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The autograph collector – Antique Wall Art

The autograph collector — historic print
The autograph collector. 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: The autograph collector, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The autograph collector is a 1937 item from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, and its title points to a hobby that was popular long before the internet made signatures easy to trade. Collectors of the 1930s often sought letters, documents and signed photographs from public figures, and the pursuit carried a certain charm of persistence and luck. The record gives little beyond the title and year, so the image is best read as a glimpse of a pastime from that decade, when personal contact with famous names still counted for a great deal.

Medium1 item.
Notes1937
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,028 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120760

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