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  Commemorative WWI Photographs of future 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Lake Torpedo Boat Company; Signed by Him While He Could Still Walk

  ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs.

  Bridgeport, CT: Lake Torpedo Boat Co, c. May 20, 1918.

  Rare vintage photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, signed by him. Two gelatin silver photographs showing FDR on his May 20, 1918 visit to Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first of Roosevelt seated next to various officials on the speaker's stand, and the second of Roosevelt and the same group of men walking past a building on the plant site. Signed by him on the lower right of the mat of each photograph, "Franklin D Roosevelt." Matted and framed with a manuscript caption, "Lake Torpedo Boat Co Bridgeport, Conn, May 20, 1918." On that date in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Roosevelt spent an incredibly busy day visiting no fewer than four munitions plants, a naval base, and the state armory. The submarine-manufacturing plant, Lake Torpedo Boat Company, was one of the first stops on Roosevelt's itinerary. While there, Roosevelt gave an address from the company launching platform to about 1,700 workers, in which he spoke about the importance of building an American fleet of submarines that could seek out and destroy German U-boats. Roosevelt toured N-class and O-class submarines then under various stages of manufacture at the plant, attended a flag-raising ceremony, and greeted many employees and naval officers. Local newsp...

  Price: $2,750.00     Item Number: 147241

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