Seated Left to Right: Rev. Hilary G. Richardson, Walter C. Preston, Anna Kennedy Davis, John J. Davis, Julia McDonald Davis. Standing Left to Right: Lillie Davis Preston, Emma Kennedy Davis, Anna Holmes Davis Richardson, John W. Davis, John James Davis Preston.
Gathering for the first production of "Anvil" in Charles Town, W. Va. for the West Virginia Centennial. Identified in the photograph: left Seated, Erma Ora Byrd and Robert C. Byrd; far right seated, Julia Davis Adams. "The Anvil" was a play written by Julia Davis about the John Brown Raid for the Civil War Centennial. Her grandparents were from Charles Town where Brown was tried and hanged. Her grandfather witnessed the execution.
Board of Trustees, Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Date:
1935/12/14
Description:
25th Anniversary Meeting, Board of Trustees, Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, December 14/ 1935. At the residence of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, No. 2 East 91st St., New York City. Left to right, seated: Alanson B. Houghton, Count Paul Teleki, Count Carlo Sforza, Elihu Root, Austen G. Fox, Charles S. Hamlin, Roland S. Morris, Frank O. Lowden. Standing: George A. Finch, Edward L. Ryerson, Jr., Robert A. Taft, Peter Molyneaux, Mrs. Roswell Miller, Thomas J. Watson, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Nicholas Murray Butler, James Brown Scott, John W. Davis, James T. Shotwell, William Marshal Bullitt, Maurice S. Sherman, MME. Mathilde Perreux, Daniel K. Catlin, Wallace Mck. Alexander, Francis P. Gaines, Malcolm W. Davis, Henry S. Haskell.