Title from caption on object: “Roosevelt Asks ‘All the Help I Can Get’”

June 24, 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.7 × 21.6 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 17.7 × 23 cm (6 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.313

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Henry Yee, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, center printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM WASHINGTON / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / ROOSEVELT ASK "ALL THE HELP I CAN GET" / IN A PLEA FOR "ALL THE HELP I CAN GET," / PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FACED A BATTERY OF MICROPHONES / NIGHT OF JUNE 24 TO VIRTUALLY ASK THE PEOPLE XXX / TO VOTE FOR "LIBERAL" CANDIDATES IN THE COMING / ELECTIONS. ABOVE, THE PRESIDENT IS SHOWN FACING / THE MICROPHONES XXXX FOR HIS FIRESIDE CHAT IN / SPECIAL RADIO ROOM IN GROUND FLOOR OF WHITE / HOUSE. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / 10:20 PEST AHH 6/24/38 BC / WX ADC (NEG TO NY)

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