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Correspondence between E.G. Liebold and Lou Henry Hoover regarding Light's Golden Jubilee Banquet Painting, 1936 - In the mid-1930s, more than six years after the Light's Golden Jubilee celebration, Henry Ford commissioned a panoramic painting of that evening's banquet. Letters were sent to attendees--including those at the head table--asking where they sat and for a photograph so that their image could be included in the painting. Former First Lady Lou Henry Hoover replied and gave her impressions of the evening.
October 21, 1929
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Correspondence between E.G. Liebold and Lou Henry Hoover regarding Light's Golden Jubilee Banquet Painting, 1936
In the mid-1930s, more than six years after the Light's Golden Jubilee celebration, Henry Ford commissioned a panoramic painting of that evening's banquet. Letters were sent to attendees--including those at the head table--asking where they sat and for a photograph so that their image could be included in the painting. Former First Lady Lou Henry Hoover replied and gave her impressions of the evening.