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Underwood & Underwood President Roosevelt and Booker Washington reviewing the 61 "Industry" floats .

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06449.43 Author/Creator: Underwood & Underwood Place Written: Tuskegee, Alabama Type: Photograph Date: 1905 Pagination: Stereoview. The picture bears the publisher's number 7832. Order a Copy

Roosevelt and Washington are in the center of the picture, flanked by a sizable crowd. A lone black man stands guard in the foreground.

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Underwood & Underwood
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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