Hands across history

Hands across history
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Title: Hands across history
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Caption: "Hands across history--Following the unveiling in Lafayette High School [located at 2630 Benson Avenue] today of a portrait of General Lafayette, Georges Clemenceau, grandson of the French Premier, shakes hands before the painting with Dr. Frederick William Oswald, principal of the school."

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert De Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 -- Portraits.
Lafayette High School (New York, N.Y.)
Shaking hands
Portraits
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: SCHL 1006