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Theodore Roosevelt in 1916

  • ARTIST: Pirie Mac Donald

  • MEDIUM: Photogravure.

    DATE: 1916

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 5 5/8 x 3 13/16" (14.3 x 9.7 cm)

  • DESCRIPTION: Pirie Mac Donald. (1867-1942) American portrait photographer, New York City civic leader, and peace advocate. He photographed over 70,000 men in the span of his career, including international heads of state, religious leaders, and artists.<br><br> Pirie MacDonald described Theodore Roosevelt’s sitting in 1915 as one of his most difficult, and it is not hard to speculate why. Roosevelt had recently returned from an expedition in South America, where he contracted malaria and an infection in his leg, both of which would plague him the rest of his life. <br><br> Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919. Twenty-sixth President of the United States.

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  • CONDITION: Good condition.

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