Secty. Houston – Vintage Wall Art
![Secty. Houston, [1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/26/26a79f1c0ab1-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Secty. Houston, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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David F. Houston appears here as a solid black profile, one of twelve silhouette pictures the National Photo Company made of the president and cabinet in March 1920. Houston had led the Department of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson and moved to the Treasury early that year, so the portrait captures a cabinet officer near the end of Wilson's second term, when the administration was facing postwar economic strain. Silhouettes were a simple, distinctive way to present officials, and this glass negative may show the streaks and blemishes that come with the aging of its original coating.
| Created / published | [1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption from caption list: Symbolic Silhouettes of the President and Cabinet. twelve pictures. Date from caption list: March 6th 1920. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Subjects | Houston, David Franklin, --1866-1940. Silhouettes. Cabinet officers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,224 × 5,203 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-230459 |
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