Photograph shows Joseph A. Bower, Vice President of the Liberty Bank, New York City, acting as an auctioneer during the first auction sale of alien-owned property held in Richmond, VA on May 20, 1918. John M. Taylor, Custodian of Alien Property, was in charge of the sale. People were urged to buy up the 4,000,000 pounds of tobacco, which sold at an average price of 26 cents per pound.

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