(TAFT WILLIAM HOWARD) 2 photograph albums from Tafts term as

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(TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD.) 2 photograph albums from Taft's term as Civil Governor of the Philippines. More than 100 silver print photographs, various sizes, mounted in 7 x 10.5 inches album titled Photographs or loose. Moderate wear to album, most photographs clear but some with uneven fading * 22 silver print photographs, each 4.5 x 6.5 inches, each mounted on card stock, in 7 x 10-inch protective binder embossed with the title Last Day in Manila. Disbound, minor wear to binder, photographs generally excellent condition with occasional spotting or soiling. Manila?, 1902-1903

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From 1901 to 1903, not long before he was elected president of the United States, William Howard Taft served as the first governor of America's new territory, the Philippines. The first of these volumes is a scrapbook of candid snapshots from 1902. Some or all were taken by John Barrett, an American journalist who had covered the Philippines in 1898 and had returned to secure their participation in the St. Louis World's Fair. Most of these images are not captioned, but several clearly depict Taft and his family, while others are Filipino street scenes, and another depicts a ceremonial arch dedicated to "Gobernador Wm. H. Taft."
The second album is titled "Last Day in Manila," and was compiled by amateur photographer Thomas S. Pugh, a clerk with the U.S. Pay Department, who had it bound in an embossed Kodak presentation binder. These quality images depict a 24 December 1903 parade in Taft's honor as he prepared to depart for his new posting as U.S. Secretary of War.