio Rivas, new Undersecretary of Public Instruction - Approximate date.

Harry Plate

Gabriel Fauré, 1845 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Pierre Petit, 1905 Gabriel Fauré, 1845 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Pierre Petit, 1905 Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21911376

Eduard von Bauernfeld, poet, Josef Széky -, photographer

William Alexander Young. Photograph by Laing.

Francis Planté (French pianist, 1839-1934). Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon); French, 1820-1910. Date: 1865-1873. Dimensions: 23.9 × 19 cm (image/paper); 34 × 26 cm (mount). Woodburytype, from the periodical "Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique" (1878), volume 5. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Georgy Dimitrov began his working life as a boy. In adolescence, he gets acquainted with the works of Marx and Engels, read Lenin's Iskra. Soon Dimitrov became a staunch Marxist, conducting revolutionary activities in the ranks of the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Labour Party (close socialists). A talented orator and publicist, he shows himself to be an outstanding leader and organizer of workers. Dimitrov acts as one of the founders of the Communist Party of Bulgaria.

Cecil Rhodes, c. 1890, advanced the British colonial interests in South Africa. He leveraged the fortune made in diamond and gold mining, to consolidate and expand British Empire north in to present day Zimbabwe (BSLOC_2017_20_41)

Portrat Boris Y. Polonsky, son of the poet Yakov Polonsky by Russian Photographer /The State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow/1912/Silver Gelatin Photography/Russia/Portrait

John K. Tarbox , Mayors, Tarbox, John Kemble, 1838-1887. Lawrence

Knighted In The Building He Controls: Sir Cecil H. Smith, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1909. 'After the opening ceremony, performed by the King, at the new Victoria and Albert Museum last Saturday, the Director, Mr. Cecil H. Smith, was summoned by the Lord Chamberlain to come forward and receive the honour of knighthood. He knelt before his Majesty, who touched him on each shoulder with a sword, and on his rising both the King and Queen shook hands with him and offered their congratulations. Sir Cecil Smith was formerly at the British Museum, as Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiqui

Martínez de Irujo y del Alcázar, Carlos Manuel "Duque de Sotomayor" (Londres, 1846-1909). Aristócrata, Grande de España, Sumiller de Corps y Guarda-sellos de S.M. Católica.

06/30/1912. From the Valencia tram catastrophe. Mr. Juan Bautista Doñate, teacher of the Municipal Band, Very Seriously Injured, Whom Not Trusted to Save.

Portrait of Dr. Frank Hay, 1925, Motueka, by Mina Arndt. Bequest of Mrs Frank Hay, 1946.

GIACOMO PUCCINI Italian composer

David Lloyd George, 1863 to 1945, British politician, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not stated,

Samuel Barnett Schryver. Photograph.

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, 1854 to 1925. British statesman and colonial administrator. From the book South Africa and the Transvaal, Volume 1 of Louis Creswicke, published in 1900., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

Horace Everett Hooper, publisher of the 10th, 11th and 12th Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Elsevier photo collection. Mr. Kappeyne van de Coppello (1854-1920), Senate, former Provincial Executive Noord-Holland, lawyer Amsterdam, died. 1920. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

D. C. Zuidam / board member from 1936

'The Marquis of Dufferin, K.P., G.C.B., &c. - Viceroy of India', c1884, (1901). Creator: Elliott & Fry.

CAYETANO LUCA DE TENA Y ALVAREZ OSORIO 1862/1911 POLITICO.

Senator J. F. C. Refardt "from the folder" Hamburg men and women at the beginning of the XX. Century ". Part of the folder" Hamburg men and women at the beginning of the XX. Century - Camera Pictures - Recorded, Copper Etched and Printed by Rudolph Dührkop Hamburg 1905 ". State state view Hamburg, collection of photography history

British actor Yorke Stephens in 'One Change', 1886. Artist: Barraud

Prince August Wilhelm. November 21, 1939.

James Matthew BARRIE, 1860-1937, Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan

CANALEJAS, JOSE POLITICO ESPAÑOL. EL FERROL 1854-1912 PRESIDENTE DEL GOBIERNO EN EL AÑO 1910 OLEO DE JOSE LLASERA COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS. MADRID. Author: JOSÉ LLASERA DIAZ (1882-1943).

William R. Day, U.S. Secretary of State, April 28, 1898 to September 16, 1898

Vladimir Ilych Lenin in his Work Cabinet in Kremlin. Moscow. 4 October, 1922 by Otsup, Pyotr Adolfovich (1883-1963)/Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1922/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

J. Aenaut; Paul Nadar (French, 1856 - 1939); 1904; Gelatin silver print; 22.5 x 16.7 cm (8 7,8 x 6 9,16 in.)

David James Hamilton. Photograph.

