Oscar Underwood – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Oscar Underwood in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Oscar Underwood
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The record identifies the sitter as Oscar Underwood, the Alabama Democrat who served in the House and later the Senate, and who helped steer the Underwood Tariff through Congress in 1913. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with photographs of public figures, made the image on a glass negative, a format it relied on through the early twentieth century. The record gives no exact date, so the portrait fits best within that broader era of news photography, when a single politician's likeness could appear in many papers at once.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,141 × 5,703 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13370 |
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