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French and British Missions visit Mount Vernon, April 29, 1917

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Year:
1917
Genre:
photographs
Subject:
Military uniforms
Local ID:
Eu-P 1917 mf-1
Extent:
1 photograph; 30.3 x 37.8 cm.

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Abstract:
Sepia photograph of high ranking military personnel and civilian men and women, first row seated, others standing in several rows behind, in front of a large white house with tall narrow columns.
Notes:
Photograph of the French and British Missions visiting Mount Vernon. In the front row from left to right , are Admiral Chocheprat of the French navy; Mrs. Euguene Van Rensselaer, vice-regent for West Virginia of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association; Secretary Josephus Daniels; Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys, regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association; Marshal Joffre; M. Viviani, head of the French commission; Secretary Lansing; the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, head of the British commission; the Hon. George E. Foster of the Canadian Cabinet; Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador to the United States, and Lieut-Gen. G. T. M. Bridges of the British commission--Behind M. Viviani is M. Hovelacque, Inspector-General of Public Instruction in France, and behind Sec. Lansing is the Marquis de Chambrun, a descendant of Lafayette.

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

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"French and British Missions visit Mount Vernon, April 29, 1917" (1917). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:241935/

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