President Theodore Roosevelt in Des Moines, 1903
President Theodore Roosevelt arrives by carriage to speak before a 1903 crowd gathered at Iowa's capitol.
Photographed by T.F. Shannon. Used with permission of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
©2005 State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
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