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Vintage Black and White Portraits

A collection of formal black-and-white studio portraits featuring men in suits, reflecting historical and dignified styles from the early to mid-20th century.

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K. W. Eriksson.
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Mr. J. C. Cassidy, Q.C. July 31, 1954.
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Neil Bell as a young man. Aged 36 - Author of The Son Of Richard Carden, Winding Road, Bredon & Sons, etc. February 28, 1955. (Photo by W. Collins, Sons & Co., Ltd.)
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Man; inscribed 'Mr Somerfeild' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits
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Dr. Giorgio De stefani - Halian Pres. Lawn Tennis Federation Was Tennis Player. December 3, 1934.
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James White. June 5, 1953. (Photo by John Aloysius Mulligan/Fairfax Media).
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Portrait of Samuel Hoare in his Times of Secretary of State for the Air, in 1922.
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Stephen Spender, Poet. March 26, 1953. (Photo by Ida Kar, Camera Press).
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AGUIRRE, JOSE ANTONIO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . BILBAO 1903 - 1960. REPRODUCCION FOTO. SFGP/KORPA.
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Charles Forte, Baron Forte (1908-2007) Hotelier, businessman and founder of the Forte Group
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Henry Edwards, pawnbroker, who loaned money to Philip Saffron to buy into the Hotel Phillip and is a witness in the Liquor Royal Commission. January 16, 1952.
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Chifley. Los. Benedict. Labor official for MacquarieFederal Election 1940. August 4, 1950.
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Gen. E. Guillaume Auguste - France. July 09, 1955.
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Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71. Lorenz Knorr (SPD later DFU) d. 2018, DEU, Germany, Europe
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Spencer Tracy. Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 - June 10, 1967) was an American actor, known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor from nine nominations.
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Anefo photo collection. Departure from Minister Van der Klaauw from Foreign Affairs from Schiphol to Greece. Minister Van der Klaauw. May 28, 1979. Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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Man; inscribed 'Mr E. W. Thomas' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits
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RETRATO DE JULIO ROMERO DE TORRES (1874-1930). Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. CORDOBA. SPAIN.
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Dr. William Beebe. March 19, 1931.
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Britain's New Cabinet Meets -- The Arrival of Captain Harry Crookshank, The new minister of Health.Mr. Churchill's Cabinet met for the first time at No. 10 downing street this afternoon. October 30, 1951. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.)
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L.A.G. Strong - Novelist. October 08, 1950. (Photo by Rupert Crew Ltd.).
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Anefo photo collection. Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, "Father" of the Atomic Bomb (head). August 3, 1970
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Anefo photo collection. Ministers British Cabinet 1945. James Chuter Ede (Minister of the Interior (Home Secretary)) .. August 1945. Great Britain
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Sir Rudolph Albert Peters. Photograph by A.C. Barrington Brown.
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Churchill makes Cherwell paymaster General.Lord Cherwell, old friend and last war adviser to Mr Winston Churchill, has been appointed Paymaster General.Churchill's ***** ministry.This is the post he held from 1942-15 under Churchill during last war. October 30, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto)
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Wm. T. Whittemore
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Vintage photograph. Man in suit and tie smiling at camera.
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Mr Pilgrim, August 1935, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.
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Anefo photo collection. Jhr. m.L. De Brauw, chairman Steering Social Discussion Energy Policy, office Hague. Portrait. September 23, 1981. Hague, South Holland
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Man; inscribed 'Mr H. M. Maversoft' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits
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American Personalities: Urbanus Edmund Baughman --Chief of the United States Secret Service. March 29, 1955. (Photo by Camera Press).
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CARL THEODOR DREYER.
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Man; inscribed 'E J Walker Esquire' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits
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Nathan Goldberg wanted in connection mad gunman London shooting.Nathan Goldberg ex Irish guardsman shot & wounded their men, and ***** & then about himself England. May 20, 1954. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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Everest Conquerer arrives -- Sir Edmund Hillary displays a wide grin on his arrival at Mascot. August 5, 1953. (Photo by Ronald Leslie Stewart/Fairfax Media).
