Gov. Sproul of PA – Historic Photograph Print
![Gov. Sproul of PA, [1922] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9d/9d1c9896aaa8-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Gov. Sproul of PA, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gov. William Cameron Sproul, who led Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923, is the subject of this glass negative, one of many portraits the National Photo Company made of public figures in Washington and across the country in the early 1920s. The company, which operated from about 1908 to the early 1930s, produced large numbers of press and studio images that newspapers and magazines could reproduce quickly. Its glass plates were often sold or donated in batches, and collectors and archivists later preserved them as a record of the era's political life. The negative's streaks and blemishes are typical of aging emulsion, so the image is best appreciated as a document of the period rather than a crisp modern portrait.
| Created / published | [1922] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. Temp. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,388 × 4,333 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-235359 |
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