[125th Street and Lexington Avenue: IRT East Side Line]
Photograph of southeast corner 125th Street and Lexington Avenue prior to IRT East Side Line construction. Trolleys, trolley tracks, and New York Central Lines passenger station can also be seen in the photograph. The camera is looking west.
New York Transit MuseumElection in East Harlem, October 28, 1912.
Political banners promoting Republican candidates line the streets at Lexington Avenue and East 125th Street, a little over a week before Election Day. In the Presidential race, Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, defeated the incumbent Republican William Howard Taft; Theodore Roosevelt, running as a candidate of the Progressive Party, having failed to secure toe G.O.P. nomination; and Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs.
In the background, the elevated 125th Street station of the New York Central Railway is visible.
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