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William Benton, 1900-1973 – Vintage Wall Art

William Benton, 1900-1973, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
William Benton, 1900-1973, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph 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 photograph of William Benton, 1900-1973. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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William Benton, 1900-1973

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Hartford, Connecticut, is the place the caption card ties to this print of William Benton, who lived from 1900 to 1973. Benton built a career in advertising, co-founding the agency Benton & Bowles, then served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1949 to 1953. He also owned the Encyclopaedia Britannica for many years, and the campaign tags on the card hint at his political life. The record gives no date, so the photograph's exact timing remains uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: helicopters; Capitol bldgs...; Conn.--Hartford; Poli. Campaigns; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,243 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140247

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