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[Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, wearing inaugural gown] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, wearing inaugural gown], c1933. — historic photograph
[Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, wearing inaugural gown], 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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Eleanor Roosevelt stands full length in this portrait, dressed in the gown she wore for her husband's first inauguration in March 1933, just as Franklin D. Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression. The picture dates to about that year, the start of a 12-year tenure as First Lady that she would reshape. She used the role to speak on social issues, wrote a newspaper column, and held press conferences open only to women reporters. Formal studio portraits of the period usually stressed fine dress and upright posture, and this one follows that convention while showing a woman who would become one of the century's most visible public figures.

Created / publishedc1933.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesJ13153 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Eleanor,--1884-1962.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-189085

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