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Vintage Portraits of Notable Figures

A collection of vintage black and white portraits featuring men in formal attire. The subjects exude sophistication and reflect early 20th-century styles.

Photographic portrait of Manuel de Fella (1876-1946) a Spanish composer. Dated 20th Century

Colonel Sir Donald Banks. February 17, 1939.

Jean Martin Charcot. Photograph.

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) - 'Il Duce' - Italian fascist dictator.

James Richard Stanhope, 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope (11 November 1880 15 August 1967), styled Viscount Mahon until 1905, and known as The Earl Stanhope from 1905 until 1967, was a British Conservative politician.

ALBORNOZ, ALVARO DE. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . LUARCA 1879 - 1954. REPRODUCCION FOTO. SFGP / © KORPA.

Sergei Gorny (Alexander-Mark Avdeevich Otsup); writer-humorist, parodist, prose writer ca. 1910

MANUEL LORENZO PARDO (1881/1953) INGENIERO DE CAMINOS POLITICO FOTOGRAFO Y ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

JESUS HILARIO TUNDIDOR (1935-) POETA ZAMORANO. PREMIO ADONAIS EN 1962.

L.P. Beria, member of the Soviet *****. January 01, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)

09/30/1913. The Senior Officials. Marquis of Portago, (Vicente Cabeza de Vaca and Fernández de Córdoba) governor of Madrid.

Photograph of Peter Sellers (1925-1980) an American actor, comedian and singer. Dated 20th Century

Editor, Red, Malcolm Björkman, Press Service

EDUARDO MARQUINA POETA 1879-1946.

The Stravinsky Affair was a 1934 financial scandal generated by the actions of embezzler Alexandre Stravinsky. It had political ramifications for the French Radical Socialist moderate government of the day because the Prime Minister had protected Stravinsky, who suddenly died in mysterious circumstances.

Anefo photo collection. Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Masaryk. March 10, 1948. Czechoslovakia

A characteristic study of Rev. Charles Coughlin, Canadian-born pastor of the Little Flower at Royal Oaks, Mich., which discovers over the radio attacking ***** especially its monetary policy, and the ***** bankers, has gained him nation-wide ***** Hostility of administration leaders. A ***** of President Roosevelt, his attacks ***** at those of the administration whom he ***** the President rather than aiding ***** the nation to prosperity. He has founded Social Justice in which he claims a member into the millions to aid in bringing about advocates. A year ago it was estimated the listeners numbered 10,000,000, today than be greater. June 26, 1935.

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), compositor español. Foto Alfonso.

Italian actor Toto applying makeup ca. before 1967.

Portrait of Alphert Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1880-1943), mayor of the municipality of Doorn from 1909 to

A. Muller-Ury

PORTRAIT OF DOCTOR GREGORIO MARAÑON IN HIS LIBRARY, 1950s. Location: CASA DE GREGORIO MARAÑON. MADRID. SPAIN.

The Nobel Prizes of 1912. Gerhard Hauptmann, famous German poet, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Photo: Leipziger Presse-Büro -Approximate date.

12/21/1915. Christmas lottery. The journalist Mr. José Santos Pérez, awarded with a participation in the first prize.

Photographic portrait of Francisco Largo Caballero, the Spanish Prime Minister during the first half of the Spanish Civil War, pictured in 1936. Date: 1936

Meyer Nussbaum

BELA KUN Hungarian radical statesman, Bolshevik, founder of Hungarian communist party. None of which saved him from being liquidated by Stalin. Date: 1886 - 1937

MOLES i ORMELLA , JOAN. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . BARCELONA 1871 - 1945.

FOTOGRAFIA EN BLANCO Y NEGRO DE PEDRO AGUADO BLEYE (1884-1954) HISTORIADOR ESPAÑOL.

Jules Moch elected Premier of France. Jules Salvador Moch (15 March 1893, in Paris - 1 August 1985, in Cabris, Alpes-Maritimes) was a French socialist politician. During World War II Moch was critical of the Vichy French government and was jailed but later was released. He joined and helped organise the Paris underground. After World War II, Moch was a member of the Consultative Assembly.

