Polo Game, T. Roosevelt – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Polo Game, T. Roosevelt. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Polo Game, T. Roosevelt
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Few sports suited Theodore Roosevelt's restless energy better than the fast, hard-riding game of polo, though this glass negative does not record the exact occasion. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, documented many public figures at outdoor events, but the title here comes from unverified caption data, so it may reflect the agency's own labeling rather than a confirmed match. Roosevelt, president from 1901 to 1909, cultivated an active outdoor life, and pictures like this one show how the public was encouraged to see him: vigorous, athletic, and often in motion.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10509 |
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