President Roosevelt as he signed the declaration of war against Japan, 1941 Dec. 8 and the President signing the declaration of war against Germany on December 11 – Vintage 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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This historic print of President Roosevelt as he signed the declaration of war against Japan, 1941 Dec. 8 and the President signing the declaration of war against Germany on December 11 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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President Roosevelt as he signed the declaration of war against Japan, 1941 Dec. 8 and the President signing the declaration of war against Germany on December 11
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Two images on one sheet show Franklin D. Roosevelt at the desk where he signed the declarations of war, first against Japan on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and then against Germany on December 11. The pair appeared as halftone reproductions in the *Sunday Star* on January 21, 1945, so the printed page preserves a newspaper's view of wartime leadership three years after the signings. The dates come from a caption card that has not been independently verified, so the sequence is worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1945 Jan. 21. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 photomechanical prints : halftones. |
| Notes | 2 halftone reproductions of photoprints from the Sunday Star, 1945 Jan. 21. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,031 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160024 |
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