Drucker & Co., fl. 1914; Committee on Political Reform. The Union League Club. N.Y. Jan. 7, 1914.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04471.14 Author/Creator: Drucker & Co., fl. 1914; Place Written: New York, New York Type: Photograph Date: 7 January 1914 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 28.0 x 44.5 cm. Order a Copy
One black-and-white photograph entitled, "Committee on Political Reform," dated January 7, 1914." Image is of ten men in tuxedos around a dinner table at the Union League Club. Fourth from the left sits Samuel W. Fairchild, then President of the Union League Club. Fifth from left, at Fairchild's side, is Reuben Leslie Maynard, the committee chairman. The rest of the men cannot be identified with certainty. The photograph has suffered some discoloration. The image is mounted on a backer board.
The Committee on Political Reform was a group within the Union League Club, a gentlemen's club in New York City with which President Theodore Roosevelt was closely associated. The club's fourteen members in 1914 were mostly Republican politicians from the city.
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