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Geo. R. Lawrence Co. [Photograph of Union League Club meeting]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04471.15 Author/Creator: Geo. R. Lawrence Co. Place Written: New York, New York Type: Photograph Date: circa 1914 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 26.8 x 36.0 cm. Order a Copy

One sepia-toned photograph of 18 members of the Union League Club sitting around a conference table. At the end of the long table, the man sitting center may be George B. Agnew, the vice-chairman of the Club's Political Reform Committee. To his right may be Chauncy M. Depew, president of the New York Central Railroad and former U.S. Senator of New York. Date inferred from another photograph of a Union League Club meeting in the same collection (see GLC04471.14). The photograph is mounted on a backer board.

Geo. R. Lawrence Co.

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