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[Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 1884-1951, head and shoulders, lighting cigar, left profile] – Vintage Print

[Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 1884-1951, head and shoulders, lighting cigar, left profile] — historic photograph
[Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 1884-1951, head and shoulders, lighting cigar, left profile]. 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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A window into the past: [Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 1884-1951, head and shoulders, lighting cigar, left profile], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 1884-1951, head and shoulders, lighting cigar, left profile]

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Shown in left profile and lighting a cigar, the sitter is Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, the Michigan Republican who served in the United States Senate from 1928 until his death in 1951. The caption card records no date, so the portrait is best placed within his long Senate career, which spanned the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War. Vandenberg is remembered for moving from a leading isolationist to one of the most influential Republican backers of bipartisan postwar foreign policy, including the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty. Informal images like this one, showing a politician off the podium, offer a useful contrast to the formal portraits usually made of senators.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,481 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126213

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