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Charles J. Brand, Chief of the Office of Markets, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. – Historic Reproduction

Charles J. Brand, Chief of the Office of Markets, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1913 — historic photograph
Charles J. Brand, Chief of the Office of Markets, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1913. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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Charles J. Brand, Chief of the Office of Markets, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

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Charles J. Brand led the Office of Markets within the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1913, the year the office was taking shape as part of the department's effort to help farmers get fair prices and better information about where their crops were sold. This portrait comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made in Washington and New York in the early twentieth century. Its formal pose and plain studio setting reflect the period's conventions for official portraits of government officials. The image offers a glimpse of the federal bureaucracy as it expanded during the Progressive Era.

Created / published1913
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection.
SubjectsBrand, Charles John,--1879-1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan985 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170585

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