Publisher John Stewart Bryan With Prominent Current or Former Employees

In a photograph taken in 1939 or 1940, John Stewart Bryan poses with a gathering of prominent newspapermen who worked or had once worked for him. From left to right are Douglas Southall Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader and biographer of Confederate general Robert E. Lee; St. George Bryan, Bryan's brother; Louis Isaac Jaffé, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot; Bryan; Douglas Gordon, president of Saint John's College of Annapolis, Maryland, and noted bibliophile; Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; William B. Smith; and Robert Glass.