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Edit: Update, ALL OF THESE ARE DONE

Currently missing going back to 1970:

To generate this table, run /usr/scripts/getPhoto/checkMissing.py. You can modify a variable in that script to change the cutoff congress back further.

If any of you want to work on this, name your file xxxxxx.jpg or xxxxxx.png -- note that this is SIX digits, so prepend a 0. Put the file in /usr/scripts/getPhoto/manual/. Then run /usr/scripts/getPhoto/manual/resize_and_copy to deploy. Make sure to then push and commit to git to ensure it's stored in our repo for deployment later.

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I went and got a bunch more photos from the original version of the above list, so we are only missing 4 photos going back to 1970. Smith, Royer, Hutchinson, and Carlson were all special elected and then failed to be renominated, and thus are absent from the US Congressional pictorial directories for their respective congresses.

Maybe we can aim to be photo complete back to 1960 (72 missing photos) or 1950 (66 more) by launch? The Congressional Pictorial Directory exists back to 1953 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Pictorial_Directory for a clearinghouse that links to each version), and it's public domain, so absent edge cases like the above we should be able to fill out at least that far.

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I have photos (sorta) for all four of the 1970+ congressmen we were missing. Onto the next milestone.

(I also contacted Diane Mizrachi with UCLA libraries to see if she had any suggestions about almanacs or anything that might have some of the missing photos)

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Found other sources of public domain member photos:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
(Names are sometimes iffy--so it takes a bit of searching)

"Who's Who In State Politics", a series of books issued about Massachusetts state politicians, which includes many photos that are not a part of the bioguide.

"New York State Men: Biographic Studies and Character Portraits"

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We are missing 4 photos from the 115th -- I expect these to be resolved when the Congressional bioguide gets official photos for them.

Edit: Done, got them all.

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"Find a Grave" has a shocking number of early newspaper photos and other sources of photos for early members. Almost all of them appear to be public domain or sourced from newspapers that are no longer published or solvent, and those that are unsourced appear to be official photos.

Might even be worth automating a scan of it.

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This issue was moved to voteview/member_photos#1

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