[F.D. Roosevelt at helm of Ship of State" - forward with Roosevelt"; Eleanor Roosevelt is beside him and ships and planes are in background. Prominent blacks?]" – Historic Print
![[F.D. Roosevelt at helm of Ship of State" - forward with Roosevelt"; Eleanor Roosevelt is beside him and ships and planes are in background. Prominent blacks?]", c1934 Dec. 31. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d1/d1fb7898d6ed-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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This rare historic photograph captures [F.D. Roosevelt at helm of Ship of State" - forward with Roosevelt"; Eleanor Roosevelt is beside him and ships and planes are in background. Prominent blacks?]" in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[F.D. Roosevelt at helm of Ship of State" - forward with Roosevelt"; Eleanor Roosevelt is beside him and ships and planes are in background. Prominent blacks?]"
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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt stand together at the helm of a painted ship of state, with vessels and airplanes filling the background, in an allegory built on the slogan "Forward with Roosevelt." The ship-of-state metaphor was a long-standing political image, and the slogan points to the 1932 presidential campaign, when Roosevelt challenged Herbert Hoover. The catalog record attributes the painting tentatively to an anonymous Black artist and flags that attribution as unverified, so the maker and the identities of the other figures the record mentions remain open questions.
| Created / published | c1934 Dec. 31. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | etc. Blacks in WWI and in Education. This record contains unverified |
| Subjects | J15996 U.S. Copyright Office Photo of painting by Gulbrand Gilbert Sethes. Second card attached to first reads: F.D.R. and Eleanor--Campaign poster by anon. black artist c. 1932? . "Ship of State. Forward with Roosevelt" primitive style allegory with prominent blacks of the period Bunche |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,340 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131589 |
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