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Portraits, the Grand Match, and the Clubhouse Wall · The American Game
President Taft on the Links, 1913
Bain News Service, photograph, September 1913 · press photograph
What it is
A Bain News Service glass negative captioned Taft, Brookline: the former president among the gallery behind the rope.
Why it matters
Taft was the first American president known for his golf, and he kept going to matches after he left office in March 1913.
What to notice
The rope runs across the foreground at knee height, and everyone, the former president included, stays behind it.
On the course, everyone stands where the marshal says.
Provenance
- Maker
- Bain News Service, photograph, September 1913
- Era
- The Haskell — the Rubber Core (1898–1930)
- Chapter
- The Golden Age
- Medium
- press photograph
- Made
- 1913
- Figure
- William Howard Taft
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs (LCCN 2014694123) · LCCN 2014694123
Publicity
Clear — a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
