Caption: Chairman of the Committee on Public Information George Creel bids farewell to newspaper men on the gangplank of the Orizaba as it departs on December 1, 1918. The photograph, taken by Lt. Geo. Lyon and approved by the censor on December 13, 1918, captures the historic moment of Creel seeing off the journalists.

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