Secret Service men at Roosevelt Home, Oyster Bay, New York – Historic 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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A window into the past: Secret Service men at Roosevelt Home, Oyster Bay, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Secret Service men at Roosevelt Home, Oyster Bay, New York
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Secret Service men gathered at Sagamore Hill, the Oyster Bay, New York home of Theodore Roosevelt, in September 1908, during the final months of his presidency. Roosevelt had made the estate his summer and weekend retreat, and by then the agents assigned to guard the president were a fixture there, a reminder of the threats he had faced since William McKinley's assassination in 1901. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the Bain News Service archive of glass negatives that documented American news from the early twentieth century. Its title and date come from the Bain caption data, which the Library of Congress notes is unverified, so the identities of the individual men are not recorded here.
| Created / published | Sept. 1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,792 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3549 |
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