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

01/01/1950. Portrait of the great writer Wenceslao Fernández Flórez.

12/31/1904. Portrait of the composer Enrique Granados.

Sir Basil Urwin Spence (13 August 1907 19 November 1976) Sir Basil Urwin Spence was a Scottish architect, most notable for his work building a new Coventry Cathedral, after the old one had been gutted in World War 2. It was for this work that he was knighted in 1960. He would go on to design the "Beehive" Executive Wing of Parliament, as well as many other buildings in modernist/ brutalist style. Date: 1955

Anthony Eden (1897-1977) British politician in 1938 when he resigned as Foreign Secretary.

Alexander Berkman

MISCHA AUER.

Dapper --False moustaches men for the use of. July 28, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mail Contact Picture).

Dr. O. R. Frisch, model of freedom with Bhaye Palm Atomic Research. January 01, 1947.

THOMAS BEECHAM (1879-1961) MUSICO INGLES. Location: ARCHIVO COVEN GARDEN. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Djilas. November 01, 1954.

Montemezzi

Moshe Sneh (6 January 1909 ñ 1 March 1972) was an Israeli politician and military figure 1949

American composer Jerome Kern

SILVELA , LUIS. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. COMISARIO SUPERIOR DE ESPAÑA EN MARUECOS. REPRODUCCION FOTO AÑO 1928.

The new President of East Germany, Herr Wilhelm Pieck. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (3 January 1876 - 7 September 1960) was a German communist politician who served as the chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as president of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1960.

Stars: RENE CLAIR.

Irving Grant Thalberg the young executive genius of the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer studios.Irving Thalberg (above) who wanted to victimise Gable. August 22, 1947.

Man Ray with Photokina-Eye / Fraser, Charles (1919-2008) / Photograph / 1960 / England / © Fraser Estate, London / Portrait

Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71, DEU, Germany, Europe

Archbishop Mundelein

Will Hays

Mexican General Victoriano Huerta. José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (Colotlán, Jalisco, December 22, 1850, January 13, 1916. Mexican general who briefly became president during the Mexican Revolution

"Count Carlo Sforza." January 01, 1945. (Photo by European).

Christopher Fry The Playwright at his London house.When Christopher Fry went to Rome to work on the script of Ben-Hur - and Arthur Miller married Marilyn Monroe - one felt that possibly the contemporary playwright was ***** to too many distracting influences.Since 1954, Mr. Fry has not had a new play in London.He has written another movie epic, "Barabbas," and, according to rumour, was now seriously considering doing a film version of the entire Bible - of both the Old and New Testaments - for produce Dino de Laurentis. September 5, 1951. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press).

Alban Berg (1885-1935) Austrian composer, a pupil of Schoenberg.

Robert Kindersley, lst Baron Kindersley (1871-1951) British stockbroker and merchant banker. Chairman of National Savings Committee 1916-1920 then its President until 1946. Led Britains War Savings Campaign.

12/31/1960. Dámaso Santos, journalist and Writer.

ADOLPHE MENJOU American film actor, also in silent French films Date: 1890 - 1963

Reproduction to a photo of Willem Witsen, Anonymous, After Willem Witsen, c. 1860 - c. 1915 photograph Netherlands paper. photographic support gelatin silver print

12/31/1909. Don Manuel Hormaza, "Sportman" from Bilbao who distinguished himself in rescuing the shipwreck of the "Guipuzcoa".

Photographic portrait of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (1877-1949) a Spanish lawyer, politician, and Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic. Dated 20th Century

District chambers and politicians Ernst Hage.

Conrad Veidt, (1893-1943), German actor, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

MESA , ENRIQUE. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL . MADRID 1878 - 1928.

12/31/1938. Antonio Machado in the last days of his life.

12/31/1934. Victorio Macho.

Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71. Lorenz Knorr (SPD later DFU) d. 2018, DEU, Germany, Europe

Heifetz

MARCEL CARNE.

