Vintage Cultural Icons

A collection of vintage images showcasing influential figures in unique settings, including musicians, actresses, and distinct moments in time.

New York, New York October 22, 1954Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., makes a television broadcast during his campaign for election as attorney general of New York.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG and BILLIE HOLIDAY in NEW ORLEANS (1947).

JEANNE MOREAU in DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1964) -Original title: LE JOURNAL D'UNE FEMME DE CHAMBRE-, directed by LUIS BUÑUEL.

Photograph of Suzan Ball (1934-1955) an American actress. Dated 20th Century

Elsevier photo collection. State visit Denmark Queen Juliana Koning Frederik carriage stateal banket Christiansborg Palace. 19 1953. Denmark, Copenhagen

W. C. FIELDS.

BURT LANCASTER and RITA HAYWORTH in SEPARATE TABLES (1958), directed by DELBERT MANN.

Elsevier photo collection. Queen Juliana private visit Danish royal family. Queen Juliana Koning Frederik arrival Gråsten, Jutland. July 30, 1954. Denmark, Jutland

New York, New York October 22, 1954Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., makes a television broadcast during his campaign for election as attorney general of New York.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

Pierre Marie Dorolle. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.

MARY PICKFORD; ERNST LUBITSCH.

LORETTA YOUNG and FRANCHOT TONE in THE UNGUARDED HOUR (1936), directed by SAM WOOD.

FRED ASTAIRE.

Black and white photograph of Pierre Laval (1883-1945), twice prime minister of France, in his office during the Vichy government; pictured with Fernand de Brinon (1885-1947), a French lawyer. During World War II (1939-1945).

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Janet Flanner, 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Chicago Police Lt. Anthony DeGrazio deplanes with a cheerful Tory Accardo, leader of the Chicago crime syndicate. DeGrazio was suspended from Chicago police force for accompanying Accardo on the European tour. Nov. 21, 1959.

DOLORES COSTELLO, AGNES MOOREHEAD, JOSEPH COTTEN, ANNE BAXTER and TIM HOLT in THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942), directed by ORSON WELLES.

Mrs. Mavis Grey. Who is to be called as a witness. October 31, 1946.

President Franklin Roosevelt riding in a car. March 1936.

Elsevier photo collection. Saturday, H.M. De Koningin received chairmen parties cabinet formation. Lord Koekoek van de BoerenParty brought advice leaves Palace House ten Bosch. 18 February 1967. Hague, South Holland

King Edward VIII with his brother (later King George VI), during the 1936 Abdication Crisis. This constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second.

Anefo photo collection. Pick up Josephine Baker in France. June 26, 1961. France

Beniamino Gigli, tenor, in an undated photo.

Adolphe Menjou, on-set of the Silent Film, "A Kiss in the Dark", Paramount Pictures, 1925

Elsevier photo collection. Series: Drakensteyn Castle inhabited Princess Beatrix. Princess Beatrix reads book. 1965. Lage Vuursche

Lee J. Cobb, Full-Length Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Come Blow Your Horn", Paramount Pictures, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Arrival at Schiphol of 17-year-old Italian singer Robertino. 17 February 1964. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

ERROL FLYNN.

W. C. FIELDS.

Bonnie Parker, 1933

Benjamin David 'Benny' Goodman (1909-1986) was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinettist and bandleader.

JAMES MASON in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959), directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

Van Heflin (1910-1971), actor de cine y teatro estadounidense, repasando un guión en su camerino.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins arriving at White House for Special Cabinet Meeting with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt due to the uncertainty in Europe, Washington, D.C., USA, Harris & Ewing, September 16, 1938

OLIVER HARDY; STAN LAUREL.

HUMPHREY BOGART and DOROTHY MACKAILL in LOVE AFFAIR (1932), directed by THORNTON FREELAND.

George Segal, Head and Shoulders Portrait, on-set of the Film, "Rollercoaster", Universal Pictures, 1977

BING CROSBY.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt Inaugurating New Series of Radio Talks, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, April 30, 1940

MARILYN MONROE. 1949.

BETTE DAVIS and MICHAEL CURTIZ in THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELISABETH AND ESSEX (1939), directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ.

PETER LORRE.

Anefo photo collection. Adjustment of Pope Pius XII in the St. Pieter in Rome announced the Requiemd. October 13, 1958. Italy, Rome

OLIVER HARDY; STAN LAUREL.

Jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, Gil Evans. He played an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis.

Igor Stavinsky at age 83. IGOR STRAVINSKY.

Poll photo collection. Visit to the German author Erich Maria Remarque and the American actress Paulette Goddard in their villa in the Swiss Porto Ronco. Remarque in conversation, sitting behind the wing in his living room in the villa in Porto Ronco. October 1961. Lago Maggiore, Switzerland

Sir Macpherson Robertson - Personalities. May 19, 1935. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

BETTE DAVIS.

JEAN RENOIR.

Leslie Howard, on-set of the Film, "Captured!", Warner Bros., 1933

THE BEATLES; GEORGE HARRISON; JOHN LENNON.

