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[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head and shoulders, facing front, speaking before microphone] – Historic Reproduction

[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head and shoulders, facing front, speaking before microphone] — historic photograph
[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head and shoulders, facing front, speaking before microphone]. 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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Here Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown from the head and shoulders, facing the camera and speaking into a microphone, a pose that captures him mid-address. The record dates the print to around 1943, a year when the United States was deep into World War II and Roosevelt was delivering frequent wartime radio talks and public appeals. Portraits like this one were widely circulated by newspapers and government agencies, and they helped shape how Americans saw their wartime president: steady, direct, and speaking straight to the public.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1943?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,120 × 4,073 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128632

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