Lord Alverstone, judge at the Dr Crippen trial. 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, M

Shri Duleep Sinhji who has been appointed High Commissioner for India in Australia in succession to Shri Daya Singh Bedi.Shri Duleep Sinhji was born in 1905 and educated at Cheltenham College and Clare College, Cambridge. He captained the Sussex County Cricket Team in 1931-32 and has played in Test Matches for England against Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. He has travelled extensively in Europe, U.S.A and Australia. He has served in various administrative capacities in Nawanagar State. February 03, 1950. (Photo by Press Information Bureau).

MENENDEZ PIDAL , RAMON. FILOLOGO E HISTORIADOR ESPAÑOL . LA CORUÑA 1869 - 1968.

RAMON PEREZ DE AYALA-1888/1962- ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL-ENSAYISTA-PERIODISTA Y POETA-EXILIADO.

Anefo photo collection. Simon Wiesenthal signs his book Sailing of Hope in Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. March 27, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor, 1926. Artist: Unknown

12/31/1929. Portrait of José Calvo Sotelo.

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) American composer and pianist.

Mr. H. T. Armitage - Acting Governor of the Commonwealth Bank. Was appointed to C'th Bank on its foundation as the first accountant and has filled in turn the positions of chief accountant, secretary, head office manager, chief inspector, and Deputy Governor. Age then 60 yrs. July 1, 1941.

12/31/1964. Portrait of Menendez Pidal.

Francisco Franco 1892-1975. Spanish general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975

12/31/1929. Antonio Azpeitua, pseudonym of Javier Bueno, in an image from the 1930s.

President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia 1942. Dr. Eduard Bene 1884 3 September 1948. leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938 and again from 1940 to 1948

Georges Boillot (1883-1916), French Grand Prix motor racing driver and First World War pilot. Pictured in the Sporting & Dramatic News after reports that he had been reported missing since taking part in . an air battle. During his time as a flyer, he won the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'Honneur On April 21, 1916 his plane was shot down in a dogfight over Verdun-sur-Meuse and crashed near Bar-le-Duc. Severely injured, he died in a military hospital at Vadelaincourt, Meuse. Date: 1

Josep Torres Vilalta "Toresky" (Barcelona, 1869-1937). Actor y locutor radiofónico; ventrílocuo creador del personaje Míliu, a la edad de 25 años. Dibujo de Santsalvador.

Gyorgy Sandor -- Hungarian-born pianist, who will tour Australia for the ABC from July to October, giving recitals and appearing with Symphony Orchestras. January 11, 1950.

01/20/1972. Francisco Grande Covián.

Raimu (1883-1946), French actor. Dated 20th Century

Anefo photo collection. PvdA main board. Bernard Franken, alderman of Amsterdam. February 19, 1946. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

12/31/1978. An image of Gonzalo torrente Ballester.

1928. Photograph of the portrait that Rafael Sanchís Yago made of Miguel de Zárraga, dedicated by the journalist to Don Torcuato Luca de Tena.

Anefo photo collection. New Commissioner of Queen Utrecht, Mr. C. RH. E. Graaf van Lynden. February 4, 1954

AZAíA, Manuel (1880-1940). Spanish Republican politician and man of letters. President of the Republic (1936-1939).

Harry Price(1881-1948), psychical researcher and author, who used his knowledge of stage magic to expose phoney mediums, poltergeists and other scams. Date: circa 1940s

06/30/1912. Antonio Fuentes, seriously injured. The Notable Right-handed Man, who yesterday was caught by one of the bulls he fought in Santander.

Cornelius Codreanu - Rumania - Personality. June 22, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)

12/31/1929. Commander Ramón Franco in the 1930s.

Portrait of the Tenor Louis van Tulder, c. 1919 - c. 1930 photomechanical print Signed and commissioned to Nico Meijer. On the back of the map is a short biography of the singer. Netherlands paper. cardboard. ink pen portrait of opera-singer. historical persons Netherlands

Anefo photo collection. Enro Gero (Hungary). August 21, 1962. Hungary

Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia: Franz Kafka, German-language author of novels and short stories (1883-1924), c. 1910

RETRATO DE JOAQUIN SANCHEZ DE TOCA - 1852/1942 -. Author: FRANCISCO LLORENS DIAZ (1874-1948). Location: ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS MORALES POLITICAS. MADRID. SPAIN. JOAQUIN SANCHEZ DE TOCA (1852-1942).

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