Famous movie sheik in Washington – 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.)
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Famous movie sheik in Washington comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Captioned "Famous movie sheik in Washington," this January 1926 photograph takes its label from the screen romances of the early 1920s. The sheik, a desert lover of the kind popularized by *The Sheik*, the 1921 hit starring Rudolph Valentino, became a durable movie type. The print is a photoprint by Underwood & Underwood, the firm known for large volumes of news and travel pictures, and it carries catalog number 53489. The caption details come from an unverified caption card, so the identity of the man pictured should be checked against other sources.
| Created / published | 1926 Jan. 29. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Underwood & Underwood. No. 53489. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152243 |
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