President Taft's "Pierce Arrow" - auto with 6 cycle, 48hp, Washington, D.C. – Antique Wall Art
(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 President Taft's "Pierce Arrow" - auto with 6 cycle, 48hp, Washington, D.C. 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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President Taft's "Pierce Arrow" - auto with 6 cycle, 48hp, Washington, D.C.
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This glass negative shows a Pierce-Arrow automobile, a six-cylinder car rated at 48 horsepower, photographed in Washington, D.C. The record dates it to March 20, 1909, about two weeks after William Howard Taft's inauguration on March 4, so the picture captures the very start of his presidency. Pierce-Arrow, a Buffalo, New York maker of expensive touring cars, was a marque favored by well-off buyers of the period. The title comes from notes the Bain News Service wrote on its negatives and caption cards, so the attribution to Taft is worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 3/20/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,823 × 4,273 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4456 |
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