President Harding's Special on Alaskan Railway, the President in engine cab – Antique 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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President Harding's Special on Alaskan Railway, the President in engine cab comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 Harding's Special on Alaskan Railway, the President in engine cab
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Here the President himself is in the cab of a locomotive, during Warren G. Harding's special train trip over the Alaska Railroad in the summer of 1923. It was the first time a sitting president had traveled to Alaska, and the tour was meant to showcase the territory's rail line and its development. Harding died in San Francisco that August, before he completed the journey home, which gave the trip a lasting place in his story. Keystone View issued this stereograph around 1923, and cards like it were sold to be viewed through a stereoscope, so the scene would appear in three dimensions.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers, c1923. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | J263848 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18579. |
| Subjects | Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel),--1865-1923--Journeys--Alaska. Railroad locomotives--Alaska--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,274 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179721 |
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