Ygnacio Bronollas i.e. Bonillas

Portrait of Marco Praga (1862-1929), Italian playwright, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LVI, No 6, February 10, 1929.

Portrait of Fernand Lesseps. Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, Paris 1833-1914 Sèvres). Dimensions: sheet: 21 1/16 x 14 3/16 in. (53.5 x 36 cm)plate: 19 3/8 x 12 3/8 in. (49.2 x 31.4 cm). Sitter: Portrait of Ferdinand Lesseps (French, 1805-1894). Date: 1850-1914. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of the Senator Vittorio Scialoja (1856-1993), new Minister of foreign affairs, from the magazine L'Illustrazione Italiana, year XLVI, no 50, December 14, 1919.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author, 1912.Artist: Emil Otto Hoppe

David Lloyd George, (1863 - 26 March 1945) Welsh statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. He was the last Liberal to hold the post of prime minister and held the office through the last two years of the First World War, leading the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Dr. Edvard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia from 1935-1938 and again from 1940-1948. - (BSLOC_2015_1_38)

J. Aenaut. Paul Nadar (French, 1856 - 1939)

Jules Emile Frederic Massenet 1842-1912. French composer. After a photo of Nadar, pseudonym from Gaspard-Felix Tournachon 1820-1910., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Photographic portrait of Roald Engelbreth Gravning Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage and reach the South Pole. C.1908

LAUREANO FIGUEROLA (1816/1903) SENADOR POR MADRID DESDE 1871 - DECIMO TERCER PRESIDENTE DEL SENADO - SIGLO XIX. Author: EDUARDO BALACA YOREJAS-CANSECO (1840-1914). Location: SENADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Robert E. Peary (1856-1920), American Explorer, head and shoulders Portrait, George N. Rockwood, 1896

Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), Italian poet, photograph by Robbi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 15, April 14, 1912.

Robert Fulton Weir. Photograph by Pach Brothers.

Italy, Milan, Portrait of Italian poet, composer and librettist Arrigo Boito (1842 - 1918)

LLUIS DOMENECH Y MUNTANER - ARQUITECTO ESPAÑOL. LLUIS DOMENECH Y MUNTANER (1850-1923).

Vladimir Lenin in the Kremlin at a sound recording apparatus (his speech is recorded on a gramophone record). 1919. Moscow.

Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War for William Howard Taft, 1911-13. He later was Sec. of State for Hebert Hoover (1929-33) and Sec. of War for FDR during World War II (BSLOC_2017_2_118)

Photographic portrait of Theodore William Richards (1868-1928) the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dated 20th century

Inazo Nitobe

Photographic portrait of Jules Massenet (1842-1912) a French composer of the Romantic era. Dated 19th Century

I. Foulsham who trained Malua for Mr. J.O. Inglis, prominent Victorian owner. October 17, 1949.

Max Liebermann (18471935) German painter. 1927 portrait of Paul von Hindenburg 1847-1934, Field marshal during World War One and second president of the Weimar Republic (1925-34)

Portrait Vicente Blasco Ibañez'. Museum: Ateneo, MADRID, SPAIN.

12/31/1894. Portrait of Luis Eytier Benítez. Artillery captain, one of the officers who most distinguished themselves in the Marahuit action (Mindano).

Mark Twain, psuedonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. American writer and humorist. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, American, Volume 15'

JJ Thomson, British physicist, c1896-c1915. Artist: Unknown.

Dr. Karl Lansteiner, prominent scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize, has sued the publishers of Who's Who in American Jwery for $100,000 to forestall inclusion of his name, claiming that he had been a Roman Catholic for a half century. He stated that his son, Ernest, 19, would 'be shocked and humiliated to know that he had Jewish ancestry.' 4/5/37

Gabriel Faure(1845-1924). French composer, pianist and organist. Portrait. Photography.

MOYANO , CLAUDIO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . BOVEDA DE TORO 1809 - 1890. OLEO DE J . G . MARTINEZ. ATENEO DE MADRID.

Vladimir Lenin Portrait. 1920. Moscow. Photographer - P.S. Zhukov

Hon. John E. Bush, Receiver of United States Lands at Little Rock, Arkansas.. Portraits, Illustrations. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Slavery , United States, Little Rock (Ark.), Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), School principals

The Rt. Hon, W M Hughes/Prime Minister to Australia/ 1915 to 1923

MOYANO , CLAUDIO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . BOVEDA DE TORO 1809 - 1890. OLEO DE J . G . MARTINEZ. ATENEO DE MADRID.

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