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More Bain/LOC photos from the Peace Conference at Niagara Falls:

NYT of May 22, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E5DA113FE633A... "William B. Howland, President of the Niagara State Reservation, crossed over from the American side of the falls to-day to invite the peace envoys and delegates to visit the Administration Building of the Reservation and take a trip in the steamboat Maid of the Mist to the foot of the cataract. "

I identified everyone and have tried to write biographies for each person that wasn't in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rómulo Sebastián Naón en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rucker_Lamar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domicio_da_Gama en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Lehmann en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Suarez_Mujica

More Bain/LOC photos from the Peace Conference at Niagara Falls:

Richard Arthur Norton: Thanks for the full names here. We'll include this info. next time we update the description.

LOC: note that "de Gama" should read "da Gama".

Wystan: Thanks for catching Bain's typo in the caption and for bringing this set of images related to the peace conference in Niagara Falls together.

Location of 1914 international peace conference in relation to U.S. intervention in Mexico.

Another photo of the hotel, with more information about the conference and the building, is:


See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/niagarafal... for more photos.

The earlier Village of Clifton and thus the present Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls (and thus the Hotel) named ultimately for the town of Clifton in England.

Thanks swanq and jamica1 for the information about this image. We will add more details to the description when we update.