This is a photograph we dug up at the Library of Congress. It shows a parade in honor of Nicaraguan President Gen. Anastasio Somoza, visiting the city on May 5th, 1939.
A Parade in Honor of Nicaraguan President Gen. Anastasio Somoza, May 5th, 1939
- Published June 12, 2013
This is a photograph of a parade in honor of Nicaraguan President Gen. Anastasio Somoza, visiting the city in 1939. The parade was captured in a photo that was recently discovered in the Library of Congress.
![1943. On maneuvers in wartime Washington. "A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old [Russell] Senate Office Building behind them." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency, photographer unknown. Office of War Information.](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/09/1a35462u_0-768x611.jpg)
