Charlie Taft, on horse – 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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Step back in time with Charlie Taft, on horse, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Charlie Taft, on horse
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The caption names Charlie Taft, most likely Charles Phelps Taft II, the Cincinnati newspaper owner and politician who was a half-brother of William Howard Taft, shown here mounted on horseback. The picture is dated to early April 1909, about a month after his brother's inauguration as president, when the Taft family was much in the news. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, whose Bain News Service produced large numbers of glass negatives for newspapers of the period. The identification rests on caption data the service recorded and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 4/7/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 946 × 712 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4859 |
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