ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Photograph inscribed and signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, n.p., inscription dated 13 May 1907. 324 x 232 mm. (12 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.) including mount, embossed stamp of photographer "Copyright 1906 Clinedinst, Wash. D.C.," a tiny smudge at corner, otherwise in fine condition. A superb, dignified portrait of President Roosevelt, carnation in lapel, facing left. Boldly inscibed at bottom: "To A.S. Solomons Esq with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt May 13th 1907." Adolphus Simeon Solomons (1826-1910) owned a printing shop and bookstore in Washington D.C. which became "a literary headquarters for such men as Ulysses Simpson Grant and Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase." His imprint "Philip & Solomons" appears on many photographs of that era (including Alexander Gardner's famous last photograph of Lincoln (see Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs,, p.282.) In 1873 President Grant offered Solomons the post of mayor of Washington, which he declined "because his observance of the seventh-day sabbath would be incompatible with the duties of the office" (-DAB). In later years he was a philanthropist, a founder of Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals in New York, of the American Red Cross, and President of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Photograph inscribed and signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") as President, n.p., inscription dated 13 May 1907. 324 x 232 mm. (12 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.) including mount, embossed stamp of photographer "Copyright 1906 Clinedinst, Wash. D.C.," a tiny smudge at corner, otherwise in fine condition. A superb, dignified portrait of President Roosevelt, carnation in lapel, facing left. Boldly inscibed at bottom: "To A.S. Solomons Esq with the regards of Theodore Roosevelt May 13th 1907." Adolphus Simeon Solomons (1826-1910) owned a printing shop and bookstore in Washington D.C. which became "a literary headquarters for such men as Ulysses Simpson Grant and Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase." His imprint "Philip & Solomons" appears on many photographs of that era (including Alexander Gardner's famous last photograph of Lincoln (see Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs,, p.282.) In 1873 President Grant offered Solomons the post of mayor of Washington, which he declined "because his observance of the seventh-day sabbath would be incompatible with the duties of the office" (-DAB). In later years he was a philanthropist, a founder of Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals in New York, of the American Red Cross, and President of the Jewish Theological Seminary.