This Is a Hoover Home campaign card with portrait – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of This Is a Hoover Home campaign card with portrait. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
This Is a Hoover Home campaign card with portrait
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A campaign card built around a portrait of Herbert Hoover, labeled "Hoover Home," reflects the personal, household-focused material that circulated during his presidential runs. Hoover, a mining engineer and former Commerce Secretary, won the 1928 election on a promise of continued prosperity, then saw the Great Depression overshadow his 1932 bid for reelection. Cards like this were handed out at rallies and mailed to voters, so they show how candidates presented their image to ordinary citizens. The pairing of a formal portrait with a short, home-centered message is worth noticing as a window into how campaigns sought to make a national figure feel familiar.
| Original scan | 4,430 × 4,519 px · prints to 15 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | master-pnp-ppss-00400-00466u-Election |
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