Lot 54
Hoover, Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover -- Signed Photo. Photo signed by President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, 10 x 6½", n.p., n.d. A full-length portrait in a wooded environment with an American flag in the left background. Both signatures are in blue ink, at lower edge. Fine. Both Hoovers attended Stanford University. Soon after their marriage the couple went to China, where Herbert worked as a mining engineer and where both Hoovers learned Mandarin Chinese (which they sometimes used in later life when they didn't want others to understand what they were saying). Herbert and Lou, who was a geologist and linguist, translated the 1556 mining classic De Re Metallica from the Latin. Their important scholarly version was published in 1912 and is still in print today. Lou Henry Hoover was the first First Lady to make regular, nationwide radio broadcasts to the American public. Estimate Value $300 - UP
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