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[Henry and Clare Booth Luce on sofa with portable radio and pet cocker spaniel] – Historic Reproduction

[Henry and Clare Booth Luce on sofa with portable radio and pet cocker spaniel] — historic photograph
[Henry and Clare Booth Luce on sofa with portable radio and pet cocker spaniel]. 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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Henry and Clare Booth Luce are shown at home on a sofa, with a portable radio nearby and a cocker spaniel keeping them company. Henry Luce had founded Time in 1923 and launched Life in 1936, while Clare had already won fame as a playwright with *The Women* that same year. Around 1941, with war raging in Europe and the United States debating whether to enter, many families gathered around their radios for the latest news, which makes the set here a telling detail. The relaxed domestic scene offers a glimpse of two people who were otherwise very much in the public eye.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1941.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,217 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124700

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