Roosevelt watching snake fight, Sao Paolo – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Roosevelt watching snake fight, Sao Paolo. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Roosevelt watching snake fight, Sao Paolo
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Set in São Paulo, this scene shows Theodore Roosevelt during his 1913 to 1914 journey through South America, a trip he made after leaving the presidency. The title describes him watching a snake fight, but that detail comes from unverified Bain News Service data, so the event is best read as recorded rather than confirmed. The image survives as a single glass negative in the George Grantham Bain Collection, the agency's large body of press photographs now held by the Library of Congress. Its small glass format is typical of the news photography of that period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,104 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16567 |
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