George Woodward Wickersham, 1858-1936 – Historic Print
(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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George Woodward Wickersham, 1858-1936 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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George Woodward Wickersham, 1858-1936
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Wickersham, a New York lawyer, is shown in this 1929 portrait, a studio-style head-and-shoulders view issued by Underwood & Underwood, a news photo agency that supplied images to newspapers across the country. He had served as U.S. Attorney General under President William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1913. Later that same year he was appointed to chair the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, which studied Prohibition and is widely called the Wickersham Commission. The date comes from an unverified caption card, so it is worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1929 Jan. 3. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Underwood & Underwood. No. 66556RU. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,091 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155705 |
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