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Boston millionaire may be next labor secretary / Underwood & Underwood, Washington. – Antique Print

Boston millionaire may be next labor secretary / Underwood & Underwood, Washington., 1929 June 13. — historic photograph
Boston millionaire may be next labor secretary / Underwood & Underwood, Washington., 1929 June 13.. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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Step back in time with Boston millionaire may be next labor secretary / Underwood & Underwood, Washington., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A Boston merchant best known for the department store his family built, Edward A. Filene is shown here in a June 1929 Washington press portrait, when newspapers reported he might be named the next secretary of labor. He never took the post. President Herbert Hoover chose William N. Doak in 1930. Filene was a known advocate of profit sharing and cooperative credit unions, which explains why labor policy was part of the speculation. The Underwood & Underwood agency specialized in news and portrait photographs of public figures in the capital.

Created / published1929 June 13.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesNo. 68256RU.
SubjectsFilene, E. A. (Edward Albert),--1860-1937.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,307 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180619

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