Tweet Random drab couple traveling in 1910s maybe to Hollywood

what can you say about this photo?
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This sure looks like a young Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt...

Yes, it is. Maybe it's unfair to call them drab since we don't know what color Eleanor's dress is though Franklin is more than likely wearing a dark suit as most men in those days did when traveling. I thought the fact that Franklin is standing tall would throw folks off expecting him in a wheelchair.

The wheelchair didn't come until the Twenties.

This might be Young NY State Senator Roosevelt, or possibly Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Imagine being in perfect health and going for a swim in a body of water and then contracting POLIO immediately afterward resulting in loss of leg usage and being in a wheelchair. Still quite an accomplishment becoming President with this disability. WH did a great job of keeping that issue from the public. Great photo of them at that time though.

Jack Kennedy sometimes used crutches, too; those were also generally hidden.