Beginning in 1915, Arthur Samuel Mole and John D. Thomas produced \"living photographs\" by supervising the arrangement of tens of thousands of military personnel into national symbols, including the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, and the Liberty Bell. In this example, twenty-one thousand soldiers were meticulously ordered to form the profile of the sitting president, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson’s legacy has been an important topic of recent campus discourse, given the troubling positions he took on race as the president of Princeton University (1902–10) and in elected office. While meant as an expression of national pride, Mole & Thomas’s photograph unintentionally presents an opportunity to consider the multitudes whose experiences make up Wilson’s ambivalent legacy.
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