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Montauk Point, Rough Riders, Col. Roosevelt – Historic Print

Montauk Point, Rough Riders, Col. Roosevelt, [1898] — historic photograph
Montauk Point, Rough Riders, Col. Roosevelt, [1898]. Historic photograph 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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A window into the past: Montauk Point, Rough Riders, Col. Roosevelt, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Taken at Montauk Point, the camp at the eastern tip of Long Island, this portrait shows Theodore Roosevelt in the late summer of 1898, after the Rough Riders returned from Cuba. The regiment was held at Montauk while it recovered from fever, and Roosevelt, who had led the cavalry up San Juan Hill that July, was by then a celebrated colonel. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a prominent photographer of the era, made the image, and the cyanotype process gives it the deep blue tone typical of the period's contact prints.

Created / published[1898]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Cyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesTitle from item. No. 61368. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsRoosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Military service. United States.--Army.--Volunteer Cavalry, 1st.--People.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,131 × 5,137 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-225010

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