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OriginalFirst Lady of the United States Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Reason
I love what Frances Benjamin Johnston did with sepia for this. She must have felt so clever, contrasting the white lace with the sepia colours on the dress. Plus, Edith herself was arguably a Civil Rights advocate - at least a fan of Booker T. Washington - and an interesting person. It's slightly cropped in her article with {{CSS image crop}}, which saves on inappropriate crops to the original while fitting it slightly better to a thumbnail.
Lots of scratches and dust; nothing too hard to handle, just a time-consuming careful restoration. I tweaked the levels a bit to bring out the detail.
Articles in which this image appears
Edith Roosevelt; also in a gallery at Frances Benjamin Johnston
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
Frances Benjamin Johnston, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:04, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]