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December 22, 1924. "J.E. Hoover, Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice." A young J. Edgar Hoover, age 29, director of the government agency that we know today as the FBI. National Photo glass negative. View full size.
Awesome photo! J. Edgar Hoover as he was... in the time of Lovecraft!
When I looked at this picture the first time, for a moment I saw a younger Rudolph Giuliani.
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