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Circus Baby: 1926
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 12:58pm.
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Washington, D.C. "Alice Longworth & Paulina at circus. May 11, 1926." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
Alice at the Circus
Submitted by Alicefan on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 11:47am.
Never saw this picture of Alice before. I collect pics of her and have very few of her smiling. She had great bone structure. I think she is about 43 years old here, slim as a teenager, straight back. Cute.
Alice
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 1:48am.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was a very colorful character. Her father, President Theodore Roosevelt, once said, "I can run the country or I can control Alice. I can't do both." Feisty Alice used to sneak onto the White House roof to smoke and was known to carry a snake in her purse to shock her dates.
Alice R Longworth
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 12:15am.
Alice had a needlepoint pillow on a settee in her parlor, rather famously embroidered with this sentiment: "If you haven't anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me."
Ringling, Barnum & Bailey
Submitted by PER on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:53pm.
According to Washington Post accounts at the time, this would have been the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus which set up at Camp Meigs (now site of the Florida Market in northeast DC). Highlights included 35 elephants, 200 horses and a pageant of "jewel floats" drawn by trained zebras and llamas. May Wirth, star equestrienne, did the Charleston on horseback.
Circus Babe
Submitted by Su on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 7:33pm.
Interesting. I thought she looked like her grandfather, TR, quite a bit.
Circus Babe
Submitted by An Aesthete's Lament on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 5:14pm.
And that baby truly does look like her putative father, Senator Borah ... Nice to see Alice Roosevelt Longworth smiling!
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