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The Parlor is the only room in which there is any suggestion of formality – Antique Print

The Parlor is the only room in which there is any suggestion of formality, [published 1902] — historic print
The Parlor is the only room in which there is any suggestion of formality, [published 1902]. Historic print 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 print of The Parlor is the only room in which there is any suggestion of formality brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The parlor at Sagamore Hill, the Oyster Bay, New York, home of Theodore Roosevelt, is the room the caption singles out as the only one with any real formality. Roosevelt built the house in the mid-1880s and used it as his family's country seat, and in 1902, while he was serving as president, *Town & Country* ran this view in its June 7 issue on pages 10 and 11. The picture is a halftone, a process that let magazines reproduce photographs cheaply alongside their text, so it shows how readers of the period first saw the inside of a president's home.

Created / published[published 1902]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910.
NotesReference copy in PRES FILE. Illus. in: Town & country, 1902 June 7, pp. 10-11.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Homes & haunts--New York (State)--Oyster Bay. Parlors--New York (State)--Oyster Bay--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-164920

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