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- Representative John Dingell and Attorney General Janet Reno in Henry Ford Museum, May 23, 1994 - United States Representative John Dingell and Attorney General Janet Reno were photographed in Henry Ford Museum's <em>The Automobile in American Life</em> exhibit, with museum president Harold Skramstad, in May 1994. Reno and Dingell were at the museum to attend a conference for municipal leaders.
- May 23, 1994
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Representative John Dingell and Attorney General Janet Reno in Henry Ford Museum, May 23, 1994
United States Representative John Dingell and Attorney General Janet Reno were photographed in Henry Ford Museum's The Automobile in American Life exhibit, with museum president Harold Skramstad, in May 1994. Reno and Dingell were at the museum to attend a conference for municipal leaders.
- Life Magazine for January 26, 1962, "Hard-headed, Hard-driving Kid Brother" - Kennedy family members often appeared on the covers of <EM>Life</EM> magazines during the early 1960s, attracting attention and increasing magazine sales. This <EM>Life</EM> cover story features President Kennedy's "kid brother" Robert. As the President's Attorney General and most trusted adviser, "Bobby" Kennedy was called in this article "a political phenomenon such as never quite existed before in the United States."
- January 26, 1962
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Life Magazine for January 26, 1962, "Hard-headed, Hard-driving Kid Brother"
Kennedy family members often appeared on the covers of Life magazines during the early 1960s, attracting attention and increasing magazine sales. This Life cover story features President Kennedy's "kid brother" Robert. As the President's Attorney General and most trusted adviser, "Bobby" Kennedy was called in this article "a political phenomenon such as never quite existed before in the United States."
- U.S. Attorney General Charles Devens, 1877 - Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This 1877 example made in Boston, Massachusetts, depicts Charles Devens, U.S. Attorney General under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
- 1877
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U.S. Attorney General Charles Devens, 1877
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This 1877 example made in Boston, Massachusetts, depicts Charles Devens, U.S. Attorney General under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
- Portrait of Edward Bates, 1861-1864 - Edward Bates, Attorney-General of the United States under Abraham Lincoln, posed for this carte-de-visite in New York City. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.
- 1861-1864
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Portrait of Edward Bates, 1861-1864
Edward Bates, Attorney-General of the United States under Abraham Lincoln, posed for this carte-de-visite in New York City. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.
- "Mr. Kennedy Goes to Washington," 2024 -
- 2024
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"Mr. Kennedy Goes to Washington," 2024
- Letter from John Adams Endorsing Richard Rush for Attorney-General of the United States, 1814 -
- April 06, 1814
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Letter from John Adams Endorsing Richard Rush for Attorney-General of the United States, 1814
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 1807 - President Thomas Jefferson nominated Caesar A. Rodney from Delaware to become Attorney General of the United States in early January 1807. Jefferson wrote to Rodney about the nomination and laid out his upcoming duties during the next court session. The Senate confirmed Rodney's nomination later that month. Rodney served as Attorney General for Jefferson and then continued under President James Madison until 1811.
- January 17, 1807
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Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 1807
President Thomas Jefferson nominated Caesar A. Rodney from Delaware to become Attorney General of the United States in early January 1807. Jefferson wrote to Rodney about the nomination and laid out his upcoming duties during the next court session. The Senate confirmed Rodney's nomination later that month. Rodney served as Attorney General for Jefferson and then continued under President James Madison until 1811.