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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman chez les paysans. Dexter Iowa 19 Septembre 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 22/9/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 22/9/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9469
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman semble optimiste quant aux resultats des elections. St. Louis Missouri 31 Octobre 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 2/11/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 2/11/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9437
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman pendu en effigie. Birmingham Alabama.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 23/7/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded light crease in upper right sheet corner. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 23/7/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9445
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman en vacances. Key West Floride.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 3/8/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 3/8/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9434
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman et la guerre du froid. Independence Missouri 27 Decembre 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 30/12/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 30/12/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9433
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman a la peche. Sun Valley Idaho 8 Juin 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 11/6/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 11/6/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9457
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman aux Antilles. San Juan Puerto Rico. de gauche a droite: le General Ray E. Porter Commandant les Forces Americaines aux Antilles; le Lieutenant General Willis D. Gritten-Berger Commandant les Forces Americaines aux Iles Caribes.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 2/26/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good pin holes in all four sheet corners. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 2/26/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9466
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le President Truman s’adresse a 400 membres d’un Seminaire Catholque de Rome 13 Mai 1948 dans les jardins de la maison blanche.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 19/5/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 19/5/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9461
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le Prince Saif Al-Islam Adullah du Royaume du Yemen recu par le President Truman a la maison blanche Washington 16 Juillet 1947.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 16/7/1947. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good pin holes in all four sheet corners sheet slightly rippled. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 16/7/1947. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9459
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le Shah de Perse confere avec le President Truman. Washington 18 novembre 1949.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 20/11/1949. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 20/11/1949. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9452
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le Traditionnel defile des caleches dans les rues de New York City 14 Septembre 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 17/9/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Label and stamp on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 17/9/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9327
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Le voyage du President Truman a travers les U.S.A. Key West Floride. Base Navale a gauche le Capitaine Cecil Adell commandant la base navale de Key West; a droite l’Admiral William D. Leahy.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 2/24/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 2/24/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9458
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
le yacht ‘Mingo’ a bord duquel le President Roosevelt entreprendra probablement sa croisiere d’ete sur les cotes de la nouvelle Angelterre.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 12/4/1934. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Good photograph slightly faded several creases and tears along sheet edges. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 12/4/1934. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9375
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Les Debuts de Margaret Truman a Hollywood Californie.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 2/8/1947. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 2/8/1947. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9471
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Les elections Presidentielles americaines. Voici le President Truman en compagnie de sa femme a gauche et de la fille Margaret au cours de sa camagne electorale a travers les U.S.A.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 2/11/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 2/11/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9451
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Les Etats-Unis et la situation internationale. Washington. Apres avoir mis le President Roosevelt de la situation en Europe William Bullitt Ambassadeur des U.S.A. a Paris Summer Wells Secretaire d’Etat Hugh Wilson Ambassadeur des U.S.A. en Allemagne et William Philipps Ambassadeur des U.S.A. en Italie.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 15/12/1938. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good small crease in lower right sheet corner. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 15/12/1938. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9501
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Les Funerailles du General John J. Pershing Washington D.C. 18 Juillet 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 21/7/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 16 cm sheet. Text in French. Label and stamp on verso. Very Good minor surface rubs. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 21/7/1948 unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9294
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Les Marcheurs de faim a Washington D.C.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 16 Jan. 1932. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded pin holes in all four sheet corners. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 16 Jan. 1932. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9360
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
L’Affaire Kosenkina. Le Consulat Sovietique 7 East 61eme rue New York a ete le Theatre ce soir d’un incident dramatique aux repercussions internationales. 13/8/1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 16/8/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 16/8/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9332
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
L’ane apres l’elephant. Les premieres informations laissent suppposter que le president Truman sera el-candidate au premier tour de scrutin. Phildelphie Pennsylvanie. U.S.A.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 13/7/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 13/7/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9407
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
L’arrivee au Havre de William C. Bullitt et sa fille le nouvel ambassadeur des Etats-Unis.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 30/3/1936. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 30/3/1936. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9511
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
L’etat d’alarm est proclame a Philadelphie pare suite des greves constantes.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 16/8/1937. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 16/8/1937. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9406
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
L’ouveture du Congres Americain. Le President Roosevelt faisant son discours au Congres.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 3/1/1936. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded a few creases along sheet edges. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 3/1/1936. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9381
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
M. Franklin Roosevelt le nouveau President des Etats-Unis ardent defenseur du regime humide. Vu par RED.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency circa 1940. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good a light crease in lower right sheet corner. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, [circa 1940]. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9528
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Marshall expose son plan de secours a l’Europe aux commissions de affaires etrangers des Etats-Unis.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 14/11/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 14/11/[1948]. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9476
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Message au monde. M. Roosevelt President de la Republique des Etats-Unis pronounce un discours au congres a Washington.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 2/1/1938. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good diagonal crease at upper right sheet corner. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 2/1/1938. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9524
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt femme du nouveau President de la Republique des Etats-Unis.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 10/11/1932. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good light creases in upper left sheet corner. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 10/11/1932. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9541
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Mrs. Roosevelt aux iles Vierges a Sainte-Croix.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 24/3/1934. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded a few creases in sheet corners. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 24/3/1934. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9379
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Myron Taylor representant du President Truman serend en Espagne.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 3/31/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 3/31/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9408
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
New York 21 Octobre 1948. Thomas Dewey Guverneur de l’etat de New York et candidat Republican a la presidence des Etats-Unis.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 23/10/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 23/10/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9487
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
New York City - le Dr. Hubertus J. van Mook Gouveneur General des Indes Orientales Hollandaises est arrive le 8 Sept a l’aerodrome de la Guardia a New York.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency Sept. 1947. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, Sept. 1947. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9361
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
New York City. 9 Mars 1947. Les Debuts de Miss Margaret Truman dans son tour de chant ont ete remis au 16 Mars souffrant de laryngite.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 15/3/1947. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good pin holes in all four sheet corners. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 15/3/1947. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9472
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New York Times Photos, Paris.
