Luncheon for Liberian president's party
His Excellency, Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, was feted by Negro civic, social, professional and educational leaders Saturday, May 29, 1943 at a luncheon at the Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall in Washington, D.C. Shown at the president's table (seated, left to right) are: Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, U.S. Army military aide to President Barclay; W.V.S. Tubman, President-elect of Liberia; President Barclay; Dr. Emmet J. Scott, Chairman of the Committee on Invitation; and Captain Alford Russ, chief of the Liberian frontier force. Standing (left to right) are Stanley Woodward, Frederick Hibbard and Henry S. Villard, State Department; and Walter F. Walker, Liberian Consul General at New York
- Date
- 1943-05-29
- Photographer / author
- Smith, Roger, photographer.
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 510 × 384 pixels
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