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[President Franklin D. Roosevelt, bust portrait, facing front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[President Franklin D. Roosevelt, bust portrait, facing front], c1933. — historic photograph
[President Franklin D. Roosevelt, bust portrait, facing front], c1933.. 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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Step back in time with [President Franklin D. Roosevelt, bust portrait, facing front], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[President Franklin D. Roosevelt, bust portrait, facing front]

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Roosevelt's face is the entire subject here: a frontal bust portrait made around 1933, the year he took office as the 32nd president. The print carries a Pach Bros. copyright notice, and Pach Bros. was a New York studio whose portraits of prominent sitters circulated widely in the early 1930s. Pictures like this one were produced for newspapers, magazines and public distribution, which helped shape the image of a president who spoke directly to Americans through radio and was photographed often during the Great Depression. The straight-on pose and plain background keep attention on his expression.

Created / publishedc1933.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesJ13176 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Pach Bros., N.Y.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,322 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-201853

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