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"The War to End All Wars" collection of three autographed book plates by William G. McAdoo, Newton D. Baker, and Wiliam S. Sims.

Suite of three exquisitely copperplate-engraved World War I-themed Red Cross bookplates, “Friends of Humanity,” their logo flanked by two reflective allegorical females. 1918, 3-1/4 x 4-1/2. By the young pioneering woman artist Loren Roberta Barton, known for her picturesque views of Los Angeles’ Mexican quarter and San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Signed by W(illiam) G. McAdoo, Secretary of Treasury during World War I. Son-in-law of Pres. Wilson; Pres., Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, whose office building, said to be the largest in the world, would be eminent-domained for another – the World Trade Center. Considered as Democratic Presidential candidate, 1920 and 1924. Newton D. Baker, Sec. of War, whose eloquent pro-League of Nations speech at the 1924 Democratic National Convention - marked for its 103 ballots - caused “men and women everywhere (to) burst into tears.” A candidate for Pres. in 1932, Baker yielded to F.D.R. • And, (Adm.) Wm. S. Sims, in charge of Naval Operations during World War I; possibly the only career Naval officer to win a Pulitzer Prize, this for his co-authored The Victory at Sea. Twice Pres., Naval War College. First Capt. of U.S.S. Nevada, then the Navy’s largest and most powerful ship – and the only vessel in Battleship Row to get underway from Pearl Harbor twenty-five years later, though torpedoed and then beached.

Fine condition.

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Includes a full letter of authenticity from JG Autographs, Inc.

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Reference sku: 11587 1393988-1