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Kermit Roosevelt wading in river in Mesopotamia in 1918 – Vintage Wall Art

Kermit Roosevelt wading in river in Mesopotamia in 1918 — historic photograph
Kermit Roosevelt wading in river in Mesopotamia in 1918. 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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This historic photograph of Kermit Roosevelt wading in river in Mesopotamia in 1918 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Kermit Roosevelt wading in river in Mesopotamia in 1918

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Kermit Roosevelt, the second son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is shown wading through a river in Mesopotamia, the region that is now Iraq. He had joined the British Army during the First World War and later served in the Mesopotamian campaign, where Britain fought the Ottoman Empire along the Tigris and Euphrates. The photograph dates from 1918 but was not published until March 1925, so it captures a casual moment of wartime travel rather than a staged public event. It is a useful glimpse of the Roosevelt family's ties to the war beyond the Western Front.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1925 March 10, from a photo taken in 1918.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Kermit,--1889-1943--Journeys.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210398

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