[Franklin D. Roosevelt and others posed under large guns on battleship] – Antique Print
![[Franklin D. Roosevelt and others posed under large guns on battleship], [between 1940 and 1945] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a5baac4a0798-L.webp)
(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 [Franklin D. Roosevelt and others posed under large guns on battleship] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt stands among a group of officials beneath the massive gun turrets of a battleship, a setting that speaks to his deep ties to the Navy. Roosevelt had served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I and retained a lifelong fondness for naval affairs, so a shipboard portrait like this one fits his wartime role as commander in chief. The photograph comes from the Harold L. Ickes collection, and the notes credit the Department of the Navy and the U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau, suggesting it was made for official use during the war years. The guns overhead dwarf the men below, a reminder of the industrial scale of the naval buildup of the early 1940s.
| Created / published | [between 1940 and 1945] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1940-1950.Group portraits 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Department of the Navy; Courtesy of U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau. Harold L. Ickes collection. |
| Subjects | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Staff. Government officials--United States--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,137 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167612 |
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