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U.S.S. Nahant, ship's company, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit Publishing Company.

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New Jersey Senator and bride leave for honeymoon. Washington, D.C., Feb. 9. Senator William B. Smathers of New Jersey, with his bride the former Mary James Foley whom he married this morning in Fairfax, Virginia, arriving at Washington Airport to board a plane for Miami where the couple will spend their honeymoon. Left to right: Mrs. William Abbott Coleman of Arlington, Virginia, aunt of the bride and groom, and Benjamin F. Smathers, young son of the Senator who acted as best man for his father, 22938

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National Woman's Party to receive in honor of Rep. Ruth Bryan Owen. Rep. Ruth Bryan Owen, in whose honor the National Woman's Party is giving a reception at its headquarters April 11th, and Miss Mabol Van Dyke (right) chairman of the newly organized Young Woman's Council of the Woman's Party

Pershing Guest of Honor of Baltic Club. Washington, D.C., June 1. General John J. Pershing was Guest of Honor tonight at the annual dinner of the Baltic Club, which is comprised of members of the A.E.F. who served overseas with the famous General during the World War. Left to right : Maj. General James G. Harbord, Toastmaster, who was Pershing's Chief of Staff in France; General Pershing; and Maj. General Merritte Ireland, who was Asst. Surgeon General was responsible for the health of the troops in France during the World War

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Bridal eve schottische - American song, public domain sheet music

New Maritime Commission acts for first time, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29. The newly created Maritime Commission meeting for the first time today sent telegrams to West Coast shippers and union officials asking that working contract, which expire today, be extended for 60 days in an effort to prevent a maritime tieup. In the photograph, left to right: George Landick, Jr., Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U.S.N., retired named temporarily to the commission in place of Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, who will not take office until after Oct. 1

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A black and white photo of a man and a woman on a boat.

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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.

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1923
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Belgian refugees fleeing from Ostend

A black and white photo of a man picking apples. Office of War Information Photograph

Joseph Millard House, 1007 North Main Street, Sainte Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, MO

Habre de Venture, Rose Hill Road, La Plata, Charles County, MD

Brown, Joseph E. - Folder 1 of 2

Lardy dah quickstep - Public domain American sheet music, 1883

Commission sent by Secy. of Labor Davis to the Hawaiian Islands to investigate labor problems and to report on advisability of allowing Chinese Labor to enter the Islands as requested by Hawaiian govt. First row, left to right: L.E. Sheppard, Secy. Davis, O.R. Hartwig, and Hywel Davies. Standing: John Doulin and Fred Keightly

Gayety at Bal Boheme Washington, D.C., April 10. Favors were distributed to Guests through the medium of false Champagne bottles hung from the ceilings. Guests who failed to get favors when the bottles were poured, decided to get the bottles themselves. This one succeeded. The rest were quickly pulled back up out of harm's way, 4-10-39

Louis Stoddard and wife - Public domain portrait photograph

MILLARD, E.L. - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

Brown, Joseph E. - Folder 2 of 2

Venture a terre (at full speed)

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district of columbia washington dc glass negatives daughter ambassador davies ambassador davies fiance guests fiance guests party gay emlen knight gay emlen knight davies joseph joseph e robert grosjean robert grosjean london office london office general foods general foods honor yacht venture venture ii breckinridge bayne breckinridge bayne hostess original plans original plans marriage ceremony place event european war european war date estate senator millard tydings millard tydings maryland couple home diplomacy politics and government england female portrait woman united states history 1920 s couple 1920 s library of congress belgian