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Vintage Americana Print - Mrs. William Billy Mitchell Elizabeth – Historic Reproduction

Vintage Americana Print - Mrs. William Billy Mitchell Elizabeth — historic print
Vintage Americana Print - Mrs. William Billy Mitchell Elizabeth. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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A window into the past: Vintage Americana Print - Mrs. William Billy Mitchell Elizabeth, preserved in this historic print. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Vintage Americana Print - Mrs. William Billy Mitchell Elizabeth

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The sitter is named in the record as Mrs. William "Billy" Mitchell Elizabeth, which ties the portrait to the Army officer who became the most outspoken advocate of military aviation in the 1920s. His public campaign for an independent air force ended in a court-martial in 1925, a case that made him a national figure. Portraits of officers' wives from this period were often made for family keeping or society pages, so pictures like this show private life running alongside a public controversy. The record offers little more about the sitter, so the image is best read as a general document of its era.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan1,135 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111461

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