Crowd for Taft at Allis-Chalmers Works, West Allis – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Crowd for Taft at Allis-Chalmers Works, West Allis, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Crowd for Taft at Allis-Chalmers Works, West Allis
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Taken at the Allis-Chalmers works in West Allis, Wisconsin, this view shows a crowd gathered for William Howard Taft in 1908, the year he won the Republican presidential nomination and then the election to succeed Theodore Roosevelt. The company was one of the largest industrial employers in the Milwaukee area, building heavy machinery such as engines, mining equipment and turbines, so a campaign event there would have drawn factory workers as well as local residents. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, produced many negatives like this one for newspapers, and the image shows the large open-air gatherings typical of that era's campaigns.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,835 × 4,297 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3458 |
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