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Gov. Roosevelt launches work on new freight terminal – Historic Reproduction

Gov. Roosevelt launches work on new freight terminal — historic photograph
Gov. Roosevelt launches work on new freight terminal. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gov. Roosevelt launches work on new freight terminal. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, then governor of New York, is the focus of this 1932 photographic print, which records him at the start of work on a new freight terminal. Public works ceremonies like this one were a staple of his governorship, when state officials turned construction starts into occasions to show progress on jobs and infrastructure during the early years of the Great Depression. Roosevelt was preparing his run for the presidency that year, and images of him at such events helped build the public face that carried him to the White House in 1932.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1932]
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Public appearances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187420

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