Hoover – Antique 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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This historic photograph of Hoover brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This 5-by-7-inch glass negative carries only one word of identification, "Hoover," a title the Bain News Service recorded on its caption cards and that the Library of Congress lists as unverified. George Grantham Bain's New York agency sold news photographs of public figures to newspapers, so the plate probably shows someone in the public eye. Herbert Hoover fit that description as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s and as president from 1929 to 1933. The record gives no date, so the occasion cannot be confirmed, but the glass format points to the agency's early working years, when news pictures were made on large glass plates.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,334 × 4,903 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31730 |
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