Page 12: L. Mendel Rivers at Luncheon

Description:

Color photograph of a group of men. Congressman L. Mendel Rivers is seated in third from the left. They are attending the luncheon in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in celebration of appointing Rivers to the rank of Honorary Colonel as a member of the Old Guard, City of Philadelphia. Handwritten album label at the bottom, "Group at Luncheon June 6, 1964."

Gift of Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman.

• Title: Page 12: L. Mendel Rivers at Luncheon
• Creator: Unattributed
• Date: June 6, 1964

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• Collection: Photograph Album Collection
• Object Name: Old Guard, City of Philadelphia Album
• Object Id: 2018.30.35.12

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