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Professor K.C. Wheare, the Victorian Rhodes Scholar of one of the two Dominion members of the Rhodes Trust, ***** Fremantle today in the liner Orcades. March 10, 1950.
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DAG HAMMARSKJOLD,  1950s
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Anefo photo collection. Reproduction of a portrait of the Romanian statesman and member of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-dej. October 14, 1966
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Spencer Tracy, (1900-1967), two time Academy Award winning American film actor, 20th century. Artist: Unknown
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British politician, Sir Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977), pictured when he was Foreign Secretary.     Date: October 1951
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976) by Anonymous  /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait
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Man; inscribed 'Dr Graham Robertson' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits
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RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Bernhard. 1956
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Spiro Agnew (1918-1996), 39th Vice-President of the United States of America
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Adolf Hitler, German Nazi leader, 1923. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) became leader of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party in 1921. After an unsuccessful coup attempt in Munich in 1923, and briefly imprisoned, Hitler sought power by democratic means. His nationalistic and anti-semitic message quickly gained support in Germany which was humiliated by defeat in World War I and the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles. From the late 1920s, Germany suffered from economic collapse. Hitler came to power in 1933, and persuaded the Reichstag (parliament) to grant him dictatorial powers. He crushed the opposition within his own party and throughout German society, and set about re-arming the country. Hitler's aggressive policy of territorial expansion to secure 'lebensraum' (living space) for the German people eventually plunged the world into the Second World War. The photographer is unknown.
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An explorer on one of the world's epic voyages Professor Griffith Taylor went with Scott to the Antarctic.Prof. Thomas Griffith Taylor, DSc, BE, BA, FRGS, geologist with Scott's expedition to the Antarctic, became Professor of Geography, Chicago Uni. November 26, 1954.
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Viscount Galway En Route HomeViscount Galway, Retiring Governor General of New Zealand, Shown at Los Angeles Harbor, Feb. 7, After Arrival by Clipper En Toute To England. After crossing Canada, He Boards Another Clipper for the Trans-Alantic flight. His Family Preceded him Last Month. March 15, 1941. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)
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KENNETH BOULDING EWART - 1910 - ECONOMISTA INGLES.
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The Hillary smile is now is now as famous as the exploit that placed it on the front pages of the World's Press. Promptly knighted for his feat, Sir Edmund holds a souvenir of his climb. September 9, 1953.
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Here For Commonwealth Talks - The South African Minister of Justice, Charles Swart, who is in London for the Commonwealth talks on the 31st. Photographed today at his London hotel. January 19, 1955.
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Philip Snowden, lst Viscount Snowden (1858-1937) British Labour (Socialist) statesman. Photograph.
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Anefo photo collection. Minister Luns (with straw hat) from vacation at Schiphol. August 17, 1966. Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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Anefo / London photo collection. Portraits / Persons / Anefo London series. Mr. S.G.M. Baron Voorst Voorst (former consul Bayonne-France). March 1942. Britain, London
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Eddie ChapmanHe wrote "The Eddie Chapman Story" which describes his wartime experiences when the Germans dropped Chapman, a British subject, over Britain for the purpose of doing espionage work for them; Chapman immediately got in touch with the British Intelligence Service and was thus able to use his German connections to the advantage of Britain. December 02, 1953. (Photo by Mark Gerson, Camera Press)
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DKP functionaries in the area of the DKP children's organisation Junge Pioniere (JP) on 22.06.1974 in Dortmund.Ernst Buschmann, Germany, Europe
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ED TOLAND-TESORERO DE LA UNITED FRUIT-DIMITE EN 1968 Y SE SUICIDO.
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TOSCANINI , ARTUR. MUSICO ITALIANO . 1867 - 1957. REPRODUCCION FOTO.
