President Roosevelt delivering his inaugural address in front of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. – Antique 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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This historic photograph of President Roosevelt delivering his inaugural address in front of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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President Roosevelt delivering his inaugural address in front of the Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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Theodore Roosevelt's second inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1905, is the event this stereograph preserves, with the president speaking before the Capitol's east front to a large crowd gathered on the grounds. Stereo cards like this one were sold by the thousands in the early 1900s, and International View Co. of Decatur, Illinois, issued this view as part of that trade. Roosevelt had taken office after William McKinley's assassination in 1901 and was elected in his own right in 1904, so the ceremony marked his first full term. The stereo pair's two slightly offset images, viewed through a hand viewer, would have given the crowd and the speaker a sense of depth that a flat photograph could not.
| Created / published | Decatur, Illinois : International View Co., c1905. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H59360 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Inauguration, 1905. Inaugurations--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,758 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215615 |
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