President McKinley’s Second Inauguration On March 4, 1901, a crowd stands in front of — and on — the U.S. Capitol during President William McKinley’s second inauguration. His second term came to a tragic end in September 1901 when he as shot by an anarchist while standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition.
Photo: Library of Congress
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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