Taft speaking from train, Waterloo, Iowa – 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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Taft speaking from train, Waterloo, Iowa comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Taft speaking from train, Waterloo, Iowa
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Speaking from a train in Waterloo, Iowa, William Howard Taft addresses a crowd gathered by the tracks in 1908, the year he won the Republican presidential nomination and went on to be elected. Appearances like this were a staple of American campaigning before radio and television, when a candidate would make brief speeches from a railcar at each stop along a route. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers, made this glass negative, preserving a moment that shows how politicians reached voters in the Midwest.
| 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 | 3,000 × 2,193 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3482 |
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