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Émile Loubet, by Jean Baptiste Guth - Vanity Fair, 18 May 1899
He was the 45th Prime Minister of France from February to December 1892 and later President of France from 1899 to 1906. He retired into private life and died on 20 December 1929 at the age of 90.
Théophile Delcassé, by Jean Baptiste Guth - Vanity Fair, 9 Feb 1899
French politician who served as foreign minister from 1898 to 1905. He is best known for his hatred of Germany and efforts to secure alliances with Russia and Great Britain that became the Entente Cordiale.
The Viscount Galway, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 5 January 1899
George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell was a British Conservative politician and courtier. Pictured here in his murder clothes.
The Bronze Horseman, by Vasily Surikov, 1870
The Bronze Horseman (Медный всадник, literally "copper horseman") is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
"Next!" (1904), by Udo Keppler
An octopus representing Standard Oil with tentacles wrapped around U.S. Congress and steel, copper, and shipping industries, and reaching for the White House
Puck cover, June 28, 1899, by Udo J. Keppler
Justice sitting, blindfolded and holding her scales at her side, with the Eiffel Tower in the background; standing at her feet is Puck holding a list of names.
A Procession of Bandits, 1916, by Władysław Skoczylas
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La Partie carrée, c. 1713, by Jean-Antoine Watteau
Henry Charles Burdett, by John Paget Mellor - Vanity Fair, 14 July 1898
He was an English financier and philanthropist. He helped to establish the British Hospitals Association in 1884.