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Taft breaking ground for Indian Statue. R. Wanamaker (LOC)

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W.H. Taft (LOC)

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  • Infrogmation of New Orleans said:
    U.S. President William Howard Taft seated at back right of his automobile. He bought this automobile between his election and his innauguration to use as his official car; it was a 1909 White Motor Company Model M 40 horse-power steam 7 passenger touring car. I've read that the car is preserved at the Heritage Plantation Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The chauffer is presumbably Taft's driver George Robinson. Another Bain photo of the automobile, without Taft
  • Eric Fidler said:
    That building in the background is the same building pictured in the G.V.L. Meyer photo.
  • technogeo said:
    This automobile is a Pierce-Arrow, not a White steamer. They have very different shaped hoods and radiators, and the name "Pierce-Arrow is visible on the rear hub cap of this one.
  • Infrogmation of New Orleans said:
    Technogeo: Yes, you're quite right. Since my earlier comment, I discovered that Taft ordered 2 Whites AND 2 Pierce-Arrows before taking office. hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.03212 shows one of the White steamers; this is one of the Pierce-Arrows. I think the other Pierce-Arrow is shown at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.03213 .
  • Dean Z said:
    To continue the conversation about the make of the vehicle. The White House Historical Association (whitehousehistory.org) has an image of this vehicle, it is described as a "White House Pierce Arrow 66 A. P. Touring Car" Source: Motor Cars Come to the White House: Taft Administration. White House Historical Association (www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/motor-cars-come-to-th...) Picture 5 of 6.

Taft and Notification Comm. at Wh. House (LOC)

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  • Wystan said:
    The photo was taken at the White House in Washington, D. C., in June, 1912, when Taft was the incumbent President. This was his second experience of the notification ritual. The committee had traveled from the Republican National Convention in Chicago, where Taft had been nominated for a second term. In the era before a candidate attended the convention in person, this was his ceremonial acceptance of the nomination. But of course, Taft went down to defeat in November. Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was victorious, and Theodore Roosevelt, leader of the Bull Moose Party, came in second. In the Bain Company files at LOC is a photo of Taft's 1908 notification, in Cincinnati (his home town) -- but LOC has not yet posted that photo on Flickr.