Hoover at Arlington, 5/30/29 – Vintage Wall Art
![Hoover at Arlington, 5/30/29, [19]29 May 30. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c3/c3d6e1f36bb0-L.webp)
(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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Hoover at Arlington, 5/30/29 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hoover at Arlington, 5/30/29
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Most pictures on this board show Herbert Hoover in formal settings, but this glass negative places him at Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1929, the day the nation set aside for honoring its war dead, which had been known as Decoration Day before it became Memorial Day. Hoover had been inaugurated as the 31st president only a few months earlier, in March of that year, so the visit came early in his term. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented public life in the capital for decades, made the negative, and its glass plates remain valuable records of the period. Note that the title comes from the company's own notes and has not been independently verified, and the surface streaks and blemishes are signs of age in the original coating.
| Created / published | [19]29 May 30. |
|---|---|
| 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 negative or negative sleeve. 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 four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,568 × 4,393 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-246933 |
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