Coolidge presents Walter Johnson with 1924 American League Diploma, 6/18/25 – Vintage Print
![Coolidge presents Walter Johnson with 1924 American League Diploma, 6/18/25, [19]25 June 18. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/617d6b8c5bd3-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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Step back in time with Coolidge presents Walter Johnson with 1924 American League Diploma, 6/18/25, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Coolidge presents Walter Johnson with 1924 American League Diploma, 6/18/25
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Here President Calvin Coolidge hands Walter Johnson a diploma marking the 1924 American League championship, the season the Washington Senators won their only pennant of that era. Johnson, the hard-throwing right-hander known as the Big Train, spent nearly his entire career in Washington, so a presidential ceremony in the capital made natural sense. The picture is a National Photo Company glass negative, a format that preserved many Washington scenes from the 1910s and 1920s. The plate's streaks and blemishes come from the deterioration of its original coating, so the image is softer in places than the moment itself.
| Created / published | [19]25 June 18. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,234 × 4,221 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-243146 |
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