Theodore Roosevelt Visiting Ft. Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, TX
Theodore Roosevelt Visiting Ft. Worth, Texas

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Photo Credit University of Texas at Arlington Library - The Portal to Texas History
Date January 1, 1905
Category People

Description

Three photographs stitched together showing an enormous crowd gathered to greet President Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Texas and Pacific Railway Station. The crowd contains men and women, all wearing hats. The men wear suits and the women wear dresses or blouses and skirts. The train station is on the left side of the frame and on the right side, in the background, are several buildings including a drug store, a pharmacy, and a saloon. People are seated on rooftops and telephone poles. Throughout the photograph are telephone and electricity poles and on the far left side of the photograph is a train.

Swartz, C.L. Theodore Roosevelt Visiting Ft. Worth, Texas, photograph, 1905; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth41386/: accessed March 5, 2020), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas at Arlington Library.