Hoover & Boy Scouts – Historic Reproduction
![Hoover & Boy Scouts, [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7f/7fdc3b913b8e-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hoover & Boy Scouts. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hoover & Boy Scouts
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Few pictures on this board place Herbert Hoover among young people quite like this one, which pairs him with Boy Scouts. Hoover was a longtime supporter of scouting, and the Boy Scouts of America grew considerably during the years he served as Commerce Secretary and then as president. The negative comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., firm that recorded politics and public life in the early twentieth century, and the title was written by the company rather than independently confirmed. Look for the streaks and speckling on the glass, which come from age in the original coating rather than anything in the scene.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1932] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Date span reflects dates range of negatives in collection. 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 four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,235 × 4,239 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-247620 |
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