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John Hay signs Treaty of Paris, 1899.JPG
John Hay, Secretary of State, signing the memorandum of ratification on behalf of the United States, from p. 430 of
Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain
, Vol. II, published by Harper and Brothers in 1899.
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