Records of the Army Staff. 1903 - 2009. Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Military Personnel, Defense Department and Other Government Officials, Royalty, and Heads of State. 1964-1974.
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Records of the Army Staff. 1903 - 2009. Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Military Personnel, Defense Department and Other Government Officials, Royalty, and Heads of State.
This series consists of black-and-white and color photographs, the majority of which were taken by U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers. The photographs record U.S. and foreign military personnel, Defense Department officials and other U.S. government employees, U.S. presidents and vice presidents, foreign heads of state, royalty, sports figures and entertainers, historical figures, and other notable individuals. The series is a mix of portraits of individuals, including photographs of paintings, and images documenting ceremonial events and visits by U.S. and foreign government officials and military leaders.
Among the U.S military officers pictured in this series are Generals Creighton Abrams, Omar Bradley, Claire Chennault, Mark Clark, Lucius Clay, George Armstrong Custer, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Charles Dodge, James Doolittle, William J. Donovan, Robert L. Eichelberger, Benjamin D. Foulois, Frederick Funston, George W. Goethals, Adolphus W. Greely, Leslie Groves, Alexander Haig, Hugh P. Harris, Lucius R. Holbrook, Lewis B. Hershey, Oliver O. Howard, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, John A. Lejeune, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, George S. Patton, and Maxwell D. Taylor; and Admirals Samuel Gravely, Jr., William F. Halsey, and Ernest J. King. In addition, there are photographs of the much decorated Colonel David H. Hackworth and of Confederate Generals Jubal A. Early, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Many of the photographs in the series show foreign military officers on official visits, in training, or participating in joint exercises, as well as images of some of the key figures in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Of note are images of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, Air Marshal George Jones, and Generals Joseph Joffre, Alfred Jodl, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.
The U.S. presidents pictured in this series are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S Truman. Photographs of two vice presidents, Charles Dawes and Hubert H. Humphrey, are included as well. There are also photographs of presidential and vice presidential spouses and other family members, such as Muriel Humphrey and Margaret Truman.
Other persons of note represented in the series are Governor Thomas A. Dewey, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, several members of the U.S. Congress, and top government officials. Included are photographs of Senators Prescott Bush, Everett Dirksen, Barry Goldwater, Roman Hruska, Daniel Inouye, Jacob Javits, Estes Kefauver, and Edward M. Kennedy; Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson; Secretaries of Defense James V. Forrestal and Melvin Laird; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Allen W. Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Joseph A. Califano; and Ambassadors Arthur J. Goldberg, W. Averell Harriman, and Joseph P. Kennedy. In addition, there are pictures of cabinet officers Alexander Hamilton, Orville Freeman, Oveta Culp Hobby, Harry Hopkins, and Harold Ickes.
The visits of several heads of state, political leaders, and members of royal families are recorded in this series. Some of the individuals pictured are King Bhumibol of Thailand, Chancellors Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt and Ludwig Erhard of West Germany; Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba, French Premier Georges Clememceau, Chinese Nationalist leader General Chiang Kai-shek and Mrs. Chiang, Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi, King Edward VIII of England, King Faisal II of Iraq, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Norwegian King Haakon VII and Prince Harald, British Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, West German President Theodor Heuss, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda of Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbary, King Hussein I of Jordan, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Lord Ismay, Prime Minister Joseph Leabua Jonathan of Lesotho, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, West German Chancellor Kurt G. Kiesinger, Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, First Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam, and Thai Prime Minister Thanon Kittikachorn.
Included also are photographs of astronauts Frank Borman and John Glenn, physicist Enrico Fermi, lecturer Helen Keller, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and nurse Elizabeth Kenny. Also represented are entertainment figures Sammy Davis, Jr., Samuel Goldwyn, Bob Hope, Jose Iturbi, Al Jolson, and Boris Karloff. Historical personages pictured include American Revolutionary War patriots Tadeuz Kosciuszko and the Marquis de Lafayette, soldier and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, explorer and political leader John Fremont, social reformer Dorothea Dix, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo, labor leader Samuel Gompers, and French scientist and army general Gustav-Auguste Ferrie. There are also photographs of French nurse Genevieve de Galard Terraube, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom for meritorious service during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In addition, there are a few photographs of Native Americans in the series. Of interest are photographs of Army scout Hunting Horse at his 100th and 106th birthday parties.
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4 Letter Archives Box, Narrow 2.5 inch 285 Letter Archives Box, Standard
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