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

Dato e Iradier, Eduardo (La Coruña, 1856 -Madrid, 1921). Jurista y político conservador español, fue ministro de Gobernación durante la regencia de María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena y presidente del Consejo de Ministros, ministro de Gracia y Justicia, ministro de Estado y ministro de Marina durante el reinado de Alfonso XIII.

Portrait of Nobel Astrans manager K.E Widerström.The image is included in two large photo albums by Director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked long at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (1891 -1975), British composer and conductor and Master of the Queen's Music. Date: 1953

Giovanni Agnelli, 1920.

12/31/1939. John Keynes sits and looks impassively.

Elsevier photo collection. Dr. W. Holleman, Arts, died. 1923

The conqueror of the Channel: Louis Bleriot, 1909 (1933). Artist: Flight Photo.

Photograph of E(dward) H(enry) Harriman, the United States Financier and railroad executive, also known as 'The Railroad King'. Date: 1909

Photographic portrait of Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) King of the Second Republic. Dated 20th Century

Alex D.C. Russell .

Ottokar Bartnik

March 1913. The notable Argentine journalist and writer Mr. Enrique García Vellosos, whose work "Fruta Picada" will premiere tomorrow, Friday at the Comedy Theater. Photo: Biedma.

A dramatic photograph of Don Alfonso Xiii upon landing in Marseille on April 15, 1931.

Count von Hulsen Haeseler

1903-05 British politician and (later Prime Minister) LLoyd George. Photo by Reginald Haines

Duke of Orleans

Africa, Zimbabwe, South Matabeleland province, Matobo National Park, the Matobo Mounts classified on the World Heritage of Unesco list since 2003, portrait of the British Cecil John Rhodes who founded the Rhodesy

MANN, Thomas (Lübeck,1875-Kilchberg,Zurich,1955). Novelista alemán.

Joseph Charles Holbrooke (5 July 1878 5 August 1958) was an English composer; conductor; and pianist

Director Helmer Norling, Fors, Torsåker. Direktör Helmer Norling, Fors, Torsåker.

Elsevier photo collection. M. van Sonsbeeck, mayor Egmond-Binnen. 1921. Egmond

12/31/1910. D. Estanislao de Dios López, worker from Rodrigo city, author of a pamphlet and a popular conference about the Colonial Wars.

Lord Northcote

Oskar Nagel.

12/31/1914. Don Francisco Aparicio.

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) British composer, conductor and teacher.

SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan Date: 1860 - 1937

Julius Wolf. Photograph by Atelier 'Lilly', 1913.

04/30/1917. Mr. Manuel Manrique de Lara, who yesterday read his entrance speech at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Jesus Guridi Bidaola (1886-1961). Spanish composer. Portrait. Photography.

Wayne Bidwell Wheeler (November 10, 1869 September 5, 1927) American attorney and prohibitionist.

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945). Dr. Goddard has been recognized as the father of American rocketry and as one of the pioneers in the theoretical exploration of space. Robert Hutchings Goddard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1882, was theoretical scientist as well as a practical engineer. His dream was the conquest of the upper atmosphere and ultimately space through the use of rocket propulsion. Dr. Goddard, died in 1945, but was probably as responsible for the dawning of the Space Age as the Wrights were for the beginning of the Air Age. Yet his work attracted little serious attention during his lifetime. However, when the United States began to prepare for the conquest of space in the 1950's, American rocket scientists began to recognize the debt owed to the New England professor. They discovered that it was virtually impossible to construct a rocket or launch a satellite without acknowledging the work of Dr. Goddard. More than 200 patents, many of which we

Studio photograph of Pedro Muñoz Seca, from 1912, when he premiered at the Cervantes Theater in Madrid, in collaboration with Pedro Pérez Fernández, the comic-cinematic toy in two acts "Trampa y Cartón".

Peter Lamberg. Deputy Chairman of the Board of Railways, BJ 1923.

M. Romanelli

Dr. Karl Liebknecht, head-and-shoulders portrait, arms crossed, facing left

Vicomte de la Panouse

08/31/1912. New Deputy. Don Enrique Benito Chávarri, Proclaimed Deputy to the Cortes for Madrid - Pol photo - Approximate date.

Front cover of The Tatler following the outbreak of war in August 1914, with a photograph of Lord Lord Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum (1850 - 1916) who had been made Minister for War and who will, assures The Tatler, 'muzzle the "mad dog".' Date: 1914

JJ (Joseph John) Thomson 1856-1940. British physicist: discoverer of Electron and pioneer of nuclear physics. From photograph taken c1922.

