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He was an official in Near East Relief in the 20's, like some of the others in this 1927 series, a U.S. foreign aid program created in response to the Armenian Genocide: "Acheson, Rev. George Barclay D.D.: Leader in the Near East Relief movement and New Era Movement for the Presbyterian Church in the 1920's and 30's. Awarded the Greek Red Cross Medal (1927) & Order of the Phoenix of Greece (1930)." www.armenian-genocide.org/ner.html home.gwi.net/ages/Main Body/Noteworthy Kinsmen.html books.google.com/books?id=jvJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA157&d... Brother of Lila Bell Wallace, co-founder of Readers Digest. He was in New York on January 19, 1927 , to address the annual meeting of Near East Relief as its Director General of Overseas Operations. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D11FF3E5B157A... The four honorees pictured in this collection: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/neareastre...

artolog: Thank you for the very detailed information on Rev. Acheson, complete with citations. This will be very helpful in expanding the description of this photo.

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Church youth group photographed in front of Asbarez offices on 2229 Ventura Avenue, possibly after an intra-church baseball game

This is Harold Clarence Jaquith [note spelling]. His New York Times obituary Apr 21, 1943 says he was president of Illinois College from 1933 to 1938, Director of Near East Relief in Istanbul and Athens from 1920 to 1929, and Provost of Trinity College, Hartford, CT. The obit isn't on the internet in full text but it is available on ProQuest. There is also an article in the New York Times from Jan 20, 1926 describing his marriage to Marie Harin. The article says she was a Russian aristocrat who fled the revolution and went to work for Near East Relief where she met Mr. Jaquith. That article is also on ProQuest.

I think this photo must be later then 1915 also. He mostly seems to have been in the news in the 1920s when he was Director of Near East Relief helping Armenian and Greek refugees in Turkey.

Date on photo is 1/20/27, one of several 1927shots in this series. LOC, is there an explanation for that? www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/1927/

He was in New York on January 19, 1927 , at the annual meeting of Near East Relief to receive the organization's Distinguished Service Medal as a member of its overseas staff. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D11FF3E5B157A... The four honorees pictured in this collection: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/neareastre...

j3net and artolog, Thanks for the further details on Mr. Jaquith, and his activities. We can add more to the record when we update. artolog: We have not been able to find an explanation why the Bain News Service sometimes had much later negatives numbered and inserted in the sequence with earlier negatives. They numbered the negatives, and adhered to a chronological sequence most of the time, but there are these chunks of images from the 1920s that do crop up in the middle of an earlier sequence. One day we'll crack the code as to why. (When you see both an early date and a later date on one negative, we presume the later date could reflect the 'last used' date or the date of acquisition or purchase.) It's an excellent question!