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[Rep. Alvin E. O'Konski, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, holding fountain pen] – Vintage Wall Art

[Rep. Alvin E. O'Konski, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, holding fountain pen], [between 1943 and 1953] — historic photograph
[Rep. Alvin E. O'Konski, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, holding fountain pen], [between 1943 and 1953]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Shown seated at a desk with a fountain pen in hand, Alvin E. O'Konski faces the camera in this half-length studio portrait. O'Konski, a Wisconsin Republican, entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1943, and this image dates from between that year and 1953. It was made by Blackstone Studios of New York and belongs to the Library of Congress's Congressional Portrait Collection, which documents members of Congress in the mid-twentieth century. The desk and pen were common props in official portraits of the period, meant to suggest a legislator at work on his papers.

Created / published[between 1943 and 1953]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1940-1960.Photographic prints 1940-1960.
NotesPhotograph from Blackstone Studios, Inc., New York. No. 487A. Forms part of: Congressional Portrait Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsO'Konski, Alvin E. (Alvin Edward),--1904-1987.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194620

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