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[Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [1968?] — historic photograph
[Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [1968?]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Shirley Chisholm is the subject of this head-and-shoulders portrait, shown in profile facing right, and she is identified here by her role as Congresswoman from New York. Chisholm was elected to the House of Representatives in 1968, becoming the first Black woman to serve in Congress, and she represented a district in Brooklyn for seven terms. The portrait belongs to the Library of Congress's Congressional Portrait Collection, a body of photographs of lawmakers from the 1960s and 1970s, and it captures the formal style of official congressional imagery from that era.

Created / published[1968?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970.
NotesNo. 170a. Forms part of: Congressional Portrait Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsChisholm, Shirley,--1924-2005.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,123 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169018

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