Panoramic view of Lake Fairlee from Quinibeck Lookout, August 10, 1920.
On this day in 1920 Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues, which would go on to be the first blues recording in American musical history to cross over the racial divide and be a general musical hit.
Mamie Smith
Smith would go on to have a short but successful blues career, but after her retirement from music things did not go as well. She died penniless in 1946 at age 55 and was buried in an unmarked grave in New York City. A gravestone was finally erected after a campaign to have one installed in 2012.
The Ottoman government signed the Treaty of Sevres in which they agreed to dismantle the Ottoman Empire, recognize Greek and Italian claims to Anatolian domains, and grant Armenia independence.
Signed outside of Paris, the Ottoman government was already fighting a revolt from Ataturk and therefor the treaty would never really come into full effect in the way envisioned. Those parts of that would more or less be carried out were in those areas where the Allied already controlled Ottoman domains outside of Anatolia.
Regarded as an example of outrageous overreach by the Allies today, the treat wasn't completely without its merits. The release of non Ottoman territories in Arabia, if only into mandates that were effectively European colonies, did recognize that those areas should eventually be independant, even though they definitely were not at the time. Achieving a free Kurdistan and Armenia would have been a real achievement, the former of which has never occured and which continues to plague the region today. Greek claims to the Anatolian mainland grossly overreached, however, and doomed any chance of acceptance of the treaty, which in turn doomed Armenian and Kurdish independence.
Photographed on this day in 1920, with "US" service lapel pins, campaign ribbons, Nurses service pin, and overseas stripes. Still really don't know what more is here, but something is as it was a news photograph.
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