Nat'l Dem. Conv., 1924 – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Nat'l Dem. Conv., 1924. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Nat'l Dem. Conv., 1924
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Few national conventions dragged on as long as the Democrats' 1924 meeting in New York, which convened at Madison Square Garden in the summer heat and took 103 ballots before delegates chose John W. Davis. This glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines and recorded much of the political life of the period. The convention was also marked by a bitter floor fight over whether to condemn the Ku Klux Klan by name, a plank that was narrowly rejected and that exposed deep divisions within the party. Keep in mind that the title comes from the original cataloging notes, which were not verified, so the scene should be read with some caution.
| Created / published | 1924 |
|---|---|
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,090 × 3,697 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38450 |
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