Opera singers and musicians opening the Operatic Liberty Loan Offices at Aeolian Hall, New York...

Harry Birnbaum, pianist Philip Gordon, publicist Edward Louis Bernays, American opera singer Rita Fornia, Mrs. Francis Charles Coppicus, wife of the general secretary of the Metropolitan Opera; Italian opera singers Pasquale Amato and Luca Botta, H.M. Wykes, member of the Liberty Bond Publicity Committee, Gordon Kay, F.C. Schang and Fred C. Haas. Bernays (1891-1995) was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and began his career as press agent to the arts in 1913. In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson engaged George Creel to head the Committee on Public Information, an organisation created to persuade Americans to support World War I, which employed Bernays. Known as the 'father of public relations' he was hired by the American Tobacco Company in the 1920s for a campaign to persuade women to start smoking.