Taft at Los Angeles – Historic 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 Taft at Los Angeles. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Taft at Los Angeles
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This glass negative is titled "Taft at Los Angeles," placing William Howard Taft, president from 1909 to 1913, in the city. The title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its card, and that information has not been independently verified, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Presidents of that era often made long rail tours and stopped in major western cities to speak and greet crowds, and Bain's agency, based in New York, sold such pictures to newspapers that wanted images of national figures. Its glass plates are valued today as a record of how press photography covered public life in the early 1900s.
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,697 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11084 |
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