Hoover laying cornerstone, Congressional Club, 6/9/23 – Historic Reproduction
![Hoover laying cornerstone, Congressional Club, 6/9/23, [19]23 June 9. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2e/2e1029a34c4e-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hoover laying cornerstone, Congressional Club, 6/9/23. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hoover laying cornerstone, Congressional Club, 6/9/23
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Herbert Hoover is shown laying the cornerstone of the Congressional Club, a Washington, D.C., social club for women in Congress and their families, in June 1923. Hoover was then serving as Secretary of Commerce under President Warren G. Harding, and the event drew the kind of official Washington crowd that the National Photo Company regularly documented. The picture is a glass negative from that company's collection, made by a camera operator working for a commercial studio that sold images of public events to newspapers and buyers. Its title and date come from notes written by the company, which the Library of Congress has not independently verified.
| Created / published | [19]23 June 9. |
|---|---|
| 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 negative or negative sleeve. 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 two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,264 × 4,203 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-238264 |
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