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[Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, full-length portrait, seated at desk, facing right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, full-length portrait, seated at desk, facing right], [1924 May] — historic photograph
[Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, full-length portrait, seated at desk, facing right], [1924 May]. Historic photograph 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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Seated at a desk and turned toward the right, Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau appears here in May 1924, five years after he became the public face of defeated Germany. He led the German delegation at the 1919 Paris peace talks and denounced the terms of the Treaty of Versailles before resigning rather than sign it. The Bain News Service, a New York agency, distributed portraits like this to newspapers, so the picture shows how German diplomats were presented to American readers in the years after the war.

Created / published[1924 May]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,064 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126974

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