Jan 30, 2003 - Sale 1958

Sale 1958 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
MOFFETT ROOSEVELT AND JOHNSON. 1912.
24 3/4x18 1/2 inches. Allied Printing, New York City.
Condition B: tears through bottom margin affecting text; wrinkles and creases in margins; discoloration. Paper.
A scarce and unusual black and white photmontage poster for Roosevelt's failed attempt to rewin the Presidency in 1912. In order to run against the Republican party, of which he had been a stalwart member all of his life, Roosevelt formed the Bull Moose Party, and campaigned against William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson.