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Roosevelt and his cabinet
This photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt and his cabinet was taken by the noted Washington studio Harris and Ewing in 1906, an especially production year for the reform-minded administration. That year, Roosevelt signed the Hepburn Act, which increased federal regulation of such giant monopolies as John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and JP Morgan's Northern Securities Company, which were fixing railroad shipping rates to their advantage. Roosevelt also signed the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, as well as the Meat Inspection Act, to provide basic levels of consumer protections. As president, he initiated more conservation measures than all of his predecessors combined, including the Antiquities Act of 1906, which designated eighteen new national monuments. And for his efforts the previous year to mediate a successful end to the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.
Harris and Ewing Studio, 1906 |