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[Charles Franklin Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Charles Franklin Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left] — historic photograph
[Charles Franklin Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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[Charles Franklin Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left]

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Charles Franklin Brannan appears in this half-length portrait seated at a desk and turned to the left, a formal pose suited to an official of the Department of Agriculture. Brannan, a Colorado lawyer, served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Harry S. Truman from 1948 to 1953 and is best remembered for the Brannan Plan, a proposal to support farm incomes through direct payments to producers rather than through rigid price supports. The caption card does not record when the picture was made, so the desk setting and the dignified composition are the main clues to its purpose.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129500

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