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[Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in inaugural gown] – Antique Photo Print

[Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in inaugural gown], c1933. — historic photograph
[Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in inaugural gown], c1933.. Historic photograph from the Presidents 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 [Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in inaugural gown]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in inaugural gown]

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Standing full-length and turned to the left, Eleanor Roosevelt wears a formal inaugural gown in this portrait, dated around 1933. That was the year her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, took office as president on March 4, and the Inaugural Ball that week drew the capital's social and political figures. Formal portraits like this one, made to mark the occasion, showed the first lady in the public role she was then assuming. The print was also deposited for U.S. copyright, which helped it survive in the national collections.

Created / publishedc1933.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesJ13154 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Eleanor,--1884-1962. Presidential inaugurations--United States--1930-1940. Ball dresses--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,220 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184854

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