Proposed cover art for Calvin Coolidge’s autobiography

[Anthony J. Bentley]

Hi,

I’m certainly jumping the gun a bit. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge was first published in 1929 and its copyright was renewed, so it won’t fall into the public domain until 2025. However, I found what I feel is the perfect cover for it and don’t want it to get lost.

The attached image depicts Coolidge taking the oath of office by lamp light at his homestead at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, not long after the untimely death of President Harding. Visible are his father, who being a notary public administered the oath, and his wife Grace.

This is cropped from a print I found at the Library of Congress and reuploaded to Wikimedia Commons:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsc.02899/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvin_Coolidge_taking_the_oath_of_office.tif

I hope the clear 1924 copyright on the print is enough proof for our requirements. If not—according to Coolidge’s chauffeur, Curtis Publishing Company commissioned a painting, likely this one, to illustrate a story in the April 1924 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, “The Midnight Oath.” Unfortunately I haven’t found any scans of that issue (HathiTrust only has up to March).

https://vermonthistory.org/documents/digital/McInerneyJosephMRemembers.pdf

Anyway, I’m not sure where or if potential covers are catalogued, but I just wanted to write this down for future reference.

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Anthony J. Bentley

[Alex Cabal]

Very nice! In 5 years come back to the list and you can produce this one :)

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