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[Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. James (Betsy Cushing) Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, posed standing under big guns on battleship] – Vintage Wall Art

[Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. James (Betsy Cushing) Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, posed standing under big guns on battleship], [between 1940 and 1945] — historic photograph
[Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. James (Betsy Cushing) Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, posed standing under big guns on battleship], [between 1940 and 1945]. 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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Step back in time with [Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. James (Betsy Cushing) Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, posed standing under big guns on battleship], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few family portraits from the war years place relatives beneath the massive guns of a warship, and this one does. The title names Eleanor Roosevelt, James Roosevelt and his wife Betsy Cushing Roosevelt, and Sara Delano Roosevelt, the president's mother, posed together on a battleship between 1940 and 1945. The credit line to the Navy's recruiting bureau suggests the photograph was meant to link the Roosevelt family with the wartime fleet. It came to the Library of Congress through the collection of Harold L. Ickes, Roosevelt's secretary of the interior.

Created / published[between 1940 and 1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1940-1950.Portrait photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesDepartment of the Navy; Courtesy of U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau. Harold L. Ickes collection.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Family.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,119 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167610

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