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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt
Artist
Ransburg-Burns Studio, 1900 - 1910?
Sitter
Theodore Roosevelt, 27 Oct 1858 - 6 Jan 1919
Date
c. 1904
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 19.5 × 24.2 cm (7 11/16 × 9 1/2")
Sheet: 20.4 × 25.3 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16")
Topic
Costume\Headgear\Hat
Exterior
Weapon\Gun\Rifle
Nature & Environment\Plant\Tree
Nature & Environment\Animal\Horse
Vehicle\Carriage
Symbols & Motifs\Flag\National\United States
Theodore Roosevelt: Male
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\State Legislator\New York
Theodore Roosevelt: Literature\Writer
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\Vice-President of US
Theodore Roosevelt: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt: Natural Resource Occupations\Explorer
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\Governor\New York
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\President of US
Theodore Roosevelt: Education and Scholarship\Scholar\Historian
Theodore Roosevelt: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist
Theodore Roosevelt: Natural Resource Occupations\Agriculturist\Rancher
Theodore Roosevelt: Nobel Prize
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Joanna Sturm
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
S/NPG.81.40
Exhibition Label
Born New York City
This documentary news photograph shows President Roosevelt, his wife, and entourage, flanked by an honor guard of soldiers, arriving at Cemetery Hill on the Gettysburg battlefield, where he delivered an address on the Civil War’s legacy. Prior to the speech, the presidential party had toured the battlefield and listened to Union generals Dan Sickles and O. O. Howard discuss their part in the battle; Sickles had lost his leg in savage fighting in the Peach Orchard. Roosevelt’s speech repeated the theme of sacrifice that Abraham Lincoln had posed in the Gettysburg Address of 1863. He concluded by maintaining that the North and South were now unified in the joint losses they had suffered during the war: “All are at one now, the sons of those who wore the blue and the sons of those who wore the gray.”
Nacido en la ciudad de New York
En esta fotografía de prensa aparecen el presidente Roosevelt, su esposa y su comitiva flanqueados por una guardia de honor al llegar a Cemetery Hill, en el campo de batalla de Gettysburg, donde Roosevelt pronunciaría un discurso sobre las secuelas de la Guerra Civil. Antes del discurso, el presidente y sus acompañantes recorrieron el campo escuchando a los generales norteños Dan Sickles y O. O. Howard narrar sus intervenciones en la lucha. Sickles había perdido una pierna en una encarnizada batalla en Peach Orchard. Roosevelt repitió el tema del sacrificio ya expuesto por Abraham Lincoln en su discurso de Gettysburg en 1863, concluyendo que al norte y al sur los unían ahora las pérdidas que ambos habían sufrido en la guerra: “Todos son uno ahora, los hijos de los que vistieron de azul y los hijos de los que vistieron de gris”.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view