Chicago welcomes President and Mrs. Coolidge – Historic Reproduction
![Chicago welcomes President and Mrs. Coolidge, [1927?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a3/a3f77ef303dd-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Chicago welcomes President and Mrs. Coolidge. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chicago welcomes President and Mrs. Coolidge
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A civic welcome for a sitting president is the subject here, and the caption names Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge as the honored guests, with the date given only as approximately 1927. Coolidge served as president from 1923 to 1929, a period when presidential trips drew large crowds and gave local officials a chance to show civic pride. Chicago, one of the nation's major rail and industrial centers, was a regular stop for such visits. The print is worth a closer look as a record of how these receptions were staged and photographed, in an era when news pictures were a main way Americans saw such events.
| Created / published | [1927?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Subjects | Coolidge, Calvin,--1872-1933--Journeys--Illinois--Chicago. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,281 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179385 |
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