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Hotel American, Saratoga, N.Y. – Historic Print

Hotel American, Saratoga, N.Y., [1904] — historic photograph
Hotel American, Saratoga, N.Y., [1904]. Historic photograph from the Saratoga 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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Hotel American, Saratoga, N.Y.

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The Hotel American in Saratoga Springs carries a Democratic banner naming Alton B. Parker for president and Henry G. Davis of West Virginia for vice president, the party's 1904 ticket. Parker, a New York judge, was nominated that summer and ran against the sitting Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, and a second banner behind the hotel appears to name Roosevelt. Saratoga's hotels drew wealthy summer visitors and political figures, which made them natural places for campaign displays. The glass negative came from the Detroit Photographic Company, whose views of American towns and resorts were widely sold in the early 1900s.

Created / published[1904]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCampaign banner: Regular democratic nominatio[ns] ... Alton B. Parker; ... for vice president, Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. Background banner is for Theodore G 2327" and "Detroit Photographic Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017898. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPresidential elections. Banners. Hotels. Resorts.United States--New York (State)--Saratoga Springs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61519

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