Name/Title
McKinley at the Head of the Council TableEntry/Object ID
95.01.446dTags
1900sDescription
Stereoscopic view of President McKinley at the Head of the Council Table, Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
The caption under the photo on the right reads"(2)-4861-President McKinley at the Head of the Council Table, Cabinet Room, White House, Washington. Copyright 1900 by Strohmeyer & Wyman." Text on the left of the images reads "Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa-Kansas." Text to the right of the images reads: "Work and Studios--Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J., Washington, D.C."
Text on the back reads as follows:
"This is the room where one of the greatest statesmen of the nineteenth century deliberated with the members of his cabinet.
William McKinley was born in Ohio in 1843. He enlisted as a private in the Union Army and served until the close of the Civil War, when he was mustered out as a major. He worked his way thhrough college and law school and was admitted to the bar in 1867. In 1876 he was a Republican Representative of Ohio in Congress and he served seven terms. It was in 1890, when he was Chairman of the Ways and MEans Committee that he gave the nation the now world-famous McKinley Bill. In 1890 he became Governor of Ohio. In 1896 he was elected President of the United States. the passing of thee Dingley tariff law and the complicated problems of the war with Spain made his firsst term one of the great memorable periods of American history. It was only six months after he began his second term (1901) that he was assassinated at Buffalo.
Secretary John Hay, in a eulogy delivered before Congress, declared of the enormous responsibilities borne on this man's shoulders, "the verdict of history will be that he met all these grave questions with perfect valor and incomparable ability, that is grappling with them, he rose to the full height of a great occasion, in a manner which redoubled to the lasting benefit of the country and to his own immortal honor. there is no one but must feel his devotion to his country renewed and kindled when he remembers how McKinley lived, preserved, and served it, showed in his life how a citizen should live, and, in his last hour, taught us how a gentleman should die.' From 'Notes of Travel,' No. 15, copyright 1905 03, Underwood & Underwood.
President McKinley at the head of the Council Table, Washington, U.S.A." (This last sentence in repeated in five other languages beneath it.)Collection
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95.01.446Source or Donor
Stone, GladysAcquisition Method
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