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Men at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
Arlington National Cemetery. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, straight-on
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Foreign veterans honor unknown dead. One of the first acts of the delegates of the Federation Interallies des Ancians Combattants ... upon their arrival in Washington for their eleventh annual convention was to make a pilgrmage to Arlington National Cemetary to pay tribute to the Unknown dead of the World War. This photograph shows Lieut. Col. Fred Abbott of England, president of Fidae, placing a medal on the Unknown Soldier's Tomb, after first laying a wreath there
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A group of men standing in front of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch seven.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)