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Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Flora Gardiner Kling collection

 Collection
Identifier: L344
Scope and Contents The collection includes letters to Flora Gardner Kling, principally from the period 1900 to 1935, from writers, poets, illustrators, and musicians responding to her letters about their work, and to her requests for examples of their bookplates; correspondence regarding her collection of bookplates, particularly with other bookplate collectors; and her bookplate collection.Correspondents include:Louis Adamic, George Ade, Ambrose Bierce, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Richard...
Dates: 1886-1938

"President Taft's Party and the Reception Committee" panoramic photograph

 Collection — Object: OBF008
Identifier: OBF008
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a black-and-white panoramic photograph taken by N. H. Losey at the house of Charles W. Fairbanks in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 4, 1911, depicting the members of President William Howard Taft's party and the local reception committee during his visit to the city. Most of the people in the photograph are male and wearling badges. Indiana Governor Thomas Riley Marshall, Charles W. Fairbanks, and Cornelia Cole Fairbanks sit to the left of the president at the front of...
Dates: 1911/07/04

Will H. Hays collection

 Collection
Identifier: L560
Scope and Contents The collection includes Will H. Hays' correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, notebooks and photographs, principally from the period of 1914-1954. His political papers include correspondence and other papers regarding his work as Indiana and National Republican Party Chairman; his work with the State Council of Defense during World War I; his efforts to unite the liberal and conservative wings of the Republican Party for the 1920 election, including his correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt on...
Dates: 1857-1957