Men going to call on Pres. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, Illinois – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Men going to call on Pres. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, Illinois in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Men going to call on Pres. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, Illinois
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Taken at Oyster Bay in September 1908, this photograph shows a group of men calling on President Theodore Roosevelt during the last year of his second term. The title places the village in Illinois, but Oyster Bay is on the north shore of Long Island in New York, where Roosevelt kept his summer home, Sagamore Hill, and often received visitors. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photography agency that supplied pictures to newspapers, so it is a working news photograph of the kind published at the time. The record does not name the men, so their identities should be checked before the picture is cited.
| Created / published | Sept. 1908. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,792 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3535 |
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