Peace - November 11, 1918

Celebrating Peace on Gay Street in Knoxville Gay Street at the hour of signing the armistice, November 11, 1918.  Notice the hands on Hope Bros. clock.  The celebration began long before day and lasted far into the night.

American Peace Delegates Left to right are Col. E. M. House, Robert Lansing, President Wilson, Henry White, and General Tasker H. Bliss.  The photograph was taken at the Hotel Crillon in Paris.

The "Big Four" and Marshall Foch In the group from left to right are President Wilson, M. Clemenceau, Premier Lloyd-George, Premier Orlando, and Marshal Foch.

Commission on League of Nations at Paris The members, from left to right sitting, are:  Viscount Chinda (Japan), Baron Makino (Japan), M. Bourgrois (France), Lord Robert Cecil (Great Britain), Signor Orlando (Italy), M. Kramars (Czecho-Slovak), M. Venizelos (Greece).  Standing:  M. Pessoa (Brazil), M. Yoshida (Secretary to Japanese Minister Foreign Affairs), Colonel House (U. S. A.), The Secretary of the Brazilian Legation, M. Dmoski (Poland), M. Vesnitch (Serbia), The Secretary to the Belgian Legation, General Smuts (Great Britain), President Wilson, M. Diamandi (Roumania), M. Hymans (Belgium), Major Vonsell (U. S. A.), M. Wellington Koo (China), M. Reis (Portugal), M. Scialoja (Italy), and M. Larnaude (France).

Peace Conference in Session, Paris President Wilson is seated at the head of the table, on the right of the man who is standing and reading.

Signing the Peace Treaty Historical scene in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919.  President Wilson, sitting at table in front of third mirror from left, is shown affixing his signature first of all.

Signatures and Seals of the Peace Treaty Photograph shows last page of the original copy of the treaty, printed in both English and French.  The American delegates, Woodrow Wilson, Robert L. Lansing, Henry White, E. M. House, and Tasker H. Bliss, headed the list of signatories.

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