[Rarebooks] FS: Now here was a New York Mayor!

[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. 
(#010098)        $450.00

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