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LARGE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 1921 NAVAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES
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HARDING, WARREN G. AND FLORENCE; AND DELEGATES. Scrapbook
on theWashington Naval Conference containing photograph portraits of all U.S. and some
other delegates, including 26 Photographs Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, each showing a
single official, most bust portraits by Harris & Ewing or Underwood & Underwood. Most
inscribed in the blank lower margin, many to U.S. Advisory Committee member Mrs.
Charles Sumner Bird. Many additionally signed by the photographer. Each approximately
10x8 inches (image), 13x9
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2
inches overall; mounted one to a page, on recto or verso of
album leaf. (TFC)
Np, 1922
[3,500/5,000]
United
States:WarrenG. Harding, as President * Florence Kling Harding, as First Lady * Charles
Evans Hughes * Elihu Root * Henry Cabot Lodge * Oscar W. Underwood * General John J.
Pershing.
Great Britain: Arthur James Balfour * Lord Lee of Fareham * Sir Auckland Geddes.
Canada: Sir Robert L. Borden.
Australia: G.F. Pearce.
New Zealand: JohnW. Salmond.
France:AristideBriand * ReneViviani * Albert Sarraut * J.J. Jusserand * Admiral De Bon.
Italy: Carlo Schanzer.
Japan:TomosaburoKato * Kijuro Shidehara * IyesatoTokugawa * Masanao Hanihara.
China: Sao-Ke Alfred Sze *Vi KyuinWellington Koo.
Netherlands: Jongheer H.A. van Karnebeek.
During late 1921 and early 1922, leaders of the principal world powers met inWashington to discuss
naval disarmament in an effort to minimize the possibility of another world war, resulting in the sign-
ing of several international agreements including theWashington Naval Treaty.