General Lafayette again arrives in America. The Marquis de La Fayette, impersonated by John McGrath, kisses the hands of the flower children who greeted him as in colonial days when he arrived in Annapolis, Md., on his way to join Washington's forces at Yorktown. The scene was portrayed in Annapolis, Md., today to commemorate the Annapolis Convention of 1786 which was called to consider trade relations. President and Mrs. Coolidge witnessed the celebration

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General Lafayette again arrives in America. The Marquis de La Fayette, impersonated by John McGrath, kisses the hands of the flower children who greeted him as in colonial days when he arrived in Annapolis, Md., on his way to join Washington's forces at Yorktown. The scene was portrayed in Annapolis, Md., today to commemorate the Annapolis Convention of 1786 which was called to consider trade relations. President and Mrs. Coolidge witnessed the celebration

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A black and white photo of a group of people, 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.)

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01/01/1928
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united states
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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