Rare "Plan and Design for the Roosevelt Memorial in the City of Washington." John Russell Pope, Architect. Submitted to The Congress of the United States by the Roosevelt Memorial Association, Pursuant to the Joint Resolution of Congress, Approved by the President, February 12, 1925. With six drawings from the architect's design made by Otto R. Eggers, four double-page and two single page, each plate identified on the previous page, brown cloth-covered boards and tissue wrapper, housed in the original box. New York: The Pynson Printers, Inc., December 1925. Together with seven photographs of Theodore Roosevelt, two with a group of men including military at a ceremony, two with a group of men on a train, and three each of a dinner.Box: H: 14.75 in., W: 12 in., D: 0.75Photograph mounted on cardboard: 7.875 in. x 9.875 in.Remaining: 14 x 11 inchesThe collection of six drawings are from Pope's winning entry for the proposed, but never built, permanent memorial to Theodore Roosevelt.

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14.75 x 12 x 0.75 in