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Vintage Male Formal Portraits

Early 20th-century portraits of men in formal attire, showcasing classic styles and an air of professionalism from a bygone era.

N.E. Kendall

Dr. Rich'd Kovacs

Geo. Bakhmetieff

Josiah O. Wolcott

Dick Ferris.

Capt. Rufus Montgall

Henry A. Wise

Duke of Sutherland

Meier Steinbrink.

Bishop W.F. Oldham, portrait bust

William Randolph Hearst, ca. early 1900s

Sir Douglas Mawson

Dr. Gustav Renker

12/31/1909. Portrait of José Martínez Ruiz «Azorín».

Martin W. Littleton.

Percy Grainger

Mr B Guggenheim. Passengers on RMS Titanic. Photograph of Mr B Guggenheim, one of the American millionaires lost on the Titanic. He was the fifth of the seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim and a member of the famous family of bankers, miners and smelters. Mr Guggenheim was born in 1865. Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and later sank on April 15th, 1912 off the coast of New Foundland after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England

James M. Fraser (W.A.) Senator. October 07, 1941.

A.A. Murphree

Mr Simmonds, 16 September 1935, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

Germany Before the First World War 1890 - 1914 Autographed portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II's eldest son and heir, Crown Prince Wilhelm, aged 19, wearing civilian clothing.

Ralph Pulitzer

Hyland, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Chas. Battell Loomis

Dr James Allan Thomson, 1912 - 1926, by James McDonald.

Francisco Largo Caballero (1869-1946), Spanish politician and trade unionist. Location: FUNDACION PABLO IGLESIAS. MADRID. SPAIN.

William J. Bryan, from the Heroes of the Spanish War series (T175). Dimensions: Sheet: 2 5/8 × 1 7/16 in. (6.6 × 3.7 cm). Publisher: Issued by Kinney Brothers (American) . Date: ca. 1901.Trade cards from the "Heroes of the Spanish War" series (T175), issued ca. 1901. Although not inscribed on the cards, the set is believed to have been issued by Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

B.B. Tillman, Jr., G. Buck, Washington, D.C.

H.M. Sage

David Graham Phillips

HAROLD CLAYTON UREY American chemist Date: 1893 - 1981

Judge J.W. Westcott i.e., Wescott

Sir Gilbert Garnsey & The Hatry Case -- Harty trial. Sir Gilbert Garnsey, accountant, to give expert evidence.Latest studio portrait of, Sir Gilbert Garnsey, the accountant, who gave evidence at the Gufldhall, when Clarence Hatry and his three associates was committed for trial.Sir Gilbert estimated the deficiences in Hatry Companies at £13,500,000. January 23, 1930.

Man; inscribed 'Mr A. J. Hutchinson' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Albert H. Harris

Eugene Newman

Lee J. Rountree

Raymond Robins

Q. Moheno

12/31/1899. William Gibbs McAdoo, United States Secretary of the Treasury, married the daughter of Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States.

Lucy 1/4 6, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Portrait photography of Captain E Hartelius Design: Portrait photography of Captain E Hartelius, curator of F 3 Östgöta fly fleet 1933-1938. Framed photo.

Chas. Klein

Rev. W.R. Huntington, portr.

Count E. Von Reventlow

Franklin Roosevelt.

Alden Freeman, Pach Bros, N.Y.

Wm. Barnes, Jr., cameo portrait

Wm. A. Moffett

'Winston Churchill', c1897, (1945). Artist: Unknown.

R Braddock, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941) Canadian physiologist who with his assistant, CH Best, discovered Insulin (1921). Nobel prize for medicine 1923. Photograph courtesy of The Nobel Foundation

Henry Field, son of Marshall Field

Mr Ledsham, 19 Turnbull St, Thorndon, 16 August 1930, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Portrait of Mr Loveridge, circa 1935, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

Michael A. Scanlon , Mayors, Scanlon, Michael A.. Lawrence

Thomas Edison, 1914. Artist: Unknown.

Robert Abraham Esau (7 June 1884 - 12 May 1955) was a German physicist.

Gen. J.F. O'Ryan

Willie Hoppe

P.C. Knox

Pablo Casals

Wilbur Augustus Sawyer. Photograph.

Mr Butler studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

United States Navy Admiral William H. G. Bullard ca. early 1900s.

Rabbi S.S. Wise

Inventor Thomas Edison as a Young Man

John Wesley Vivian Payne (1899 - 1969), British dance band leader whose band played at the Hotel Cecil in London during the 1920s and later for the BBC. Date: c. 1928

T.A. Wright

King Albert of Belgium

Journalist Otto Carmichael ca. early 1900s.

Francis S. Caffey

Rob't F. Wagner

Sir Michael Bruxner - Personalities. June 07, 1950.

Fairfax Harrison, president of Southern Railway,5 11 1927.

O.B. Colovitt, Texas

Rodman Wanamaker Jr.

Congressman Julius Kahn circa 1905 - 1924.

William McKinley (1843-1901), 25th President of the United States 1897-1901, Half-Length Portrait, Photograph by Charles Milton Bell, between 1877 and 1889

C.M. Schwab

Portrait of an unidentified man, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Portrait of an Unidentified Man, circa 1928, maker unknown. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

Sir Geoffrey De Havilland, British aviator and aeronautical engineer in 1935

Newton D. Baker.

Dr Thomas, 1936, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

PORTRAIT OF GUSTAF STROMBERG.

Robert A. Millikan. 1868 -

Portrait of a man, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Walter Burley Griffin

Peter Leffler Peter Leffler

Sen. Ben Tillman

Judge A.V.S. Cochrane ca. 1910-1915.

Edgar Murphy

Portrait of Mr Christopher Carter, circa 1930, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

W.W. Lufkin

Frederick Cromwell.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: April 15, 1924. Judge Monaghan who is presiding at the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of architect Stanford White over his affair with Evelyn Nesbit.

Oskar Stålberg, W. Hästbo Oskar Stålberg, W. Hästbo

President Calvin Coolidge. Ca. 1923-1928. From 1907 to 1920, Coolidge worked his way up Massachusetts State politics to election as Governor in 1918. (BSLOC_2015_15_91)

James H. Vahey

William Jennings Bryan circa 1905-1925.

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