Franklin D. Roosevelt – Antique 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
A window into the past: Franklin D. Roosevelt, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, made this glass negative, and its title, Franklin D. Roosevelt, comes from caption cards whose accuracy has not been verified, so the sitter and date remain uncertain. The Bain agency sold news photographs of politicians, public figures and current events from about 1900 through the 1920s, and Roosevelt was a rising national figure in that period, serving as assistant secretary of the Navy before his 1920 run for vice president. Glass plates like this one were the standard working medium of news photographers of the day, which makes the negative a useful record of how such portraits were made and distributed.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,703 × 5,003 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38447 |
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