Crowd at railroad station hearing Taft speak from train, Ada, Minnesota – 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: Crowd at railroad station hearing Taft speak from train, Ada, Minnesota, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Crowd at railroad station hearing Taft speak from train, Ada, Minnesota
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Crowds gathered at the depot in Ada, a small town in northwestern Minnesota, to hear William Howard Taft speak from his train in 1908. That year Taft, the Republican nominee for president, campaigned extensively by rail, and brief stops where candidates addressed townspeople from the train were a standard part of American campaigning before radio. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, whose New York news photo service supplied images to newspapers across the country. Its glass negative records a moment when voters came to the railroad to see a candidate in person.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,203 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3430 |
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