Away from the cares of state - President Roosevelt ready to enter Yellowstone Park – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Away from the cares of state - President Roosevelt ready to enter Yellowstone Park in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Away from the cares of state - President Roosevelt ready to enter Yellowstone Park
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Theodore Roosevelt is shown here on the threshold of Yellowstone, the card's title casting him as a man stepping away from "the cares of state" to enter the park, with horses and a railroad car in view. Roosevelt visited Yellowstone in spring 1903, when he camped with naturalist John Burroughs and the park's superintendent, Samuel Young, and he was an avid outdoorsman who had long believed in preserving wild country. Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm, produced stereograph cards like this one by the thousands for home viewers, so the image was staged to tell a story about a president at leisure as much as to record a single moment. Its date of about 1902 places it just before that trip, a useful clue for anyone tracing how Roosevelt's public image mixed rugged outdoors with the presidency.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Underwood & Underwood, c1902. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H31554 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Theodore--1858-1919--Social life. Horses--Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910. Railroad passenger cars--Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,754 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif3f06231_AwayfromthecaresofstatePreside |
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