President Roosevelt taking the oath of office, Mar. 4 1905 – Vintage Print
(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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President Roosevelt taking the oath of office, Mar. 4 1905 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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President Roosevelt taking the oath of office, Mar. 4 1905
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Theodore Roosevelt is shown taking the oath of office on March 4, 1905, the day he was sworn in for his first full term after assuming the presidency following William McKinley's assassination in September 1901. The record names Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller, who administered the oath, placing the moment in the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Roosevelt had won the 1904 election by a wide margin, and the ceremony marked the start of a term in which he pursued trust-busting, conservation of public lands, and the building of the Panama Canal. Photographs of inaugurations from this period are valuable because they record the formal ritual of the office at a time when still cameras were only beginning to capture such events in detail.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H57292 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Inauguration, 1905. Fuller, Melville Weston,--1833-1910--Public appearances. Oaths--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. Presidential inaugurations--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,229 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109039 |
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