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H. C. White Co. Pres. and Mrs. Roosevelt in Carriage with Pres. Francis, Pres. Roosevelt's visit to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06449.52 Author/Creator: H. C. White Co. Place Written: St. Louis, Missouri Type: Photograph Date: 1905 Pagination: Stereoview. Publisher's number : 8607. Order a Copy

A side view of the carriage, near an ornately decorated building. At the picture's right edge, Mrs. Roosevelt, her body in profile facing proper right, looks directly at the viewer. President Roosevelt, sitting on her right, gazes downwards.

H.C. White Co., fl. 1902-1905
Francis, David Rowland, 1850-1927
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Progressive Era
President
First Lady
Women's History
Louisiana Purchase
Expositions and Fairs
The Politics of Reform

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