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[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, at microphones, smiling] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, at microphones, smiling], [between 1933 and 1943] — historic photograph
[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, at microphones, smiling], [between 1933 and 1943]. 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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A window into the past: [Franklin Delano Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, at microphones, smiling], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Roosevelt appears here in a head-and-shoulders view, turned toward the right and leaning in toward a bank of microphones, with a visible smile that suggests he is mid-address or pausing between remarks. The photograph dates to the years between 1933 and 1943, the stretch that covers his first two terms in office, when radio fireside chats and press conferences made the microphone one of the central tools of his presidency. Pictures of him at the mic are a good record of how a president reached the public directly through the new broadcast medium during the Great Depression and the early years of the Second World War.

Created / published[between 1933 and 1943]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1950.Photographic prints 1930-1950.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Public appearances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,130 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168748

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