New York Police at the trial of 12 American communists in 1949 in New York: Henry Winston; Eugene Dennis; William Z. Foster; Benjamin Davis; Gus Hall; John Williamson Carl Winter; Irving Potash; John Gates; Robert Thompson; Jack Stachel. Original photograph.
New York: January 1949. Silver print . French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.On the afternoon of July 20 1948 FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City Chicago and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.The proceedings captivated the nation but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms too chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel. New York: January 1949 unknown
Bookseller reference : 51-6585
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
New York. 18 Novembre 1949. Mrs. Roosevelt et Misss Margaret Truman au bal. Le Club des Journaux Feminins New Yorkais. a l’hotel Waldorf-Astoria.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 21/11/1949. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 21/11/1949. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9543
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Noel.Terreur des Dindes Automatic turkey feather plucking machine U.S.A. Novembre 1949.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 16/11/1949. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 16/11/1949. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9344
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Nouvelle Session du Congres Americain Washington U.S.A 30 Decembre 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 3/1/1949. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 16 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good minor surface rubs. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 3/1/1949. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9292
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Par avion cette petite orpheline francaise rejoint ses parents adoptifs.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 16 Oct. 1947. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 16 Oct. 1947. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9335
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Paris 28 Septembre 1948. Madame Roosevelt parle de la paix a la Sorbonne.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 29/9/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 29/9/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9532
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Paris. Herbert Hoover Hotel de la Ville lumiere.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 25/2/1938. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 25/2/1938. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9499
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Paris. Herbert Hoover ancien president des Etats-Unis arrive en France.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 13/2/1938. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 13/2/1938. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9500
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Pas de pain pas de viande pas de beurre.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 15/6/1945. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded crease in lower left sheet corner. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 15/6/1945. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9399
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Paul G. Hoffman Administrateur du Plan Marshall pour l’Europe arrive a Paris.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 22/7/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 22/7/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9430
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Pendleton. Thomas Dewey candidat a la presidence s’entretient avec un chef indien lors d’une touenee de sa campagne electorale.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 23/6/1948. Original Press Photograph. 18 x 13 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 23/6/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9492
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Philadelphie Pennsylvanie. Le gouveneur Thomas E. Dewey et sa femme arrivent en auto a l’Hotel Bellevue-Startford a Philadelphie pour assister au congres national republicain des U.S.A. le 20 Juin 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 23/6/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 23/6/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9491
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New York Times Photos Agency, Paris.
Philadelphie Pennsylvanie. Le President Truman a ete elu condidat Democrate pour les elections presidentielles americaines de novembre 1948.
Paris: New York Times Photos Agency 17/7/1948. Original Press Photograph. 13 x 18 cm sheet. Text in French. Stamp and label on verso. Very Good photograph slightly faded. Paris: New York Times Photos Agency, 17/7/1948. unknown
Bookseller reference : 71-9447
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New York Times Photos, Paris.
Portrait of Richard Nixon and Robert Stripling looking at microfilm in connection with Whittaker Chamber's accusatiois. in 1948. Original photograph.
Washington DC: Circa January 1948. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.Robert Stripling was concerned. HUAC’s chief investigator didn’t trust Whittaker Chambers their star witness in the case against Alger Hiss feeling that even now he’d withheld some crucial evidence for reasons known only to himself. “He sits and lights his pipe he is cold and calculating and he knows exactly what he will do three weeks hence†Stripling complained. Since their case rested entirely on Chambers’ word it unnerved him. For now he and other committee members swallowed their reservations as the Case became an unparalleled public spectacle.It had been eight days since Hiss and Chambers met face-to-face in executive session. In preparation for the public showdown the Committee called a number of witnesses trying to corroborate details of the two’s relationship. Among them was Priscilla Hiss who dimly remembered George Crosley – Chambers’ alleged alias – as “a small person very smiling person—a little too smiley perhaps.†Others Chambers named in his initial testimony including John Abt and Lee Pressman denied knowing Chambers at all nor did peripheral witnesses clarify details about Hiss selling Chambers a 1929 Ford or his leasing Chambers an apartment. It seemed like the case whatever its merits would come down to public drama.Already theatrical Hiss and Chambers’ dispute exploded into soap opera on August 25th. Thousands of sweating spectators and jostling journalists packed the Capitol; television crews broadcast the hearings live to millions across the country the first glimpse many Americans received of Congress in action. Those who knew the two men only from newspaper accounts and newsreel footage could now judge for themselves. J. Parnell Thomas the Committee chairman summarized the stakes: “As a result of this hearing certainly one of these witnesses will be tried for perjury Washington, DC: Circa January 1948 unknown
Bookseller reference : 51-6591
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Portrait of William Z. Foster 1881-1961 one 12 American communists in 1949. Trial of: Henry Winston; Eugene Dennis; Benjamin Davis; Gus Hall; John Williamson Carl Winter; Irving Potash; John Gates; Robert Thompson; Jack Stachel. Original photograph.
