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Edmonston [Signed photograph of President Warren G. Harding and his cabinet]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04097 Author/Creator: Edmonston Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1921 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 27.8 x 35.3 cm. Order a Copy

Signed by President Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge. Also signed by his cabinet: Herbert Hoover, Charles E. Hughes, Andrew W. Mellon, John W. Weeks, Harry M. Daugherty, Will H. Hays, Edwin Denby, Albert B. Fall, Henry C. Wallace, and James J. Davis. Date inferred from the presence of Postmaster General Hays.

Edmonston was a photographer in Washington, D.C. active from 1916-1924.

Edmonston, fl. 1921
Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William), 1855-1937
Daugherty, Harry Micajah, 1860-1941
Denby, Edwin, 1870-1929
Wallace, Henry Cantwell, 1866-1924
Davis, James John, 1873-1947
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948
Weeks, John W. (John Wingate), 1860-1926
Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954
Fall, Albert B. (Albert Bacon), 1861-1944

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