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[Sinclair Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Sinclair Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1900 and 1940] — historic photograph
[Sinclair Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1900 and 1940]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Sinclair Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Sinclair Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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Novelist Sinclair Lewis is shown in this head-and-shoulders portrait, turned to the right, from a period between 1900 and 1940, the years when he moved from a small-town Minnesota upbringing to national fame. Lewis satirized American middle-class complacency in novels such as *Main Street* (1920) and *Babbitt* (1922), and in 1930 he became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Portraits of writers from this era were often made for magazines, book jackets and publicity, so images like this one helped shape how the public pictured the author of such pointed social criticism.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1940.Photographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesUnprocessed in PR 06 CN 347.
SubjectsLewis, Sinclair,--1885-1951.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,078 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165750

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