FDR discovered hiding in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Laying Keel of U.S.S. Battleship Number 39, Arrival of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Others, 03/16/1914

While scanning a series of glass plate negatives from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, an alert staffer noticed the image of the future president in full stride during a visit to see the keel laying of Battleship #39 (aka the ill-fated USS Arizona) on March 16, 1914.  Roosevelt would have been Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time, and well before he was crippled by polio.

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*Update 3/15/2012 12:55pm - Date of the photo has been corrected to 3/16/1914

Source: arcweb.archives.gov

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