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Congressmen visit Wilson (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos of the Democratic U. S. Congressmen visiting New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson, at the New Jersey resort town of Sea Girt, at the time of Wilson's nomination as the Democratic candidate for President in the election of 1912:
  • Wystan said:

Congressmen visit Wilson (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Nathan Adams said:
    Would this be the notification committee we've seen in other pics?
  • Jason A G said:
    They certainly look happy. Was this in 1912? With the GOP in disarray that year, I'd guess they smell blood in the water, after 44 of the last 52 years having a Republican President.
  • Noël Zia Lee said:
    Many of them seem to have the same hat. Are those Panama hats? I wonder if this meeting had something to do with the Panama canal.
  • Jason A G said:
    They look like "boater" hats, popularly worn in the summers of that era: www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/hats.php?from=leftnav Top hats were out, and fedora's would not come in for another 15 years or so. The Panama Canal had already been built and fully operational this point, during the Roosevelt administration.
  • andrechinn said:
    I'm surprised that they're sitting on the grass-- you'd never see that kind of thing these days.

Olympic Parade (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    The street name on the lamp-post at left is "5th Ave." The plaque at the corner reads "Garfield National Bank and Garfield Safe Deposit Company." This may be the corner of Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street. See NYT August 3, 1909, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E0DC123EE733A... GARFIELD BANK'S NEW HOME.; Magnificent Quarters in Fifth Avenue Building Opened Yesterday. "The Garfield National Bank, which had long stood on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Sixth Avenue, threw open to business yesterday its new quarters on Twenty-third Street and Fifth Avenue in the new Fifth Avenue Building. On the ground floor, with the bank, are the main offices of the Garfield Safe Deposit Company, ..."
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