New York: Circa Sept. 1949. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism William Z. Foster 1881-1961 fought his way out of the slums of turn-of-the-century Philadelphia to become a professional revolutionary as well as a notorious and feared labor agitator. Drawing on private family papers FBI files and recently opened Russian archives this first full-scale biography traces Foster’s early life as a world traveler railroad worker seaman hobo union activist and radical journalist and also probes the origins and implications of his ill-fated career as a top-echelon Communist official and three-time presidential candidate. Even though Foster’s long and eventful life ended in Moscow where he was given a state funeral in Red Square he was as portrayed here a thoroughly American radical.On the afternoon of July 20 1948 FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City Chicago and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.The proceedings captivated the nation but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms too chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel. New York: Circa Sept. 1949 unknown
Bookseller reference : 51-6587
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Portrait of Eugene Dennis national chairman of the Communist party in 1947 Original photograph.
1947. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 18 x 13 x cm.NYT February 1 1961:Eugene Dennis national chairman of the Communist party in the United States died yesterday of cancer in Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 56 years old. His home was at 626 West 151st Street. Mr. Dennis was general secretary of the Communist party in this country from its peak period in 1945 when it numbered about 80000 members to its decline in 1957 when the membership was about 20000. It is now believed to be fewer than 10000. In 1957 Mr. Dennis became the party's secretary of national affairs and a member of its executive committee. He was named national chairman in December 1959. The party had been split by factionalism after the Soviet Union's show of force in Hungary in 1956. He supported Russian action to quell the Hungarian uprising but advocated greater party independence from Moscow dictation. He led middle-of-the-roaders opposing William Z. Foster then national chairman who demanded continued allegiance to Russia. When in 1957 the party received a letter from Jacques Duclos top French Communist chiding it for "dangerous" tendencies and urging solidarity with Soviet foreign policy Mr. Dennis said: “Our decisions will be our own.â€.In 1956 he said the party had lost its influence and became politically isolated by policies too far to the left. He wrote an article for The Daily Worker asking whether Premier Khrushchev of the Soviet Union and his colleagues could not have done something to restrain Stalin's terror. He thus took a considerably more moderate position than Mr. Foster a stanch Stalinist.Mr. Dennis invoked the Fifth Amendment in an appearance in February 1957 before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee in Washington and refused to testify.Mr. Dennis had been a member of the party since 1926. In 1949 he was convicted under the Smith Act as one of the eleven "first-string" Communists tried in Federal Court here for conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the Government by force and violence. Judge Harold R. Medina who presided at the nine-month trial sentenced him to five years in prison. Higher courts upheld the sentence and the Communist leader served three years and nine months in Atlanta Penitentiary from July 22 1951 to March 1 1955 receiving time off for good behavior 1947 unknown
Bookseller reference : 51-6592
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Portrait of Benjamin J. Davis Jr. September 8 1903-August 22 1964 protesting a proposed bill to prevent Communists from running for office i 1948. Original photograph.
Washington DC: Circa January 1948. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.Benjamin J. Davis Jr. September 8 1903-August 22 1964 was an African American lawyer and Communist elected in 1943 to the New York City Council representing Harlem. He served two terms as the Communist Councilman from Harlem. However he was unceremoniously – perhaps illegally – ousted in 1949 as the Red Scare intensified. During the 1950s McCarthy period he served five years in jail as a victim of the fascist Smith Act. Gerald Horne’s Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party is the definitive biography of Davis and his autobiography is titled The Communist Councilman from Harlem.On the afternoon of July 20 1948 FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City Chicago and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.The proceedings captivated the nation but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms too chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel. Washington, DC: Circa January 1948 unknown
Bookseller reference : 51-6588
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Portrait of Elizabeth Bentley 1908-1963testifying to the US Senate about Communists in 1948. Original photograph.
Washington DC: Circa January 1948. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.Elizabeth Bentley 1908-1963 was an American communist and Soviet spy. She worked closely with Jacob Goros to manage the Communist Party USA CPUSA network of KGB sources and spies. In 1945 she defected and confessed her involvement with the KGB to the FBI. In her FBI deposition she also named forty-one Soviet spies and sources living and working in the United States.On the afternoon of July 20 1948 FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City Chicago and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.The proceedings captivated the nation but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms too chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel. Washington, DC: Circa January 1948 unknown
Bookseller reference : 51-6589
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