Feb 11, 2010 - Sale 2202

Sale 2202 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE; AND HIS CABINET. Large Photograph Signed, by him, as President, and by 9 members of his Cabinet, group portrait by Harris & Ewing, showing a conference table in the White House Cabinet Room around which sit the President and, from the left, Secretary of War William Howard Taft ("WmHTaft"), Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou ("Geo. B. Cortelyou"), Secretary of State Elihu Root, Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock ("E.A. Hitchcock"), Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw ("LMShaw"), Attorney General William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Victor H. Metcalf ("V.H. Metcalf"). Signed in the blank bottom margin below the relevant portrait. Photographer's imprint in the image, lower left. Approximately 9 1/2x16 1/2 inches (image), approximately 12 3/4x19 inches overall; small semi-circular tear repaired at top center, even toning, mounted to a larger card; matted and framed. [Washington, 1906]