Unveiling of the Bust of General Lee at the Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

Identifier:

008680

Title:

Unveiling of the Bust of General Lee at the Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

Date:

1938

Creator:

White Sulphur Springs News Bureau

Description:

'White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Honorable H.G. Kump, Governor of the State of West Virginia introduced by Dr. Francis Pendleton Gaines, President of Washington and Lee University, unveiled the bust of General Lee, which was modeled by Sculptor J.C. Motto of Cleveland, and Rome, at an impressive ceremony at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on Monday evening the 27th. The unveiling climaxed the Annual Children's Fancy Dress Ball, which took place in the Grand Ballroom. Sculptor Motto is standing beside the Bust.'

Subjects:

Hotels--West Virginia--White Sulphur Springs., Cities--White Sulphur Springs.

Personal Names:

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870., Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962., Gaines, Francis Pendleton, 1892-1963.

Geographic:

Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.)

Acquisition Source:

Greenbrier County W. P.

Acquisition Method:

Transfer

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView