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Franklin Roosevelt portrait collection

Title: Franklin Roosevelt portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1928?-1945?>

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Roosevelt, Franklin	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<13> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
<4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Collection includes views of Roosevelt's first and fourth presidential inauguration, touring and dining with Brazilian President Getulio Vargas, meeting Liberian President Edwin Barclay and Haitian President Elie Lescot, and receiving various groups such as OPM Fair Employment Practice Committee, with Mark Ethridge, Earl B. Dickerson, John Brophy, Milton P. Webster, David Sarnoff and Lawrence Cramer, at the White House. Also one image of Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at an Urban League dinner attended by Hubert Delany and W. Rockefeller. Harry Hopkins and Jefferson Cattery are pictured with FDR on one occasion. Full, half and quarter length portraits are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1920-1939.
Group portraits – 1930-1949.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1920-1949.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include Roger Smith, Percy Rainford, International News Photos and others.
Some photographs have captions.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Roosevelt, Franklin

OCLC

NYPG087000377-F

Title

Franklin Roosevelt portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1928?-1945?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Smith, Roger. Photographer

Rainford, Percy. Photographer

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)

United States. Army Air Forces.

Press Association, Ltd.

United States. Office of War Information.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Roosevelt, Franklin

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