Eugene V. Debs, 5 times Socialist candidate for President, set free from prison on Christmas Day – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Eugene V. Debs, 5 times Socialist candidate for President, set free from prison on Christmas Day, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Eugene V. Debs, 5 times Socialist candidate for President, set free from prison on Christmas Day
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Eugene V. Debs, who ran for president five times as a Socialist candidate, walked out of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta on Christmas Day 1921, ending more than two years behind bars. He had been sentenced in 1918 under the Espionage Act for an antiwar speech, and his imprisonment made him a rallying point for labor and civil liberties supporters. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence shortly before the holiday. Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm known for news and studio photographs of the era, produced the print, which captures the moment of a closely watched release.
| Created / published | c1921 Dec. 25. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. S/282,151/FC. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Ph. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,162 × 2,400 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148570 |
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