Helen Taft at von Steuben unveiling – 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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Helen Taft at von Steuben unveiling
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Helen Herron Taft, wife of President William Howard Taft, appears at the unveiling of the von Steuben monument, a statue of the Prussian-born officer who drilled the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1778. The statue stands in Lafayette Square in Washington, across from the White House. Bain News Service, a press agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs, made this glass negative, and its caption data is unverified, so the exact occasion and date are uncertain. Still, the image shows how ceremonies like this one drew official families and crowds to public monuments in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,823 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10127 |
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