Brown park sign welcoming visitors to Theodore Roosevelt Island – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Brown park sign welcoming visitors to Theodore Roosevelt Island, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Brown park sign welcoming visitors to Theodore Roosevelt Island
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Few things mark the Potomac shoreline quite like the wooden-looking brown sign that greets visitors to Theodore Roosevelt Island, a 88.5-acre wooded refuge in the river just north of Washington. The island was set aside in memory of the 26th president, who championed conservation and the creation of national parks and forests during his time in office from 1901 to 1909. Its trails, swamp and forest were preserved largely as a natural landscape, a deliberate contrast to the monumental city across the water. Signs like this one show how the National Park Service presented the island to the public as a place for quiet walks and reflection.
| Original scan | 2,592 × 1,944 px · prints to 9 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 129164675_1e85f2c02c_o IMG_2755 jplouis |
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