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Title: Exhibition of war portraits : signing of the Peace treaty, 1919, and portraits of distinguished leaders of America and of the allied nations painted by eminent American artists for presentation to the National portrait gallery
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: National Art Committee Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Levy, Florence Nightingale, 1870-
Subjects: Portraits World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : National Art Committee
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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politics i8q7-iqio, presidentAugust I, iqo2-October 20, iqio, Princeton Uni-versity; Governor of New Jersey iqii-iqi3 (resigned);elected President November 4, iqi2, for term Marchiqi3-iqi7; re-elected iqi7-iq2i. Left for FranceDecember 4, iqi8, at the head of the AmericanCommission to Negotiate Peace returned to theUnited States, arriving in Boston February 24, iqiq;left New York on second trip to Europe, March 5,and arrived in Paris March 14; signed Peace Treaty,June 28, iqiq; returned to the United States arri\ingin New York July 8, iqiq. Received the NobelPeace Prize December 10, iq2o. Author: Con-gressional Government, a Study in American Poli-tics, 1885; The State—Elements of Historical andPractical Politics, i88q; Mere Literature and OtherEssays, i8q3; George Washington, i8q6; AHistory of the American People, iqo2; Constitu-tional Government in the United States, iqo8; TheNew Freedom, iqi3; When a Man Comes to Him-self, iqiy, On Being Human, iqib; also manypublished addresses.
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GENERAL PERSHING I Photographed before completion) By Douglas Volk. N.A.Presented by the City of Cincinnati General JOHN JOSEPH PERSHING, Com-mander-in-Chief of the American ExpeditionaryForces in Europe, iqiy-iqiq. Born in Linne County, Missouri, i860. B.A.Kirksville (Mo.), Normal School, 1880; graduate U. S.Military Academy 1886. Second lieutenant bth U. S.Cavalry, 1886;. Served in Apache Indian Campaign,New Mexico and Arizona, 1886, and in Sioux Cam-paign, Dakota, i8qo-i8qi; military instructor Uni-versity of Nebraska, i8qi-i8q5; instructor in tactics,U.S. Military Academy, i8q7-i8q8; served with lothCavalry in Santiago campaign, Cuba, i8q8; organ-ized the Bureau of Insular Affairs and was its chiefuntil August i8qq; served in Philippine Islands i8qq-iqo3; commanded military operations in CentralMindanao against Moros, iqo2-iqo3; military attacheTokio, Japan, iqo5-iqob, and was with Kurokisarmy in Manchuria, served on General Staff, iqo3-iqob; Commander Department Mindanao and gove

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