A. Mitchell Palmer – Antique Photo Print
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(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 A. Mitchell Palmer. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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The sitter is Alexander Mitchell Palmer, a Pennsylvania lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson from 1919 to 1921. The portrait's date, around 1920, places it in the year his Justice Department carried out nationwide raids on suspected radicals, which made him a central and polarizing figure of the postwar Red Scare. That year he also sought the Democratic presidential nomination. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio, made the image on a glass negative. The streaks and blemishes on the plate may reflect deterioration of its original coating rather than anything in the scene itself.
| Created / published | [1920] |
|---|---|
| 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 negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. 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 one. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,164 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-230772 |
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