Description: This large format photograph had great historical signficance. In September 1919 President Woodrow Wilson undertook a railroad barnstorming trip across the Western United States to promote US membership of the League of Nations, his key post WWI foreign policy platform to ensure no repeat of the very costly Great War. Struggling with ill health and applying his academic and intellectual approach which lacked political acuity, his trip was only partly successful. On September 10th he arrived in Bismark, ND, from Minneapolis on the North Pacific Railroad via Fargo, a journey of 427 miles. A President had never been seen here and there was great curiosity. He spoke at the Belle Mehus Auditorium which still stands on North 6th Street. Two weeks later his health failed and the rest of the tour was cancelled and on October 2 he suffered a stroke which broke his health permanently. This photograph shows a group of Native Americans who came to Bismark to hear the President speak. There are five federally recognized tribes in the ND and the closest to Bismark is the home of the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux tribe. The aduilt males are in their Sunday best western dress. The women and children are dressed more normally with headcoverings for the women. The surrounding crowd, as far as can be seen, are not Native American. The blanket worn by the woman on the right has a traditional Lakota Sioux pattern of a line crossed by a number of shorter lines or rectangles. One of the children holds a flag staff with the American Stars and Stripes. The photograph is 10" by 8", very sharp and not faded. There is a signficant area of damage in the bottom left corner about 4" x 1" but it does not impact the subjects of the shot. Possibly the only surviving record of this day availabel to collectors. Free Shipping in the USA. Features Details Item Weight: 0.13 pounds Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds {{marketing_message_heading_1}} {{marketing_message_body_1}} {{marketing_message_heading_2}} {{marketing_message_body_2}} {{marketing_message_heading_3}} {{marketing_message_body_3}}
Price: 350 USD
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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