The dramatic scene in the sitting-room of an old-fashioned Yankee homestead at Plymouth, Vt., where in the early morning hours of Aug. 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by his father as 30th President of the U. S., will be commemorated in a painting by Walter Gilman Page of Boston, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Art Commission. Page has recorded all the details of the room—glass lamp, family Bible, old combination desk and bookcase, bowl of flowers, bay window and Col. John Coolidge himself—an interior full of pictorial, as well as historical,...
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