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[Left to right: George and Ira Gershwin seated, three-quarter length portrait] – Historic Photograph Print

[Left to right: George and Ira Gershwin seated, three-quarter length portrait], [between 1920 and 1930(?)] — historic photograph
[Left to right: George and Ira Gershwin seated, three-quarter length portrait], [between 1920 and 1930(?)]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: [Left to right: George and Ira Gershwin seated, three-quarter length portrait], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Left to right: George and Ira Gershwin seated, three-quarter length portrait]

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George and Ira Gershwin sit side by side in this three-quarter length portrait, the two brothers who became one of the most celebrated songwriting teams in American theater. George, the younger by two years, was already writing popular songs for Broadway in the early 1920s, while Ira, the lyricist, would go on to craft words for many of their shows. The record dates the picture only loosely, to sometime between 1920 and 1930, and identifies it as a copy of a photograph kept by the Gershwin family, which is why it sits in the Library of Congress's collections of portraits of notable people.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1930(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1920-1930.Portrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesCopy of photograph from Gershwin family.
SubjectsGershwin, George,--1898-1937. Gershwin, Ira,--1896-1983.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,128 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162328

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