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The great day at Versailles when France effaced the memory of 1871 / exclusive photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland and Lucian Swift Kirtland, Leslie's Staff Correspondents.

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The great day at Versailles when France effaced the memory of 1871 / exclusive photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland and Lucian Swift Kirtland, Leslie's Staff Correspondents.

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Eight images taken on June 28, 1919 the day of the signing of the peace treaty ending World War I, at Versailles, France. Images show flags at the Place Vendome; crowds at the fountain, in the gardens and on the terrace outside of the Hall of Mirrors; French cavalry guarding the road leading to the palace, the French Republican Guard, and two of twelve "poilus" (French soldiers) invited to the ceremony.
Photomechanical reproductions of photographs.
Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City : Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [219-220].

Inscribed in pencil beneath image: H.J.K.
Another copy filed under: D527.F65 1920.
Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1981:339, container 14.

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01/01/1919
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Kirtland, Helen Johns, photographer
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Versailles (France)48.80000, 2.13333
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Library of Congress
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