| Title: | Hands across history | 
| Description: | 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.) [2] | 
		
| More Details: | 
				Retouched. Title from caption on verso.  | 
		
| Collection: | Schools [3]						
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| Subject: | 
			
				Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert De Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 -- Portraits. [4] Lafayette High School (New York, N.Y.) [5] Shaking hands [6] Portraits [7]  | 
		
| 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 | 
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/67dba413fe253916cae842d4a3d39f37&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Schools
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert De Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 -- Portraits.
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lafayette High School (New York, N.Y.)
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Shaking hands
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Portraits