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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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food committee, Council of National De-fense, April to August iqi/; appointed United StatesFood Administrator by President Wilson, August 10,iqi7, resigned June, iqiq; at present (iqio) chairmanEuropean Relief Council. LL.D., Brown Unixersity,University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Princeton,Yale, Oberlin, University of Alabama, Liege, Brus-sels; D.C.L., Oxford. Commander Legion of Honor;Audiffret prize, French Academy, iqi8; HonoraryCitizen and Friend cf the Belgian Nation; citizenof Finland; burger of Antwerp, and other Belgiancities; medalist Mining and Metallurgical Society ofAmerica, National Institute Social Sciences, Societyof Western Engineers; Trustee Stanford University;Fellow Royal Geographical Society; Honorary mem-ber American Institute Mining and MetallurgicalEngineers; member Societee Ingenieurs Civils deFrance, Societee Beige des Ingenieurs et des Indus-tries; American Association for the Advancement ofScience; Hakluyt Society, etc. Author of books andarticles on mining.
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HIS MAJESTY ALBERT I By Douglas Volk, N.A.Presented by the City of Cincinnati His Majesty ALBERT I (Leopold-Clement-Marie-Meinrad), King of the Belgians and Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian armies. Born in Brussels, 1875. Son of Prince Philip,Count of Flanders, and of Marie, Princess of Belgium.Educated as a civil engineer; visited the United Statesin i8q8 and studied railroading under James J. Hill.Succeeded his uncle. King Leopold II, on December17, and took oath December 23, iqcq. When theGermans entered Belgium. August 4, iqi4, KingAlbert refused to permit them to pass through hiscountry to France and thus to violate Belgiumsneutrality. After the armistice the formal return toAntwerp was made on November iq. iqi8, and toBrussels a few days later. Visited the United StatesOctober, iqiq. To be PaintcJ HER MAJESTY ELIZABETH By jean McLane Her Majesty ELIZABETH, Queen of the Belgians. Born at the Castle of Possenhoven in Bavaria,1S76. Married Albert, Duke of Saxony, at Vlunich,Octobe

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