Hoover – Historic 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hoover. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hoover
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The only identifying detail in this record is the name Hoover, taken from Bain News Service caption cards and not yet verified, on a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain News Service was a New York agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers, and its glass plates document many public figures of the early twentieth century. Herbert Hoover, the subject of this board, was a mining engineer and Secretary of Commerce before serving as the 31st president from 1929 to 1933. Without a date, the occasion is uncertain, but the Bain holdings are valued for their portraits of officials and public events.
| 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 | 3,346 × 4,915 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31733 |
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