Pat McCarron, 1876-1954 – Vintage 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pat McCarron, 1876-1954. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pat McCarron, 1876-1954
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Pat McCarron, whose dates in the record run from 1876 to 1954, appears in a United Press photoprint dated June 22, 1954. United Press was one of the major wire services of the period, and its photoprints were made as news pictures for subscribing newspapers, which suggests a pressroom purpose rather than a studio portrait. The identifying details come from a caption card and are marked unverified, so the occasion for the picture is not recorded. Mid-century wire photographs like this one show how news images were transmitted and captioned before digital delivery.
| Created / published | 1954 June 22. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by United Press. No. WAP-59757. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,211 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155709 |
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