Looking East

Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods, is made possible, in part, by the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This exhibition would not have been possible without the major support of the Louise Taft Semple Foundation. The Friends of the William Howard Taft Birthplace is the exhibition’s nonprofit collaborative sponsor. We would also like to thank the following foundations, funds, and organizations for generous assistance and support for the exhibition, the teacher’s manual, the museum catalogue, and the website:

  • Betty D. Anderson Family Fund
  • Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
  • Carl H. Lindner
  • David G. Taft Foundation
  • Donald and Margo Stever Fund
  • Frost Brown Todd, LLC
  • G. Schmidlapp Trust, Fifth Third Bank Trustee
  • Honda of America, Mfg., Inc.
  • Japanese Chamber of Commerce
  • Ohio Historical Society
  • Taft Museum of Art
  • Thendara Foundation
  • William P. Anderson Foundation
  • Yokkaichi America Corporation
We would like to thank the following for generous assistance:
Dorothy T. Ahlgren, Lynne Ambrosini, Paula Armbruster, Marnie Black, Allison Brown, John L. Campbell, Mary Cushing, Sally Dessner, Justin D. Flamm, John Forbes, Tim Goldsmith, Evelyn Hadad, Jeffrey Harrison, Ray Henderson, Jennifer Howe, Dylan Jhirad, Anna Reid Jhirad, Deborah Jones, Tsutomo Karino, Miki Kase, Benito Legarda, Daniel Leung, Jarett Levitsky, Phillp Long, Mary Alice Mairose, Angelina Mak, Gerald Mak, Sophia Mak, Olivia Motch, Leslie Ann Murray, David Musto, Jan O’Connor, Ruby Paredes, Deborah J. Peckham, Dorothy Reed, Foster Reed, Jane Reed, Janny Reed, Larry Reed, John Reusing, Rosalie Robertson, Scott Sans, Jackie Serwer, Katherine T. Sparrow, David W. Stever, Donald W. Stever, Bob Taft, David G. Taft, Hope Taft, Mary A. Taft, James Wachs, Natalie C. Walden, Joanna Waley-Cohen, David Whittaker, Harry Whittaker, Molly Whittaker, Polly Whittaker, Sally Whittaker, John T. Young-Taft.