BETTE DAVIS; SPENCER TRACY.

REX HARRISON and JEANNE MOREAU in THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE (1964), directed by ANTHONY ASQUITH.

REX HARRISON and MARGARET RUTHERFORD in BLITHE SPIRIT (1945), directed by DAVID LEAN.

Elsevier photo collection. Prince Willem-Alexander overlooks photographers hall Drakensteyn Castle, meeting Princess Beatrix commission disabled children, build rehabilitation center Suriname, handed sum money. November 29, 1968. Lage Vuursche

Elsevier photo collection. Princess Beatrix Prince Claus attended congress M68, Dutch foundation artistic education Dronten (East Flevopolder). Princess Beatrix arrival. March 30, 1968. Dronten

President Franklin Roosevelt caught in a rain storm while campaigning in Charlotte, NC on Sept. 11, 1936. The photographer snapped FDR during a cough as he continued to greet citizen's who came out to see him.

Madrid, December 1958. Concha Velasco in a scene from Luis Escobar's magazine "Ven y ven... al Eslava".

W. C. FIELDS.

John F. Kennedy photographed in Tampa Florida on November 18, 1963. This was four days before his assassination in Dallas.

Andres segovia 1893-1987

Actor Phillip Terry, Publicity Portrait, Eugene Robert Richee for Paramount Pictures, 1941

A photograph of Bonnie Parker. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (1910-1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (1909-1934) American criminals who travelled around the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt Giving Speech to Wives of Members of Congress, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, January 1940

Gambling boss Meyer Lansky (1902-1983), led by a detective for booking on vagrancy charge at 54th Street police station, New York City, February 13, 1958.

Lady Grey, circa 1934, Wellington, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

Anefo photo collection. Broerts and sisters from singer Adamo on television, Adamo brother from television. April 20, 1964

Elsevier photo collection. Former President Truman visits Rembrandt exhibition Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. undated. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

President Calvin Coolidge stands in front of newsreel cameras. 1921 in Washington, D.C. (BSLOC_2015_15_149)

Jimmy Savo, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Once in a Blue Moon", Hecht-MacArthur Production, Paramount Pictures, 1935

ERROL FLYNN; LILY DAMITA.

Elsevier photo collection. Wedding Princess Margriet. Wedding ceremony town hall. foreground Queen Juliana Prince Bernhard. January 10, 1967. Hague, South Holland

U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins surveying Audience before beginning her Address before the Conference of Industry and Labor, Washington, D.C., USA, Harris & Ewing, December 11, 1936

Pres. Taft at Ellis Island

PLINIO-TV (1971).

Edward Prince of Wales, with Wallis Simpson in Kitzbuhel, a small Alpine town east of Innsbruck, in the western Austrian province of Tyrol. 1935. Edward VIII (1894 1972) King of the United Kingdom

LANA TURNER; HERMES PAN.

Jackie Gleason. November 28, 1952. (Photo by Look Magazine).

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Juliana on the Bordes. 1969. Baarn, Utrecht

MACK SENNETT.

Elsevier photo collection. Series 020-0131 020-0189: visit Swedish king Netherlands 25-4 27-4-1955. April 1955

1938 image of James Joyce getting into a taxi on the rue de l'Odeon in Paris. James Joyce (February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941) was an Irish modernist avant-garde writer. His books include Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

New U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge after death of U.S. President Warren G. Harding, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, August 5, 1923

Jean-Paul Sartre (l) and Simone de Beauvoir (r). Dakar, April 1950.

THOMAS ALVA EDISON.

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Bernhard. 1964

Poll photo collection. Visit to the German author Erich Maria Remarque and the American actress Paulette Goddard in their villa in the Swiss Porto Ronco. Remarque and his wife, Paulette Goddard, by the fireplace in their living room in the villa in Porto Ronco, interviewed by the photographer's wife, Hildegard Eschen. October 1961. Lago Maggiore, Switzerland

Mercedes Ruiz. Corral del Carbón. Granada 2005.

Elsevier photo collection. Princess Beatrix party Palace Drakensteyn. princesses Christina (l.) daisy court car party. December 21, 1964. Lage Vuursche

JEAN GABIN in THE GRAND ILLUSION (1937) -Original title: LA GRANDE ILLUSION-, directed by JEAN RENOIR.

MONTGOMERY CLIFT.

Anefo photo collection. Radiorede by Princess Beatrix T.G.V. Kingdom Day. December 8, 1957

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge viewing Solar Eclipse from White House Lawn, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, January 24, 1925

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyle (Argyll), 1848-1939. Date: c. 1910

Anefo photo collection. Princess Marijke 2 years. February 12, 1949

Louis Armstrong and wife Lil Armstrong. Los Angeles, October 1930.

Gregorio Sánchez, on the day of his farewell to the Ruedos in 1973.

American silent film director D. W. Griffith on the set of Intolerance. 1916

Mr. Howard Beale. April 22, 1951.

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