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The Roosevelt fireside – Historic Reproduction

The Roosevelt fireside — historic photograph
The Roosevelt fireside. Historic photograph from the Presidents 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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Step back in time with The Roosevelt fireside, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Titled "The Roosevelt fireside," this 1937 print shows a family scene rather than a public occasion, with Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter pictured together. The title plays on the radio "fireside chats" that Franklin D. Roosevelt began in 1933, a series of informal broadcasts that made the hearth a symbol of his presidency and of reassurance during the Depression. Photographs of the first family at home were often used to show the public a more personal side of the White House. The record does not name the photographer or the exact setting, so those details remain unconfirmed.

Medium1 photographic print.
GenreMrs. Roosevelt and her daughter
Notes1937
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945,--Family.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204326

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