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Movie magnate visits White House – Historic Reproduction

Movie magnate visits White House, [ca. 1925] — historic photograph
Movie magnate visits White House, [ca. 1925]. Historic photograph from the White House 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 visitors to the White House in the mid-1920s had a profile like Louis B. Mayer's. By 1924, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed, he had become one of Hollywood's most powerful studio executives. This group portrait, dated around 1925 and made by the National Photo Company, shows Mayer with members of his family during a visit to the executive mansion. The company photographed official Washington and its visitors for decades, so the picture records how the capital's most famous house welcomed prominent figures from the new film industry.

Created / published[ca. 1925]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Group portraits 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesForms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt),--1885-1957--Family.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,291 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-200471

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