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[Theodore Roosevelt, head and shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval] – Antique Photo Print

[Theodore Roosevelt, head and shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval] — antique engraving
[Theodore Roosevelt, head and shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval]. Antique engraving from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Theodore Roosevelt, head and shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval], preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Theodore Roosevelt, head and shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval]

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Theodore Roosevelt appears here in a head-and-shoulders portrait turned to the right and framed within an oval, a format that was a long-standing convention for engraved likenesses of public men. Steel engraving allowed fine line work and crisp detail that could be reproduced in large numbers, so prints like this one circulated in books, periodicals and parlors. The caption card records no date, so the exact moment of production is uncertain, but the engraved oval portrait belongs to a tradition that flourished in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Roosevelt rose from New York politics to the presidency in 1901.

Medium1 print : steel engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,158 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133403

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