Police Dept. swears in Singer midgets, Louis Vasshek & Dora Vieg, 11/3/24 – Vintage Photo Print
![Police Dept. swears in Singer midgets, Louis Vasshek & Dora Vieg, 11/3/24, [19]24 November 3. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5d/5de8195415f8-L.webp)
(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: Police Dept. swears in Singer midgets, Louis Vasshek & Dora Vieg, 11/3/24, 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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Police Dept. swears in Singer midgets, Louis Vasshek & Dora Vieg, 11/3/24
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Two performers from Singer's Midgets, Louis Vasshek and Dora Vieg, are the subjects here, shown being sworn in by a police department on November 3, 1924. The troupe was a touring vaudeville act, and staged swearing-in ceremonies like this one gave both police departments and performers a bit of newspaper attention while the act was in town. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that photographed the city and its visitors for decades, made the negative, which later came to the Library of Congress as a gift. The glass plate shows streaks and blemishes from natural deterioration of its coating, a common sign of wear in negatives of this age.
| Created / published | [19]24 November 3. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp note: Batch three. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,264 × 4,215 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-241868 |
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