1896 Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, A.B. Frost Bicycle Print, Campaign — Oct 24

🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 24, 1896
Complete Issue · New York

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A historically exceptional issue — a photograph of Woodrow Wilson as Princeton professor eighteen years before his presidency, two full pages of Princeton's 150th anniversary celebration, an A.B. Frost bicycle print, a Southern campaign barbecue, and Republican headquarters conference. The Wilson photograph alone makes this a primary presidential history document.

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🎓 WOODROW WILSON AT PRINCETON — FUTURE PRESIDENT
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📸 PHOTOGRAPH — "WOODROW WILSON, PROF. OF JURISPRUDENCE" — PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
A photograph of Woodrow Wilson — published eighteen years before his election as the 28th President of the United States in 1912 — as Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Princeton University. Wilson had joined Princeton's faculty in 1890, become its most popular lecturer, and was in 1896 at the height of his academic celebrity, having just published his celebrated study "George Washington" and being widely regarded as one of the finest political scientists in America. This Harper's Weekly photograph — published at Princeton's 150th anniversary celebration — is a primary document of Wilson's pre-presidential career, capturing the future president at the moment he was building the academic reputation that would carry him to the Princeton presidency (1902), the New Jersey governorship (1910), and the White House (1912). A significant piece of presidential history — a rare early published photograph of a future American president before his political career began.

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🎓 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — 150TH ANNIVERSARY
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🏛️ TWO FULL PAGES — "SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — THE CAMPUS AND NASSAU HALL"
Two full pages documenting Princeton University's 150th anniversary celebration — including views of the campus and historic Nassau Hall, the oldest building at Princeton (1756) and one of the most significant buildings in American history, having served as the temporary capital of the United States in 1783 when the Continental Congress met there. A significant piece of Princeton history and American educational and Revolutionary War heritage.

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🎨 A.B. FROST — "THE RIGHT OF WAY"
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🚲 A.B. FROST PRINT — "THE RIGHT OF WAY" — BICYCLISTS AND A HORSE-DRAWN CART
A print by A.B. Frost depicting the comic conflict between bicyclists and a horse-drawn cart over the right of way — a vivid piece of the 1890s bicycle craze at its most contentious, when the new bicycle culture was transforming American roads and social habits and creating daily conflicts with traditional horse-drawn traffic. Frost — the most celebrated American sporting and social illustrator of the Gilded Age — brings his characteristic warmth and humor to one of the defining comic situations of the era. A vivid, humorous, and very frameable piece of Victorian American social history and the bicycle craze.

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🏛️ FULL PAGE — "A CONFERENCE AT THE REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO"
A full-page illustration of a conference at Republican campaign headquarters in Chicago — a vivid piece of 1896 presidential campaign political history.

🍖 FULL PAGE — "A TYPICAL CAMPAIGN BARBECUE IN THE SOUTH AND MIDDLE WEST"
A full-page illustration of a campaign barbecue — one of the great traditions of American democratic politics, where candidates and voters gathered around the barbecue pit for food, speeches, and political persuasion. A warm and vivid piece of American political and social history.

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Publication ········ Harper's Weekly
Date ··············· October 24, 1896
City ··············· New York
Format ············· Complete issue

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