- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Roosevelt Signs Social Security Act
- Date of Original:
- 1935-08-14
- Subject:
- United States. Social Security Act
Government officials--American--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940
Social security--1930-1940
Document signings--1930-1940 - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965
Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. He read this statement upon signing the act: "We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."
Standing behind Roosevelt, left to right: Rep. Robert Doughton, man obscured behind him, Senator Robert Wagner (with folded hands), Rep. John Dingell, Sr., unidentified man with bow tie, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, man obscured behind her, Senator Pat Harrison (with cigar), Rep. David J. Lewis.
Acme Newspictures photograph.
Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). - Local Identifier:
- Call Number/Physical Location: NYWTS - BIOG--Roosevelt, Franklin D., President--Signing Bills [item] [P&P]
Digital Id: cph 3c23278 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c23278
Library of Congress Control Number: 00649636
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-123278 (b&w film copy neg.) - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/social-security-act/franklin-d-roosevelt_002-2/
- Original Collection:
- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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