Robert Alphonso Taft, 1889-1953 – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Robert Alphonso Taft, 1889-1953, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Robert Alphonso Taft, 1889-1953
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Robert A. Taft, the Ohio lawyer and later long-serving U.S. senator, is the figure this 1930 portrait shows, dated February 5 of that year, when he was a rising figure in Ohio politics. He would go on to be known as "Mr. Republican" for his influence on conservative policy in the Senate, and his 1952 bid for the party's presidential nomination came close to succeeding. The record is brief and notes that its caption-card data is unverified, so the exact occasion for the sitting is not recorded. Portraits of Taft from this period are useful for seeing how a Midwestern professional politician presented himself as the Depression deepened.
| Created / published | 1930 Feb. 5. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 70445 RU. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 949 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171293 |
More from the Historic Print Archive collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
