Governor Woodrow Wilson shaking hands with Benjamin Tillman – Vintage Print
![Governor Woodrow Wilson shaking hands with Benjamin Tillman, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ee/ee86753f6778-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of Governor Woodrow Wilson shaking hands with Benjamin Tillman brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Governor Woodrow Wilson shaking hands with Benjamin Tillman
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A handshake between two Democrats of very different temperament sets this photograph apart: Woodrow Wilson, then governor of New Jersey, greets Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina, the fiery populist known as "Pitchfork Ben." Tillman built his career on agrarian grievances and was a leading voice for white supremacy in the South, while Wilson, a former Princeton president, was positioning himself as a national reformer. The caption card gives no date, so the occasion is uncertain, but such a meeting would have reflected the party's effort to bridge Northern and Southern wings before the 1912 presidential contest. The posed, formal look is typical of political photographs of the period.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; BI; Shelf. Sources checked: ONC. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,274 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142330 |
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