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Packers representatives and employees call at White House – Historic Print

Packers representatives and employees call at White House, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Packers representatives and employees call at White House, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the White House 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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A window into the past: Packers representatives and employees call at White House, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A group identified on the caption card as Packers representatives and employees has come to call at the White House, and the record offers no further detail about who they were. The card is undated and its notes are marked as unverified, so the exact year and occasion remain unknown. Delegations like this were common in the early twentieth century, when business and labor groups regularly traveled to Washington to present concerns or pay respects to the president, and press photographers often recorded their arrivals on the grounds. Pictures of this kind show how the executive mansion served as a meeting point between private industry and the federal government.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 12195 RU. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160441

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