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Inaugural parade on Penn. Ave., Washington, D.C. – Antique Print

Inaugural parade on Penn. Ave., Washington, D.C., 3/4/09. — historic photograph
Inaugural parade on Penn. Ave., Washington, D.C., 3/4/09.. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Inaugural parade on Penn. Ave., Washington, D.C. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Pennsylvania Avenue, the ceremonial route between the Capitol and the White House, carried the procession that followed William Howard Taft's inauguration on March 4, 1909. Taft took the oath at the Capitol that day, and the parade that traditionally followed made its way down the avenue past crowds on the sidewalks. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of a news photography service that sold images to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its glass negative shows the formal pageantry of an inauguration taken in an era when press photographers relied on bulky glass plates.

Created / published3/4/09.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,766 × 4,248 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-4412

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