[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front, right hand on stairway post]

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This print reproduces a painted portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent, showing the president standing three-quarters length with his right hand resting on a stair post. Photographers often made copies like this so that a painting could reach a wider audience than the original, which was seen by few people. The photograph was taken by Clinedinst, a Washington, D.C., studio that made many portraits of officials during Roosevelt's presidency, which ran from 1901 to 1909. Reproductions of formal portraits like this one were widely sold and displayed in the early 1900s, and they shaped how the public pictured the president.

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