Taft on campaign train at Redfield – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Taft on campaign train at Redfield in remarkable 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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Taft on campaign train at Redfield
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Few stops on William Howard Taft's 1908 presidential campaign were as small as Redfield, a railroad town in South Dakota, where this picture shows the Republican candidate with his campaign train. Nominees of that era relied heavily on rail travel, so depots and station platforms became the setting for short speeches to crowds who had come to see them. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency whose glass negatives documented many such appearances. The record dates it to September 29, 1908, but notes that the title information is unverified.
| Created / published | 9/29/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 3,000 × 2,211 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3488 |
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