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Archie Roosevelt and his friend the policeman – Historic Print

Archie Roosevelt and his friend the policeman, c1902 June 17. — historic photograph
Archie Roosevelt and his friend the policeman, c1902 June 17.. Historic photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Archie Roosevelt and his friend the policeman. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Archie Roosevelt, the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, appears here as a boy of about seven or eight, posing with a uniformed policeman who was evidently his friend. The Roosevelt children were a frequent subject of the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, who documented the family during their years in the White House from 1901 to 1909. Informal portraits like this one, with a child and an everyday public servant side by side, offered a warmer view of the presidential household than the formal state portraits of the era. The picture's date of June 17, 1902, places it during the family's first full summer in Washington.

Created / publishedc1902 June 17.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH19131 U.S. Copyright Office. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,230 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112917

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