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Doug and Mary are White House visitors – Historic Print

Doug and Mary are White House visitors, 1920 June 8. — historic photograph
Doug and Mary are White House visitors, 1920 June 8.. Historic photograph from the White House 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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A window into the past: Doug and Mary are White House visitors, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, newly married that March, are pictured on their June 1920 visit to the White House. Pickford and Fairbanks were among the most recognizable faces in American film, and their celebrity made any appearance in Washington a public event. Portraits like this one show how the couple, often called "America's sweethearts," moved between Hollywood stardom and official Washington during the early years of the movie industry.

Created / published1920 June 8.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920.Group portraits 1920.Photographic prints 1920.
SubjectsPickford, Mary,--1892-1979. Fairbanks, Douglas,--1883-1939.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,146 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163655

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