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[Everett Dirksen] – Vintage Wall Art

[Everett Dirksen] — historic print
[Everett Dirksen]. Historic print 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: [Everett Dirksen], preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Everett Dirksen, the Illinois Republican who served in the U.S. Senate from 1951 until his death in 1969, is the subject of this halftone print, a reproduction made by a photomechanical process that turned a photograph into a pattern of tiny dots suitable for newspapers and magazines. Dirksen was known for his resonant voice and his skill as a Senate minority leader, and portraits of him circulated widely during his years in Washington. The caption card records no date, so the exact year of printing is unknown, but the halftone technique itself was the standard way such images reached the public in the first half of the twentieth century.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,512 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118938

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