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[Theodore Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[Theodore Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1900. — historic print
[Theodore Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], c1900.. 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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Step back in time with [Theodore Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Theodore Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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Theodore Roosevelt appears here in a straightforward head-and-shoulders view facing the camera, the kind of image that made him recognizable to a national audience around 1900. He had risen quickly through New York politics and the Spanish-American War, and he was New York's governor by 1899, so his face was in high demand in newspapers and magazines. This example survives as a halftone, a process that broke a photograph into tiny dots so it could be printed in quantity on rotary presses. That reproduction method is part of what makes the image worth noticing: it shows how portraits of public figures traveled widely in the years before he became vice president in 1901.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePortraits 1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,284 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-192180

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