Dated c1902 January 24:
The future Alice Roosevelt Longworth would have been nearly 18. She moved into the White House in 1901, and as Thomas Mallon writes in The New York Times:
“The new president is said to have remarked to the writer Owen Wister: ‘I can be president of the United States — or — I can attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both!’ The first daughter chewed gum, smoked in public, carried a snake to parties and ran up debts playing poker and buying clothes.”
The photograph was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, who was one of the first prominent female photographers in the U.S.
(Image via Library of Congress)
Erica Ryan 