Rain-Drenched Crowds hear President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rochester, New York
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Rain-Drenched Crowds hear President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rochester, New York
1936
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/8 × 8 9/16 in. (16.9 × 21.7 cm)
Paper: 7 1/16 × 9 in. (18 × 22.9 cm)
Gift of Richard E. Kremer, M.D. and Andrea M. Kremer, Ph.D., 2023
2024.0001.0007
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil and upside down, TL: (illegible) 3681; stamped in purple ink, TL: REF. DEPT. \ 10- 20 36 \ N.E.A.; stamped in pink ink and upside down, TR: (illegible and covered by applied label); stamped on applied label and upside down, BC: W367245 \ RAIN-DRENCHED CROWDS HEAR PRESIDENT. \ A DRIVING RAIN FAILED TO SCATTER THOUSANDS OF \ LISTENERS AS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, ENDING HIS \ CAMPAIGN TOUR OF THE MIDWEST STATES, SWUNG \ BACK INTO THE EMPIRE STATE AND SPOKE AT (underlined) ROCH- \ ESTER, N.Y., OCT. 17. THE HUGE THRONG, WHICH \ BROKE DOWN POLICE ARRANGEMENTS DESPITE THE \ RAIN, HEARD THE PRESIDENT ASK FOR THE RE-ELEC- \ TION OF GOV. HERBERT H. LEHMAN. THIS PHOTO \ SHOWS THE THRONG STANDING PATIENTLY IN THE \ RAIN AS THE PRESIDENT SPOKE. \ CREDIT LINE (ACME) 10/17/36
