William H. Taft, Republican Nominee Barber_Word_Print when the Republic had begun

when the Republic had begun the slow

that splendid wedge of Gilded Age commerce

and slow imperial drift

and Beacon Hill's gas lamps glow on linen stock pressed when the harbor still smelled of molasses and tea

A lithograph that reads less as gallery and more as argument — continuity offered as evidence against secession

William H. Taft, Republican Nominee Barber_Word_Print when the Republic had begunWilliam H. Taft, Republican Nominee a campaign portrait of the Ohio jurist turned standard bearer, issued as the GOP placed its considerable weight behind Roosevelt's hand picked successor. The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President, and eventually was. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional