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Original envelope read, "Democratic National Convention, 1920." Negative is a group portrait of four men standing side-by-side. All of the men are wearing three piece suits with straw hats. They also have medals of some sort pinned to the lapels of thier coats. The man on the far right is wearing a bowtie and is holding a rolled up newspaper in his right hand The men may be delegates to the convention. The 1920 Democratic National Convention was held in San Francisco June 28 at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson. The party pledged ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and supported the League of Nations. The nominee was Governor James M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of the navy, for vice-president. The Republican nominee was Warren G. Harding, who went on to win the election.