Hoover & Duquesne Univ. of Pittsburgh football team, 11/8/29 – Vintage Print
![Hoover & Duquesne Univ. of Pittsburgh football team, 11/8/29, [19]29 November 8. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a8/a8c069561c0b-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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A window into the past: Hoover & Duquesne Univ. of Pittsburgh football team, 11/8/29, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hoover & Duquesne Univ. of Pittsburgh football team, 11/8/29
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A sitting president posing with a college football squad is an unusual subject, and this November 1929 view shows Herbert Hoover with the Duquesne University team from Pittsburgh. Hoover had taken office only eight months earlier, in March 1929. Duquesne, founded in 1878 as a Catholic school, fielded football teams in that era. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington studio that recorded officials and public occasions. Its glass negative shows the streaks and blemishes that typically develop as the original coatings deteriorate.
| Created / published | [19]29 November 8. |
|---|---|
| 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 negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,647 × 4,585 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-247168 |
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