Sunday, September 16, 2018

President Roosevelt Riding a moose across a River?

President Theodore Roosevelt riding a moose across a river in 1908.

Source: Reddit
This photo is a fake. It was created for a political ad when Teddy Roosevelt was running for the presidency for the Progressive Party, whose mascot was the moose. During this election, Roosevelt was running against Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, and William Howard Taft, the Republican incumbent. The photography firm of Underwood and Underwood carefully cut a photograph of Roosevelt on a horse and superimposed it on the image of a moose crossing a river. This image appeared in the September 8, 1912, edition of the New York Tribune. 
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http://historydaily.org/60-jarring-nature-photos/5

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