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Students gather to meet President Taft

May 2, 1910

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Students gather to meet President Taft
  • Title
  • Students gather to meet President Taft
  • Date
  • May 2, 1910
  • Identifier
  • PCW000117
  • Description
  • On Monday, May 2, 1910 President William Howard Taft visited his sister-in-law, Mrs. Thomas McKennan Laughlin on Woodland Road and addressed PCW students from the terrace of her home (now Mellon Center on the Chatham University campus). Shown here are students waiting to hear the president speak. As printed in the college magazine, The Sorosis, Taft joked with the students, "You are indebted to me for this opportunity to come out here this morning and get away from your studies. I trust that if I make no other impression upon you, for this reason if for no other, I will win your gratitude."
  • Place of Publication
  • Laughlin Home, now Mellon Center
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Women college students--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Pennsylvania College for Women
    Shadyside (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Laughlin Home, now Mellon Center
  • Source
  • Chatham University Chronological Photograph Files
  • Contributor
  • Chatham University
  • Collection
  • Chatham University Chronological Photograph Files
  • Rights Information
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