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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Ship "Game Cock" Built by S. Hall~East Boston 1850
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Ship "Game Cock" Built by S. Hall~East Boston 1850

Object numberMO 1948.41.6
Publisher (American, 1893 - 1942)
Date1924
Mediumpaper
Dimensionsframe H 21 in x W 27 in x D 3/4 in (53.3 cm x 68.6 cm x 1.9 cm )

DescriptionA hand tinted lithograph of the clipper ship, GAME COCK. It depicts a side view of the three-masted ship at full sail in open water. An American flag flies at the stern. Printed at the bottom of the image: © / Copyright 1924. Foster Bros. Boston / A. CLIVE EDWARDS. The publisher's information and the title is printed centered below the image: Published by Foster Bros. Arlington and Boston, Mass. / Ship "Game Cock: Built by S. Hall~East Boston 1850.

The print is glazed and framed in 1" black wood frame with gilt inner trim.
Label TextThis print of the GAME COCK (1850) is one of ten maritime pictures (MO 1948.41.1-10) that had hung in FDR's New York office at the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland when he was a Vice President of the Company from 1920-1928. They stayed there until FDR sent them in 1933 to Basil O'Connor as a gift. O'Connor, in turn, presented the pictures to the FDR Library in 1947.

Daniel Basil O'Connor (1892-1972) was a longtime friend and political adviser to FDR. He was Roosevelt's law partner from 1925 to 1933, and later served as president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis-March of Dimes drive against poliomyelitis.
Additional Details
Credit LineGift of Basil O'Connor
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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