Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1906)

ID: 195 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LOT 11735 [item] [P&P]. ~ Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) ~ Date: September 8, 1906

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Photograph of Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851-1921).

This file appears in: The Walbert

The Walbert

By Eli Pousson

The story of this landmark begins in 1907, when Charles J. Bonaparte—a great-nephew to Emperor Napoleon I of France, a prominent local lawyer and, at the time, attorney general under President Theodore Roosevelt—first announced plans for the…