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LARGE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 1921 NAVAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES
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HARDING, WARREN G. AND FLORENCE. Scrapbook on the Washington
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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inches overall; mounted one to a page, on recto or verso of album leaf.
(TFC)
Np, 1922
[1,500/2,500]
United States:Warren G. 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: Aristide Briand * Rene Viviani * Albert Sarraut * J.J. Jusserand * Admiral De Bon.
Italy: Carlo Schanzer.
Japan:Tomosaburo Kato * 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.