Scrapbook of the presidential campaign of 1912

Scrapbook of the presidential campaign of 1912

[S.l. 1912]

1 v. : ill., ports. ; 35 cm.

MISC L2012G95 MB [Box]

Scrapbook kept by Isabel Anderson, containing programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, invitations, original ms. & typescript documents, and other materials relating to the 1912 presidential campaign of William Howard Taft and the bitter Republican convention held in Chicago in June of that year in which Theodore Roosevelt challenged the incumbent president and divided the party. Isabel Anderson, a great Taft supporter, attended the convention while her husband was still in Brussels serving as American minister to Belgium (see also "Larz Anderson journals" for 1912 (call no.: MSS L2004G19 M [Bound], mentioning Isabel's attending the Republican Convention in Chicago)
Includes documents created by the Republican women’s group to which Isabel Anderson belonged (women could not yet vote in the United States) including appeals to African-Americans to vote for Taft.
In box.
See also "Let the people rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the presidential primary" by Geoffrey Cowan (call no.: 324.973 C874 2016 MB)
Gift of the family of Alice Churchill Meeks.

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