Taft at launch of NEW YORK – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Taft at launch of NEW YORK, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Taft at launch of NEW YORK
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Here William Howard Taft, the 27th president, appears at the launch of the battleship *New York*, one of the U.S. Navy's dreadnought-era warships. Battleships were then the main measure of naval strength, so a launching drew officials, naval officers and onlookers to the shipyard. The glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied newspapers. Its title comes from caption data the service recorded, so the details of the event are not fully verified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,710 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11960 |
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