English: Delegates Chosen by Popular Vote to Form New German Government.

Friedrich ebert delivering his address of acceptance as the first president of germany before the delegates of the constitutional assembly in the court theatre at Weimar, Feb. 6, 1919.

Ebert was given a great ovation at the conclusion of his speech.

About him on the platform are Scheidemann, Landsberg, Noske, Preuss, Erzberger, Brockdorff-Rantzau, and other leading statesmen of the new regime.

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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)

Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)

Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works. New York--New York Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction Repository: Library of Congress, Serials and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540

Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231

General information about the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 digital collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037