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Joseph McCarthy – Antique Wall Art

Joseph McCarthy, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Joseph McCarthy, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose name gave a decade its label, is the figure here, though the record does not say when or where the picture was taken. McCarthy rose to national prominence in 1950 with charges of communist infiltration in the federal government, and his hearings in the early 1950s made him one of the most polarizing politicians in the country. The picture comes from the Granik Collection, a body of portraits and press images held by the Library of Congress, and its undated caption card leaves much of its origin open to question.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesGranik Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I. Unprocessed, Access. no. 225-75.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,231 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156880

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