Judge Ames & Judge Payne – Antique Photo Print
(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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Judge Ames & Judge Payne comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Judge Ames & Judge Payne
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Two men stand in a 1920 courtroom in Washington, D.C., photographed on the morning they answered a suit brought by William Randolph Hearst. Judge Ames, counsel for the United States Shipping Board, and John Barton Payne, the board's chairman, were responding to Hearst's request for an injunction that would delay the sale of vessels seized from German owners during the First World War. The case grew out of the postwar scramble over the former German merchant fleet, a dispute over how and when those ships would be disposed of. The National Photo Company made this glass negative, and its record preserves the court-day moment in a sharply documented way.
| Created / published | 1920 Feb. 16. |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption from caption list: Judge Ames, counsel for the Shipping Board and Mr Payne the Shipping board chairman photographed in court this morning when they answered the suit of Hearst for an injunction to delay the sale of The German Merchant vessels. Date from caption list. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Subjects | Payne, John Barton,--1855-1935. Judges. Judicial proceedings. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,110 × 4,186 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-230497 |
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