[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Signed Photograph of New York City's most popular mayor, the "Little Flower"

[Charles Agvent]

              LaGUARDIA,  Fiorello.  SIGNED  PHOTOGRAPH. An 8"  x  10"
          photograph  of  perhaps New York City's most  popular  mayor,
          often referred  to as "Little Flower" or "The Napoleon of New
          York" due  to his height of 5'2". Born of Jewish and  Italian
          parents,  LaGuardia  was elected to Congress in 1916  on  the
          Republican  ticket,  interrupting  his  term  to  serve  as a
          decorated  pilot on the Italian front in World War I. He  led
          the city  as  a  Republican mayor from 1933 to  1945  working
          closely  with  the  New  Deal  administration  of  Democratic
          President  Franklin  Roosevelt  to secure  federal  subsidies
          enabling  New  York City to build parks, low-income  housing,
          bridges,  schools,  and  hospitals  and  to  create  a  rapid
          transit  system that was one of the finest in the world.  The
          first three-term  New  York City mayor decided not to  seek a
          fourth  term  in  1945  and  died of  cancer  in  1947.  This
          photograph  shows  a serious LaGuardia and is  INSCRIBED  "To
          the Program/America  Speaks  to  Poland" and  SIGNED  by  the
          mayor.  Slight  defect in the image on the opposite  side  of
          the inscription  created  in the process of developing.  Fine
          and uncommon.                                         $450.00


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