Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PRESIDENTS.) Vote Against Schlosser! Vote Against Yale! . . . Vote for Roosevelt for the Senate. Letterpress broadside, 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches; horizontal fold, moderate wear and toning, paper clip stain, mount remnant along top edge, unrelated pencil plat map on verso. No place, [1910]

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A poster from FDR's first political campaign in 1910. He was an unknown 28-year-old Wall Street lawyer when asked to run for a New York State Senate seat on the strength of his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt's name. He won the seat after a strong anti-corruption campaign. This broadside implores that "Putnam County needs a clean sweep and New Men at Old Albany. . . . Progressive men are wanted to clean conditions in Legislature."