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[President Franklin D. Roosevelt, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, signing document] – Antique Photo Print

[President Franklin D. Roosevelt, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, signing document], 1935 — historic photograph
[President Franklin D. Roosevelt, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, signing document], 1935. Historic photograph from the Presidents 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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Roosevelt sits squarely at his desk in this half-length view, facing the camera as he signs a document, an everyday task that filled much of a president's working day. The record dates the print to 1935, but its subject heading and collection placement point to the 1940s, so the exact year is worth checking. If 1935 is correct, it was the year Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, a central measure of the New Deal. Newspaper photographers of the period often staged signing scenes like this one so readers could see the moment of approval.

Created / published1935
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesForms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945. Document signings--Washington (D.C.)--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,319 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204639

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