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This photo is from the White House Easter Egg Roll, circa 1905. It was apparently taken not long after passage of the All Americans Must Wear Hats Act, a controversial piece of legislation that President Theodore Roosevelt signed despite not being much of a hat-wearer himself. It was repealed during World War I, to the great relief of a nation oppressed by mandatory hat-wearing, as part of the Headgear To Wargear program, under which hats were cut into pouches in which soldiers could carry spare ammunition.
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