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An American lady, a painter of great merit and a skilled photographer is at present in Lisbon. She is Miss Florence Arquin, whom the American Department of State has assigned with the cultural mission of making up a photographical report of the artistic patrimony of divers South American countries. 

Miss Arquin, who is a great authority on matters of art of the Latin-American countries, has made long visits to Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador and it was the presence of Portugal in Brazilian architecture and sculpture, in the Churches of Belem and Baia of the XVIII century and in the peoples and costumes, that awoke in her her interest for our country. 

Miss Florence Arquin who has been a professor of arts in North American Universities is travelling with her husband, Mr. Sam William, and is now doing in Portugal on her own initiative and for the sake of art, the same documentary work she realized in South America, for which she was commissioned by the State Department. Her collections of coloured photos will become to-morrow in the hands of teachers and pupils and of the great American public, a valuable element of propaganda for our country - element for which we shall be indebted to an illustrious artist whose presence amongst us should be registered with gratefulness.