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Roosevelt Library – Vintage Print

Roosevelt Library, 1947 — historic print
Roosevelt Library, 1947. Historic print from the Presidents 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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Titled simply *Roosevelt Library*, this 1947 serigraph most likely depicts the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, which opened in 1941 as the first presidential library in the United States. The record does not confirm the building, and it files the work under Theodore Roosevelt, so the identification is an inference. The print is signed and dated in ink on the image. Serigraphy, a stencil-based screen process, was widely used by American printmakers in the 1940s because it produced flat areas of color in small editions.

Created / published1947
Medium1 print : serigraph ; 24.2 x 42.3 cm.
NotesNo. 22. Signed and dated in ink on image. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 137. Purchase; Pennell fund.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 882 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117779

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