Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Butt, Baden-Powell, Taft, Bryce

Butt, Baden-Powell, Taft, Bryce

Original - (l. to r.): unknown man, Military aide to President Taft Major Archibald Butt, founder of the scout movement Robert Baden-Powell, President William Taft, British ambassador James Bryce (1912)

Not for voting - unrestored original, for comparison

Reason

A grown man in shorts and the vast expanse of William Howard Taft: what's not to like? Baden-Powell's description of the event:

"Then I went to Washington — the capital of the United States — and was received by the President, Mr. Taft, who spoke very kindly about the Boy Scouts. He is a great, burly man, cheery and kind-hearted, and he believes in the Scouts as manly and chivalrous fellows who will make the best of citizens when they grow up. The Scouts of Washington — and they number about five hundred-paraded before the President and the British Ambassador in America. They gave demon­strations of various kinds, such as signalling, first-aid, and bandaging, but those which attracted most attention were the wireless telegraph and fire-lighting."

The caption in the Library of Congress catalog reads "BADEN-POWELL, SIR ROBERT, [WILLIAM H. TAFT], BUTT, ARCHIBALD WILLINGHAM FOUNDER OF BOY SCOUTS [WITH TAFT]". Reading Boy Scouts Beyond the Seas. My World Tour (Sir Robert Baden-Powell, London, 1913) and comparing photos of the people mentioned leads me to identify the people in the photo as (l. to r.): unknown man, Archibald Butt (who died on the Titanic a month or two later!), Robert Baden-Powell, William Taft, James Bryce.

Also, the date is listed as 1911 at LoC. Based on the work mentioned and the article in the New York Times I believe the date to be 3 February 1912.

Articles this image appears in

Archibald Butt, Robert Baden-Powell, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

Creator

Harris & Ewing, photographers. Restored by Michel Vuijlsteke.

• Support as nominator -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 23:10, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• Conditional Support: Very nearly there, but there's some streaks of white in the lower left. Remove those, and you have an obvious featured picture. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 07:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Done! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Good enough for me! =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:05, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

• Support GerardM (talk) 11:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support per nom. and Shoemaker's Holiday. Mostlyharmless (talk) 01:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Butt, Baden-Powell, Taft, Bryce2.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 00:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)