Helen Taft in Glacier Nat'l Park - holding Sacred Wimpuss Skin – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Helen Taft in Glacier Nat'l Park - holding Sacred Wimpuss Skin. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Helen Taft in Glacier Nat'l Park - holding Sacred Wimpuss Skin
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Here Helen Herron Taft, wife of President William Howard Taft, is pictured in Glacier National Park holding an object the caption calls a "Sacred Wimpuss Skin," a name the Bain News Service recorded without verification, so its spelling and meaning deserve caution. The park had been created in 1910, and the Bain agency, a New York news photo business, supplied images of prominent people and places to newspapers in the early 1900s. No date is recorded, so the photograph is best read as a record of how public figures were shown on western travels during that period.
| 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 | 5,747 × 4,173 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12004 |
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