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Admiral Richard E. Byrd before his expedition to the Antarctic. He's wearing a 'flying suit' of reindeer skin, 1939
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FISCHER, HANS. FISICO ALEMAN.1881-1945.
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USA: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1945. Photographic portrait, 1944
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British Naval Chiefs:Rear-Admiral A.N.C Bingley, O.B.E. -- Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Staff (Air). September 20, 1954. (Photo by Camera Press).
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Portrait of Floyd L. Thompson NASA Langley Center Director 1960-1968. Died in 1976
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Photograph of Ernest Marples after a trip to America to study traffic. Alfred Ernest Marples, Baron Marples, PC, (1907-1978) a British Conservative politician, Postmaster General and Minister of Transport
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RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Bernhard. zd}
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Erik Häll. Photo in February 1946. Erik Häll. Foto i februari 1946.
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OSKAR WERNER in FAHRENHEIT 451 (1966), directed by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT.
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Brigadier John Enoch Powell, 1912 ñ 1998. English politician, classical scholar, linguist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP, 1950ñ74), Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974ñ87), and Minister of Health (1960ñ63). He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made a controversial speech on immigration, now widely referred to as the 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
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Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954), actor de cine estadounidense.
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J. Gilmore. October 15, 1948.
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Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71, DEU, Germany, Europe
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Nils Johansson (Nils-Nils Nils). Nils Johansson (Nils-Nils Nils).
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An Unconventional Study of the King, enjoying a pipe during his visit to the Bay of Martinac.  September 07, 1936.
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Anefo photo collection. Portrait of mr. The Nijs. October 27, 1966
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Henry Ford (1863-1947) American engineer and automobile manufacturer. Credit: Ford/World History Archive.
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Anefo photo collection. Mr. K. Francet. General Secretary Dutch-Indian Government and Director of Government Information Service. February 5, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Portrait of Josef Anton Bruckner, 1824 - 1896, Austrian composer and organist, digitally edited according to a photograph by Anton Huber, 1890
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New York, New York:  1922 A portrait of Clifford Holland, the engineer and designer of the Holland Tunnel between New York City and New Jersey.
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Mr. T.W. Garrett, of Sydney, who played in the first Test Match between England and Australian. March 1, 1937.
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Man; inscribed 'Mr Renner' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits
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"Torch" Inquiry Dudley Englisch General Manager of Torch Newspaper. July 18, 1955. (Photo by Stuart William MacGladrie/Fairfax Media).
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Joseph P. Kennedy, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, probably at the wedding of Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy / Toni Frissell., Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell
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His Majesty King George VI: Royal Silver Wedding photograph. April 20, 1948. (Photo by Baron, Camera Press).
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Mr. Ken Williams son of George Williams, Sydney business man missing on Joy Itov. November 12, 1955.
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Adolf Hitler 1889-1945. German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party driving a car. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
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Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900-1981), Anonymous
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Lord Dudley Gordon. June 17, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)
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Man; inscribed 'Mr. W. P. Ward' Nitrate negatives, gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits
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Ben-Gurion Arrives in London -- Mr. Ben-Gurion on arrival at London airport Heathrow.Mr.Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, arrived in London today after flying from Palestine. With the forthcoming Palestine conference opening shortly speculation has arisen whether there will be unofficial talks between the British government and the Jews while the official talks with the Arabs are in progress. January 21, 1947.
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Mr. Clarence D. Chamberlain. August 17, 1936. (Photo by LNA)
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Mieczysaw Drobner, activist of the Polish United Workers' Party and Mayor of Wroclaw ca. 1930-1935.
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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) and Strelka, Anonymous
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Anefo photo collection. 35 Repro's topical film truth knows no limits. November 3, 1949
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Film still of Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) from 'The Heroes of Telemark'.
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Stephen Spender, poet and critic, who frequently broadcasts in BBC home and overseas programmes. June 18, 1947.
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