Vintage Professional Portraits

Historical images of professional men in formal attire, depicting early 20th-century fashion and portrait photography styles.

AUGUST VON WASSERMANN German bacteriologist Date: 1866 - 1925

Craig Wadsworth

C. Hardinge

Prat de la Riba, Enrique (Castelltersol, 1870-Barcelona, 1917). Jurista y político. En 1892 fue secretario de la asamblea que redactó las Bases de Manresa. Presidente de la diputación de Barcelona, impulsó la creación, el 6 de abril de 1914, de la Mancomunidad de Cataluña de la que fue el primer presidente hasta su muerte.

C.G. Dickinson

Count De La Fayett

1905. Portrait of Don Torcuato by Luca de Tena Álvarez Ossorio.

F.P. Allyn

AUGUST VON WASSERMANN German bacteriologist Date: 1866 - 1925

F.B. Delehanty

Orville Wright

Heinrich Meyn

CESPEDES, CARLOS MANUEL POLITICO CUBANO. 1831-1939 PRESIDENTE DE CUBA EN EL AÑO 1933.

Frank Strong

Wilhelm Gotthard Helin. Stins in Kungsgården.

Otto Foelker, bust portrait, facing right

Francis, Duke of Teck, c1895.Artist: WS Stuart

12/31/1929. Portrait of Manuel Machado.

Senor Don Enrique Olava Herrera

MARCUS LOEW.

£6,000.000 French Bond Fraud -- M. Tissier, who has confessed to, a part in the gigantic Bayonne Bond Scandal in which £6,000.000 is involved. The French President has ordered a search for the principals to be made, and the British police have been asked to help. February 18, 1934. (Photo by Central Press Photos Ltd.).

Dr. Ignacio Alcocer

Lord Sandhurst.

07/31/1911. The director of "new World", Mr. Francisco Verdugo.

ANDRE MAUROIS alias ESW HERZOG French novelist and biographer Date: 1885 - 1967

Dr. Livingston Farrand

Lerroux y García, Alejandro (La Rambla, Córdoba, 1864 -Madrid, 1949). Escritor, periodista y político español. Ocupó la presidencia del gobierno durante un breve período de la Segunda República Española.

Lloyd George

G. d'Annuncio i.e.d'Annunzio

J.B. Joel

James Gayley

Howard Elliot

A.H. Wiggin

Hooper Albert Dickinson Jowett. Photograph.

Hugo Haase

12/31/1929. Luis Gabaldon.Journalist.

Harold McGrath

New York, New York: 1904. Portrait of August Belmont Jr., financier, banker, and race horse owner. He built New York's Belmont Park race track.

Hon. F.E. Guest

Sam Bancroft

T. Kadono, Vice Pres. of Nagoya Chamber of Commerce Nagoya

MANUEL MACHADO (1874/1947) POETA ESPAÑOL.

03/31/1922. Mr. Adolfo Pons y Umbert, who on Sunday read his entrance speech as an academic of merit in jurisprudence.

Rodman Wanamaker

Mechanical engineer Carl Fredrik Knut Killander.

Herbert Witherspoon

Johannes Fibiger

Brukspatron/Managing Director August Lundeberg.

Lord Burnham

Paul M. Warburg ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Paul Warburg

William N. Buckley, bust portrait, facing right

Italian noble the Marquis Max Strozzi, of Florence, 1912

Rius y Torres, Salvador de la Trinidad (Barcelona, 1868-1920). Empresario y político.

Karl Helfferich

New Royal Household Officials.The Latest Portrait study of, Mr. Ronald Cross, M.P., who has just been appointed Vice-Chamberlain of H.M. Household. Mr. Cross has represented Rossendale, Lancs, Since 1931 as the Unionist Member, and has been Government Whip since 1935. He is a Merchant Banker. November 08, 1937.

Elsevier photo collection. Mr. Dr. f.a.c. Count Lynden van Sandenburg, Commissioner Queen Utrecht (1914-1924). 1923. Utrecht

G. Quesada

12/31/1931. The writer Manuel Machado.

Elsevier photo collection. S. R. The Miranda, alderman of Amsterdam (SDAP). undated. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Sergei Vasilyevich Aleksandrovsky, Governor of Penza. ca. 1911.

J. Skelton Williams

H.L. Stimson

Pablo Arosemena, acting President of Panama, half-length portrait, facing right

Portrait of Italian poet and literary critic, Enrico Thovez

Manuel A. Esteva

John T. Windell

Mechanical engineer Harald Westerdal.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English novelist and poet, who was born and lived most of his life in Dorset. From 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery' (London, 1890-1894). Woodbury type after photograph by W & D Downey.

Oscar Prochaska.

W.O. Osborn

WYNDHAM THOMAS WYNDHAM-QUIN, fourth earl of DUNRAVEN (until 1871 Lord Adare) M.P., yachtsman, associated with the medium D D Home. Date: 1841 - 1926

Sir R.J. Godlee

Fernando Periquet

Leon Berard

Enoch Arnold Bennett, British novelist, 1911. Artist: Unknown

Italian noble the Marquis Max Strozzi of Florence, 1912

Cecil Rhodes -- A portrait of the great empire-builder after whom Northern and Southern Rhodesia are named. The 100th anniversary of his birth will be celebrated on 5th July 1953. Out photograph of Cecil Rhodes was taken when he was in his early 40's. May 01, 1953. (Photo by Bassano, Camera Press).

03/08/1914. Don Félix Llanos y Torriglía, who gave a notable conference yesterday at the Ritz organized by the Spanish Ladies Union. Photo J. Lacoste.

C.W. Morse

Walter Page

12/31/1908. Portrait of Manuel Bueno.

Portrait

Max Planck (1858-1947), c1918. Artist: Unknown

Sir Max Pemberton (1863-1950), popular British novelist, mainly of adventure and mystery stories. Date: 1906

Max Planck (1858-1947) German theoretical physicist. Quantum Theory. Nobel prize for physics, 1918.

12/31/1904. Portrait of Don Torcuato Luca de Tena Álvarez Ossorio.

12/31/1925. Portrait of the writer Wenceslao Fernández Flórez.

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist who identified the brain pathology that caused dementia in middle aged patients that was later named after him as Alzheimer's Disease.

Salvador Giner Vidal (1832-1911), compositor español.

Sir Stanley Machin

Sir Frederic George Kenyon. Photograph by Lafayette.

William Trowbridge Larned, adapter of Ferenc's "The Devil"

Maurice Guffroy

Chandler-Hale

Thos. J. Pence

06/30/1906. Mr. Eugenio Montero Villegas, new General Director of Agriculture, after the Senior Positions became Vacant after the first Promotion.

Date: 1910-1915 - General Sir W.S. Brancer.

. Prime Minister of South Africa 1910-19 Born in Natal in 1862, Louis Botha first came to prominence in South African politics when he helped launch the New Republic Vryheid district of Zululand. During the Second Anglo-Boer War, Botha enlisted and rose rapidly to the rank of general, taking command of all Boer forces in 1900. After the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, Botha returned to politics and, through his party Het Volk, advocated self goverment for South Africa. In 1907, he was appointed Prime Minister of the Transvaal before becoming the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa in 1910. On the outbreak of the First World War, Botha offered South Africa's support to Britain and undertook to lead the successful campaign to take the German colony of South West Africa. Botha's consistent support for Britain during the First World War weakened his political position and led to unrest in South Africa. After unsuccessfully bidding for former German South West Africa to be incorpora

10/31/1931. The painter Julio Romero de Torres in a photo of Portillo.

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