Crowd for Taft, St. Louis, MO. – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Crowd for Taft, St. Louis, MO., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Crowd for Taft, St. Louis, MO.
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A crowd gathered in St. Louis in 1908 for William Howard Taft, the Republican nominee that year, and this glass negative captures the size of the turnout. Political gatherings of the period often filled streets and public squares, with people arriving by streetcar and on foot, and photographers working for agencies such as the Bain News Service supplied images to newspapers eager for them. The title comes from information the agency recorded on the negative or its caption card and has not been independently verified, so the exact location and occasion are worth checking. Taft won the presidency that November.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,842 × 4,285 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3506 |
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