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Mario C. Menocal, President of CubaVintage Photographs - Politicians
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photos of political figures.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

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U.S. Congressman A. B. Littlepage (WW) U.S. Congressman F. R. I. Ehlbach (WW)
U.S. Congressman Samuel L. Taylor (WW) U.S. Congressman J. B. Aswell (WW)
U.S. Congressman W. A. Ayers (WW) U.S. Congressman D. H. Kincheloe (WW)
U.S. Congressman Stuart F. Reed (WW) U.S. Congressman H. W. Temple (WW)
U.S. Congressman M. G. Kelly (WW) U.S. Congressman John Baer (WW)
National Food Administrator Herbert Hoover (WW) H. E. Goffin (WW)
Colonel Edward House (WW) Chairman of Shipping Board E. N. Hurley (WW)
Fuel Administrator Henry A. Garfield (WW) John D. Ryan (WW)
George Creel (WW) Charles A. Piez (WW)
U.S. Council of National Defense, led by Newton D. Baker (WW) U.S. Congressman John J. Esch (WW)
Newton D. Baker (WW) U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (WW)
Field Marshal Kitchener (NW) Ulster volunteers being inspected by Sir Edward Carson (NW)
Lord Kitchener (NW) British Prime Minister Asquith in his garden with his small son (NW)
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George (NW) French President Raymond Poincare (NW)
Prince Max of Baden (HW) Georges Clemenceau (HW)
Lord Kitchener (HW) Raymond Poincare (HW)
Woodrow Wilson (HW) David Lloyd George (HW)
German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (HW) Allied statesmen drafting the Armistice terms at Versailles (HW)
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (HW) Herbert Asquith (GW)
Prince Lichnowsky's final call at the UK Foreign Office prior to war (GW) Lord Kitchener (GW)
Winston Churchill (GW) Louis Botha (GW)
The Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada (GW) Andrew Fisher (GW)
French President Raymond Poincare (GW) Lord Kitchener reviewing Australian cadets (GW)
Prince Said Halim, Grand Vizier (GW) Enver Pasha (GW)
Prince von Bismarck (GW) King George V, the Queen and Lord Kitchener (left) visit a British camp (GW)
General Smuts (GW) Kamal Pasha (GW)
German War Minister Lieut-General Wild von Hohenborn (GW) Lord Kitchener (GW)
Lord Kitchener leaving the War Office in London (GW) H. J. Tennant, M.P., British Undersecretary of State for War (GW)
Adolphe Max, Burgomaster of Brussels (GW) Louis Botha (GW)
Allied conference at Paris in Feb 15: Bark, Ribot and Lloyd George (GW) General Botha in campaigning kit on a white charger (GW)
Colonel Sir Percy Cox (GW) Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India (GW)
Sir Arthur Balfour (GW) A. Bonar Law (GW)
Lord Kitchener visiting an advanced French trench on the Western Front (GW) The Right Hon. Marquess of Lansdowne (GW)
Lieutenant Thomas C. Agar-Robartes, M.P. (GW) Colonel Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, M.P. (GW)
Eleutherios Venizelos (GW) Captain H. T. Cawley, M.P. (GW)
Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India (GW) Prime Minister Asquith with Sir John French and Joffre at the Front (GWS)
Jan Smuts (GWS) Louis Botha (GWS)
General Botha leaving a train in German South-West Africa (GWS) General Botha and Staff on the South-West African Veldt (GWS)
General and Mrs Botha at a railway station in German S.W. Africa (GWS) General Smuts congratulates the Imperial Light Horse in S.W. Africa (GWS)
General Smuts congratulates the Imperial Light Horse in S.W. Africa (GWS) Vice-Admiral Leone Viale, Italian Minister of Marine (GWS)
General Vittoria Zupelli, Italian Minister of War (GWS) Italian Prime Minister Antonio Salandra (GWS)
French President Poincare at the Hotel des Invalides, Paris (GWS) M. Millerand, French Minister of War, in Carency (GWS)
General Botha being welcomed back to Cape Town, 22 July 1915 (GWS) General Botha acknowledging salute of the Naval Guard in Cape Town (GWS)
French War Minister Millerand at Carency (GWS) French War Minister Millerand in the trenches with General de Castelnau (GWS)
French War Minister Millerand touring the battlefront at Carency (GWS) French War Minister Millerand touring the battlefront at Carency (GWS)
French War Minister Millerand passing through first line trenches (GWS) Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (GWS)
Arthur Balfour (GWS) Rt. Hon. Herbert Samuel, British Postmaster-General (GWS)
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George (GWS) David Lloyd George (left), then Minister of Munitions (GWS)
General Alexei Polivanov, Russian Minister of War (GWS) King Albert and President Poincare saluting the colours (GWS)
Reception of King Albert by President Poincare (GWS) President Poincare presenting the new colours, with King Albert (GWS)

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