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JOHANN HEINRICH

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VON BERNSTORFF

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GERMAN AMBASSADOR

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in USA

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON

AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY. LEFT

Harris & Ewing, photographer

1917

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON

AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY

Harris & Ewing, photographer

1917

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON.

AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY

1917

Harris & Ewing, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY

Harris & Ewing, photographer

1917

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON. AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY. LEAVING GERMAN EMBASSY

1917

Harris & Ewing, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON. AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY. LEAVING GERMAN EMBASSY

1917

Harris & Ewing, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON. AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY. LEAVING GERMAN EMBASSY

1917

Harris & Ewing, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON. AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY. LEAVING GERMAN EMBASSY

1917

Harris & Ewing, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

BERNSTORFF, COUNT J.H. VON. AMBASSADOR FROM GERMANY. LEAVING GERMAN EMBASSY

1917

Harris & Ewing, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

Assorted cargo for the return trip

Diplomat, possibly Johann von Bernstorff, seated on ship cargo at pier labeled: "Embassy pets, Count von Bernstorff, Berlin, Germany, via U submersible freight" and "Von Egels safe."

 "Plot to sink the Lusitania,"

 "Munitions plot,"

and "Welland Canal plot" on snakes;

"Hyphen" on dachsund.

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

1916

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

For ways that are dark

Masked man with suitcase, "Dynamite, von Papen," accepting money from German diplomat

(Johann von Bernstorff)

approaching "White House" with paper reading:

"The imperial government reiterates its belief in those humane practices

for which it has been so justly noted,

thus forever burying the Lusitania in a sea of ink

[signed] von Bernstorff."

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

1916

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

von bernstorff german ambassador ww1 washington 1917

Decoration day in Washington

"Lusitania, slain by pirates, May 7, 1915"

on gravestone in foreground and "May she rest in peace,

compliments of the Kaiser [signed] von Bernstorff" on ribbon.

"Here lies Arabic, murdered, Aug. 19, 1915 from von Tirpitz"

on grave at center background.

Donkey peering out from behind gravestone

while von Bernstorff lays flowers on grave.

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

1916

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

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