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[Walter W. Liggett, half-length portrait, facing front holding issue of Plain Talk"]" – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Walter W. Liggett, half-length portrait, facing front holding issue of Plain Talk"]", [1929] — historic photograph
[Walter W. Liggett, half-length portrait, facing front holding issue of Plain Talk"]", [1929]. 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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[Walter W. Liggett, half-length portrait, facing front holding issue of Plain Talk"]"

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In this portrait, Walter W. Liggett, the Minneapolis journalist, faces the camera and holds up a copy of *Plain Talk*, the muckraking magazine that carried his exposés of political and criminal corruption in the late 1920s. The picture dates to 1929, when Liggett was building a reputation as one of the Midwest's most combative reporters. He had long attacked city officials and their ties to organized crime in Minneapolis, a campaign that made him many enemies. He was shot to death outside his home in December 1935, and his murder was never solved. The photograph shows him as a man who chose to make his name by publishing the stories others wanted buried.

Created / published[1929]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsLiggett, Walter W. (Walter William),--1886-1935.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193469

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