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Willis Van Devanter, 1859-1941 – Historic Reproduction

Willis Van Devanter, 1859-1941, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
Willis Van Devanter, 1859-1941, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Willis Van Devanter, 1859-1941. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Willis Van Devanter, 1859-1941

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Willis Van Devanter (1859-1941) was a Wyoming lawyer who went on to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1911 to 1937, and this halftone portrait preserves his likeness from that long career on the bench. Van Devanter was known for his mastery of procedure and for his influence on the Court's conservative bloc during the New Deal years, when many of his colleagues and the Roosevelt administration clashed over economic legislation. The print is a photomechanical reproduction, a method that made photographs of public figures cheap to publish in newspapers and magazines of the era.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,245 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157774

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