The Washington Peace Carillon

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A PEACE CARILLON [*]

A MEMORIAL BUILDING WITH BELL TOWER AND PEACE CARILLON.

THE FIRST CONCERT

A Brochure Issued by Lovers of the Bells and Dedicated to Others of Their Kind. Done in the Interest of a Greater Washington.

Illustration: Re-engraved from Belgian Towers Calendar Courtesy of William Gorham Rice

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Whose carillon of 52 bells has given joy to many thousands. In December, 1814, these bells rang out at the signing of the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, and but for the outbreak of the great war, would in 1914 have celebrated the completion of a hundred years of unbroken peace between the two nations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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