Oscar Underwood (action) – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Oscar Underwood (action) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Oscar Underwood (action)
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Oscar Underwood, the Alabama Democrat who served in the U.S. House and later the Senate, is caught here on the move as he leaves the Capitol, the snapshot recorded in January 1920. Underwood was a central figure in Congress during this period; he had led the House Democrats as majority leader and later chaired the Ways and Means Committee, and he would soon make a run for the presidential nomination. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented the city's officials and street life in the early twentieth century, made the glass negative. Its surface shows the streaks and blemishes typical of aging coatings, which adds to its feel as a worn, original record of a working day on Capitol Hill.
| Created / published | 1920 January 10. |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from caption list. Caption from caption list: A new photo of Oscar Underwood snaped [i.e., snapped] as he was leaving the Capitol today. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Subjects | Underwood, Oscar W. (Oscar Wilder),--1862-1929. Legislators. United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,136 × 5,143 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-230332 |
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