Portraits of America

Art Brown and family. Brown family reading in chair I

1937·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
Art Brown and family. Brown family reading in chair I, 1937 (Library of Congress)
Art Brown and family. Brown family reading in chair I, 1937 (Library of Congress)
Download full resolution

Free to use. Public domain. No account needed.

341 × 420 px·License & reuse terms


1 negative : safety ; 8 x 10 in.


The Library of Congress holds this 1937 negative by Theodor Horydczak showing Art Brown and family members reading together in a chair. Horydczak was a commercial photographer working in Washington, D.C., and his photographs are preserved as a named collection at the Library.

The negative measures 8 by 10 inches and was made on safety film. The record identifies this as the first in a series of images depicting the Brown family reading, though it provides no further information about the family members, their relationship to one another, or the circumstances of the sitting.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.


Credit: Library of Congress
Reuse: Public domain. Free to download, print, edit and republish, commercially or otherwise. How rights work in this archive.