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Taft crowd on railroad tracks in West – Historic Reproduction

Taft crowd on railroad tracks in West, 1908 — historic photograph
Taft crowd on railroad tracks in West, 1908. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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This rare historic photograph captures Taft crowd on railroad tracks in West in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A crowd stands along the tracks in this 1908 view, captioned by the Bain News Service as a Taft gathering in the West. William Howard Taft was the Republican candidate for president that year, and campaigning by rail meant trains often stopped in small towns where residents turned out to see the candidate. The caption comes from unverified data, so the exact place and occasion remain uncertain, but the scene shows how railroads doubled as a public stage in early twentieth-century politics.

Created / published1908
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,785 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-4199

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