Hollywood beauties / Underwood & Underwood, Washington. – Antique Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Hollywood beauties / Underwood & Underwood, Washington. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hollywood beauties / Underwood & Underwood, Washington.
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Clara Bow, the silent-screen actress often called the "It Girl," is the sitter in this 1929 head-and-shoulders portrait, shown turned to the right in the studio style of the day. The print comes from Underwood & Underwood, a Washington firm that produced large numbers of publicity and studio portraits of film stars and public figures during the 1920s. Bow's popularity peaked in the mid-1920s, and by 1929, the year her first talking picture appeared, portraits like this one helped keep her image before the public as Hollywood moved toward sound. Its catalog-style title, "Hollywood beauties," reflects how such photographs were marketed.
| Created / published | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Clara Bow, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. No. 68754R. |
| Subjects | Bow, Clara,--1905-1965. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,955 × 3,858 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177743 |
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