Mounting Roosevelt elephant – Vintage 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Mounting Roosevelt elephant. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mounting Roosevelt elephant
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Here the subject is Theodore Roosevelt himself, caught in the act of mounting an elephant, an unusual image for a sitting president. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption data written on the negative by the Bain News Service, which the Library of Congress describes as unverified, so the exact occasion remains uncertain. The Bain agency was a New York photo service that supplied newspapers with pictures of public figures in the early twentieth century, and Roosevelt, known for big-game hunting and a vigorous public image, was one of its frequent subjects.
| 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 | 5,785 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10102 |
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