President Taft and Gen. Clarence Edwards riding horses – Historic Reproduction
(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 historic photograph of President Taft and Gen. Clarence Edwards riding horses brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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President Taft and Gen. Clarence Edwards riding horses
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Taft, who took office as president in March 1909, is shown on horseback beside Gen. Clarence Edwards, an Army officer. The image survives as a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early 1900s. Its title comes from caption information the agency recorded, which the Library of Congress notes has not been independently verified. Pictures like this one show how presidents were photographed outdoors, away from formal portraits, during the first year of Taft's administration.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,836 × 4,242 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4454 |
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