Magnate Collection

Cartoon, The Macmillion (Andrew Carnegie)
Cartoon, The Macmillion -- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919), Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist

Aldford House, Park Lane, Staircase Skylight
A photograph which shows the top of the staircase and skylight of Aldford House, a grand mansion in Park Lane, built between 1894-1897 for diamond magnate Alfred Beit

Aldford House, Park Lane, Entrance Gate
An architectural drawing which shows a detailed design of an entrance gate for Aldford House, a grand mansion in Park Lane, built between 1894-1897 for diamond magnate Alfred Beit. Date: early 1900s

Westbury House, Long Island
A photograph showing the exterior of Westbury House (Old Westbury Gardens), a Carolean revival mansion which was heavily designed by George Abraham Crawley

George Crawley Silver Locks And Handles
A series of photographs showing some silver locks and handles, ornately designed by British artist George Abraham Crawley, for the decoration of a formal dining room at 1063 Fifth Avenue, New York

George Crawley Console Table
A photograph of a highly decorative console table designed by George Abraham Crawley, for the formal dining room of 1063 Fifth Avenue, New York, owned by steel magnate Henry Phipps. Date: circa 1904

1063 Fifth Avenue Dining Room, New York
A photograph of a formal dining room at 1063 Fifth Avenue, New York, belonging to steel magnate Henry Phipps. The Phipp's patriarch appointed British designer George Abraham Crawley to decorate

Battle of Cecora (September-October, 1620)
Polish-Ottoman War (1620-1621). Battle of Cecora (September-October, 1620). Painting by Witold Piwnicki (1850 / 1851-1932), 1877-1878. Detail. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum)

Rupert Murdoch, media magnate
Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch, b 1931), Australian-born American media magnate and the founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation. Date: 1981

Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902), British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. Date: 1898

Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902), British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. Date: late 1890s

John Blundell Maple
Date: 1891

Franklyn Laws Hutton, co-founder of Woolworth s
Franklyn Laws Hutton (1877-1940) co-founder with his brother Edward Hutton of the Woolworths shopping empire. Date: 1939

Suffragette Arson Rivington Pike. The ruins of the bungalow built by William Hesketh Lever, the industrialist and soap magnate, at Rivington Pike, near Bolton

Alfred Edwards in Monte Carlo
Alfred Charles Edwards (10 July 1856 10 March 1914) journalist and magnate of the French press pictured in Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, six months after the mysterious death of his fifth wife

Tatler cover - Tina Onassis
Front cover of the Tatler featuring Athina Mary Livanos Onassis Spencer-Churchill Niarchos (19 March 1929 10 October 1974)

William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme
William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925), later Lord Leverhulme, soap manufacturer and philanthropist. Founder of Port Sunlight, the model community built on the Wirral to accommodate his employees

Gordon Selfridge and Anna May Wong
Retail supremo, F. Gordon Selfridge, founder of London department store, Selfridges, pictured with American-born Chinese film star, Anna May Wong

Florence Upton playing cards - Magnate from Japan
Florence Upton playing cards - The Magnate from Japan. circa 1900s

Rockefeller - Humorous postcard relating to his wealth
Rockefellers money is tainted - Taint Mine, Taint Yours! Humorous postcard relating to the staggering wealth of John D. Rockefeller

Grave goods from Dollerup in Jutland. Two drinking horns wit
Grave goods from a rich double burial of a magnate and his wife found at Dollerup in Jutland. In the womans grave lay two drinking horns with bronze mountings. National Museum of Denmark

Prehistory. The Early Iron Age. The Dejbjerg Wagon. 50 BC. N
Prehistory. The Early Iron Age. The Dejbjerg Wagon. Carriage sacrificed in a west Jutland. Ceremonial carriages. Probably made in central Europe by Celtic artisans. 50 BC. National Museum of Denmark

First Vct. St Davids
Sir JOHN WYNFORD PHILIPPS, first viscount ST DAVIDS businessman, railway magnate. Date: 1860 - 1938

Sir John Blundell Maple - Politician and Philanthropist
Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet (1845-1903) - Furniture merchant, MP, successful racehorse owner and Philanthropist who rebuilt University College Hospital. Date: 1889

C Vanderbilt / Scribners
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT American rail magnate. Date: 1794 - 1877

C Vanderbilt - Seabald
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 - 1877) Powerful 19th century rail and shipping magnate. Gained a controlling interest in numerous provincial railroads

Jay Gould (1888 1935), photograph taken in 1908 in New York. Jay Gould was an American tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould

Mellody Farm, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA -- residence of J Ogden Armour, meat packing magnate. The estate had its own railway station. Date: circa 1910

The Channel Tunnel - hints to Aldermen, Heath Robinson
A well-known magnate of the Port of Dover laying the foundation stone of the tunnel in the Channel. An amusing scene envisaged by William Heath Robinson showing various dignitaries observing

Alexander Forbes-Leith
Alexander John Forbes-Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie (1847 1925), Scottish Royal Navy officer and US steel magnate. Date: 1909

Leland Stanford (1824 - 1893) American senator and railway magnate

Vanderbilt New York Home
The picture gallery in the New York home of William Henry Vanderbilt, railway magnate. None of the pictures depicts a railroad train, surprisingly. Date: 1883

William Hanry Vanderbilt
WILLIAM HENRY VANDERBILT American railway magnate Date: 1821 - 1885

John Taylor Johnston
JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON American railway magnate and art collector. Date: 1820 - 1893

KRUPP, Alfred (1812-1887). German industrialist of iron and steel. Engraving

C. Arthur Pearson
Cyril Arthur Pearson (1866 - 1921), English newspaper and magazine publisher.. Date: 1904

USA / Hearst Castle
Hearst Castle, the palatial estate built for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, south California, U.S.A. Date: built 1919 - 1947

Sir Henry Strakosch 1871-1943 GBE, mining magnate and chairman of The Economist between 1929 and 1943. He became chairman of the Union Corporation of South Africa in 1924

Smichov - Czech Republic. The Ringhoffer factory (visible in the top right-hand corner of this card), founded in 1852 by railway magnate Baron Franz Ringhoffer (1817-1873)

Booksellers Retreat
The Booksellers Provident Retreat at Abbots Langley, Herts built as a result of the benevolence of paper magnate John Dickinson in 1844. The house is still used this way

Bache Edward Cunard
Sir BACHE EDWARD CUNARD Shipping magnate, member of family originating in Canada; but he was more interested in fox-hunting as master of the Pytchley

CHARLES CRUFT 1852-1938
CHARLES CRUFT founder of the largest and best known dog show in the world. Also a pet food magnate selling dog cakes

Japanese Governor / Scene
The Governor of Kanagawa rides forth in great state to the scene of a fire. Local people crouch before the passing magnate, led by a servant with an official banner of his rank

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