Capt. B.S. Osbon, portrait bust

Hamilton Wright Mabie

José María Alonso Trelles (1875-1924), escritor uruguayo de origen gallego, poeta del mundo gaucho. Dibujo de Gabriel, año 1955.

PERRIN Y VICO , GUILLERMO. ECRITOR ESPAÑOL. MALAGA 1857 - 1923. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Capt. H. Tauscher

05/31/1912. Xavier Cabello Lapiedra, author of the Comedy "Man Lives Not Alone on Bread" photo LV De Montano - Approximate date.

Luther Connant

March 1910. Don Tesifonte Gallego, new general director of agriculture.

UK: David Lloyd George (1863-1945), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1916-1922, c. 1918

Duke Marlborough, portrait 11 26 1910 (possibly 10th Duke of Marlborough).

Baron Sloet v Marxveld

'Bataille', c1893. Artist: Eugene Pirou.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660485

Marcus M. Marks

12/31/1929. Guillermo Marconi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of the Principles of Wireless Telegraphy, at the time when he served as president of the Italian Academy.

Lev Ivanov portrait ca. 1885

Alexis Kosloff

'Grisier', c1893. Artist: Henri Manuel.

Portrait of Franz Josef Breitenbach (1853-1934), Swiss organ player (bust) - photograph with dedication to Aleksander Rajchman. unknown, photographer

Aldo Almqvist, bureau manager.

'Gavault', c1893. Artist: Unknown.

W.R. Wilcok

Stins Gustaf (Gösta) F. Ählström.

William Habgood. Photograph by Elliott & Fry Ltd.

11/30/1911. Monsieur Lepine, prefect of the Paris police, who has resigned from his position. Photo: Marmand -Approximate date.

FEDERICO GAMBOA - 1864/1939 - ESCRITOR MEXICANO.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947), German Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, Portrait, 1910's

United States Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, ca. early 1900s (Democrat Senator).

A.B. Harman. Photograph.

G. Hauptmann

Richard Strauss

06/30/1914. The process of Mme. Caillaux. M. Herbaux, Attorney General.

Georges Clemenceau

Sir Harry A. Neyland

George W. Wickersham

12/31/1899. Guilermo Marconi in a photograph by Francesco Felicetti (Rome).

Karl Ernst Hailing, Telegraph Director. 1.9.1932-30.9.1933. Born 8.12.1876.

Lewis Morris, British poet, 1890.Artist: W&D Downey

Karl Liebknecht (1871 ñ 15 January 1919) German socialist and a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany.

Algernon Lee

Alec Guinness as Ethelred.King Heatrs and Coronets is an Ealing Studios production for Michael Balcon, starring Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood. - Directed by Robert Hamer. November 06, 1955. (Photo by J. Arthur Rank Organization Ltd.).

Otokar Theodor Arno (1866-1902), baron de Bradsky-Laboun, pionero de la aviación alemana, muerto junto al ingeniero Paul Morin en accidente al caer el globo dirigible diseñado por ellos mismos. Año 1902.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1909, portrait by Peter P. Jones. Tanner studied with Thomas Eakins and was the first African-American painter to achieve international fame (BSLOC_2016_8_130)

J.A. Johnson, portrait bust

LUIS COMPANYS JUVER, POLITICO Y ABOGADO CATALAN. Location: FUNDACION PABLO IGLESIAS. MADRID. LLUIS COMPANYS JOVER.

Carl Vrooman

City Council Director Lars August Meurling.

Clifford Bax (1886-1962) English author

Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel Prize winner, c. 1940.

SIR CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS Engineer and inventor Date: 1854 - 1931

Matthew Henson - Polar Explorer

Ignacio Zuloaga Zabaleta (1870-1945), pintor español.

Cecil A. Lyon

Rene Besnard

Portrait of John Edward Masefield, the English poet and novelist, drawn in 1930 when he was made Poet Laureate. Date: 1930

Stins O. Gustaf Hökerberg.

Primera guerra mundial (1914-1918). Clemenceau, Georges Benjamin (1841-1929), político y militar francés. Grabado de 1916.

Michael Arlen (1895-1956), British writer and novelist of Armenian extraction, 1937. Artist: Unknown

Igor Stravinsky. Photo by Pierre Choumoff, circa 1920

GIACOMO PUCCINI leans on the piano,a cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth Date: 1858 - 1924

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