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Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930 President Lights Community Christmas Tree

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09957.40 Author/Creator: Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 24 December 1935 Pagination: 1 photograph Order a Copy

One portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated December 24, 1935. Pictured is the president with his son, James Roosevelt and Theodore A. Walters, assistant Secretary of the Interior during a Christmas lighting ceremony in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
Walters, Thomas, A., fl. 1935

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