White Steam Car 1909
by Jack Pumphrey
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Title
White Steam Car 1909
Artist
Jack Pumphrey
Medium
Drawing - Colored Pencils And Ink
Description
First Presidential car, artwork of steam powered cars, first White House cars, cars of the Presidents, canvas prints of presidential cars, In January of 1909, legislation on behalf of president-elect William Howard Taft for the official White House automobiles, after some discussion the Congress authorized $12,000 for the purchase of a 40-horsepower White steam touring car and a 48-horsepower six-cylinder Pierce-Arrow limousine, he took the first official ride by a President in a White House automobile that in the Pierce-Arrow limousine to and from the inaugural ball, Taft's enthusiasm for the technology, especially in contrast to Roosevelt's known distaste for it, changed the political culture of automobile and brought about a national craze for the machines.
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