MOUNT VERNON. TOMB OF WASHINGTON
Summary
A group of people standing in front of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Photo shows a big group of Belgian and Russian war mission members, US military officers, two cabinet members, and several members of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association outside Washington's tomb. Everyone seems to be looking at Baron Moncheur so he may be the one speaking.
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection for similar negative LC-H261-793.
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
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 two.
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.)
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