Autograph album of Joseph E. Josephs, 1923-1985

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Autograph album with over 500 signatures and its bespoke leather case. The entries often include dates, place names, and occasionally a dedication to Joseph Josephs.

The names listed below are grouped by profession and presented in alphabetical order. Although the lists are extensive, they are not exhaustive. There are many signatures of international royalty and nobility not listed here.

Politicians and activists: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Clement Attlee, Stanley Baldwin, Annie Besant, James Callaghan, Juan Campisteguy, Winston Churchill, Bainbridge Colby, Anthony Eden, Indira Gandhi, David Lloyd George, Hugh Simons Gibson, John Gorton, John Haynes Holmes, Edward Heath, Keith Holyoake, Herbert Hoover, Cordell Hull, George Lansbury, Ramsay MacDonald, Gerardo Machado, Harold Macmillan, D.F. Malan, Carlos Mendieta, Mario García Menocal, Alfred Moritz Mond, Sarojini Naidu, Agustín Pedro Justo Rolón, Franklin Roosevelt, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Giuseppe Saragat, Al Smith, Thorvald Stauning, Margaret Thatcher, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, Getúlio Vargas, Roland 'Roy' Welensky, Paul van Zeeland.
Military personnel: Joseph Le Brix, Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., Ian Hamilton, James Guthrie Harbord, George Francis Milne, Jan Christian Smuts.
Inventors: Leon Theremin, Thomas Edison.
Scientists: Niels Bohr, William Henry Bragg, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Albert Einstein, Michael Pupin.
Physicians: Alfred Adler, Christiaan Barnard, Charles Herbert Best, Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, Bertrand Edward Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn.
Writers: Sherwood Anderson, Sholem Asch, Hilaire Belloc, Stephen Vincent Benét, Padraic Colum, Ernest Dimnet, T.S. Eliot, Gerhart Hauptmann, F.R. Higgins, Aldous Huxley, Emil Ludwig, Walter de la Mare, Edwin Markham, John Edward Masefield, André Maurois, Christopher Darlington Morley, Alfred Noyes, Liam O'Flaherty, J.B. Priestley, Ameen Rihani, George William Russell, Rafael Sabatini, Bernard Shaw, Rabindranath Tagore, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, Franz Werfel, W.B. Yeats.
Musicians: Frances Alda, Béla Bartók, Thomas Beecham, Lucrezia Bori, Feodor Chaliapin, George Enescu, Amelita Galli-Curci, Benjamin Gigli, Walter Giseking, Leopold Godowsky Sr., Percy Grainger, Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Honegger, Fritz Kreisler, Henry Lauder, Giovanni Martinelli, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Arthur Rubinstein, Tatta Ruffo, Oscar Straus, Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Szigeti, Michael Tippett, Arthur Toscanini, William Walton.
Artists: B.J. Czedekowski, Howard Somerville, Hermann Struck.
Philosophers: Nicholas Murray Butler, John Dewey, Hermann von Keyserling, Albert Schweitzer.
Explorers: Roy Chapman Andrews, Peter Freuchen, Bertram Sidney Thomas, Hubert Wilkins.
Cinema personalities: Charlie Chaplin, Max Reinhardt.
Other personalities: Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy, Edwin Landseer Lutyens, Helen Rogers Reid.