Eleanor Wilson -- (Mrs. W.G. McAdoo) in wedding dress – Historic Reproduction
(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: Eleanor Wilson -- (Mrs. W.G. McAdoo) in wedding dress, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Eleanor Wilson -- (Mrs. W.G. McAdoo) in wedding dress
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The subject here is Eleanor Wilson, the younger daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, shown in her wedding dress. She married William Gibbs McAdoo, then Secretary of the Treasury, in a White House ceremony in May 1914, one of the few weddings held in the executive mansion. The Bain News Service, a Washington-area press agency, made this glass negative, and its caption identifies the sitter as "Mrs. W.G. McAdoo," a title the record marks as unverified. Bain's glass negatives are valued today for documenting Washington society and official life in the years before World War I.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,247 × 5,728 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17038 |
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