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Library of Congress, Hispanic Foundation – Vintage Print

Library of Congress, Hispanic Foundation, [between 1930 and 1940] — historic photograph
Library of Congress, Hispanic Foundation, [between 1930 and 1940]. Historic photograph from the Library of Congress 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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The subject here is the Hispanic Foundation at the Library of Congress, a division created in 1939 to build the Library's holdings on Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Its founding came during the Good Neighbor period, when Washington was courting closer cultural and scholarly ties across the Americas. Color photographs from the 1930s are less common than black-and-white work, since color processes were still expensive and difficult, which makes this print a useful record of how the institution presented itself just as its Hispanic collections were taking shape.

Created / published[between 1930 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print : color.
GenrePhotographic prints Color 1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,216 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148193

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