Historic Portrait - Christine Kempton & Warren Sweeney (announcer) – Vintage Photo Print
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Historic Portrait - Christine Kempton & Warren Sweeney (announcer) comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Historic Portrait - Christine Kempton & Warren Sweeney (announcer)
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Christine Kempton and Warren Sweeney are captured here as a pairing, with Sweeney identified as an announcer, a job that in the early 1940s meant reading station breaks, introducing programs, and often serving as the on-air voice of a show. Radio was then the main source of news and entertainment in American homes, and the people who spoke into the microphone were familiar names to listeners. The portrait comes from Harris & Ewing, the Washington, D.C., studio that photographed many government officials, diplomats, and public figures across the first half of the 20th century. Its formal studio style reflects how such sitters were usually presented.
| Created / published | [ca. 1940] |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Harris & Ewing |
| Original scan | 923 × 739 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HAR-100950 |
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