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[Theodore Roosevelt speaking to Veterans?] – Antique Print

[Theodore Roosevelt speaking to Veterans?] — historic photograph
[Theodore Roosevelt speaking to Veterans?]. 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 photographic print catalogued as Theodore Roosevelt speaking to veterans shows the president addressing an audience of former soldiers, with the question mark in its title signaling that the exact occasion is not firmly recorded. Around 1903, Roosevelt, then in his second year as president after William McKinley's assassination, regularly addressed veterans' groups, a constituency he valued for his own Spanish-American War service with the Rough Riders. Veterans' gatherings of this era often combined patriotic speeches with reunions of Civil War and later war veterans, so the picture offers a glimpse of a public ritual that shaped how the nation remembered its wars.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1903.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122894

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