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[Members of World Disarmament Conference, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[Members of World Disarmament Conference, Washington, D.C.], 1921 — historic photograph
[Members of World Disarmament Conference, Washington, D.C.], 1921. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Aristide Briand, the French statesman noted on the caption card, is the figure this group is tied to, and it places the photograph in Washington in late 1921. The city was hosting the Washington Naval Conference, convened by the Harding administration to limit the costly building of battleships among the major naval powers. The National Photo Company, a Washington agency that documented official life in the capital, made many portraits of visiting dignitaries. The posed group reflects the formal, in-person diplomacy of the period, when naval treaties were negotiated face to face.

Created / published1921
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: International Conferences. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). French Coll. envelope - Disarmament Conference, Misc. Caption card tracings: Congresses & Conventions - 1921; Arms Control; Geogr. Ph. Ind. Briand, Aristide, 1862-1932.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147854

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