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[Joseph William Martin, 1884-1968, bust portrait, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[Joseph William Martin, 1884-1968, bust portrait, facing right] — historic photograph
[Joseph William Martin, 1884-1968, bust portrait, facing right]. 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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Step back in time with [Joseph William Martin, 1884-1968, bust portrait, facing right], 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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[Joseph William Martin, 1884-1968, bust portrait, facing right]

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Shown in a bust portrait turned toward the right, Joseph William Martin Jr. appears in a photograph dated around 1940, several years into his long service in the U.S. House of Representatives. A Republican from Massachusetts, Martin was first elected to Congress in 1924 and became a leading voice for his party in the House, serving as minority leader for much of the 1940s. He later served as Speaker of the House twice, from 1947 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1955. The record says little about the setting or photographer, so the print's main value lies in documenting a figure central to mid-century party politics.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,218 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127435

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