John S. D. Eisenhower Papers, 1944 - 1988. Photographs from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Albums.

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John S. D. Eisenhower Papers, 1944 - 1988. Photographs from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Albums.

1920 - 1951.

The photographs in this series were removed from a series of albums containing awards, diplomatic documents, and photographs presented to Dwight D. Eisenhower during his military and presidential careers. These photographs are mostly portraits (some studio portraits), and are all inscribed and/or signed by the subjects except for one photo which bears facsimile signatures of King George VI of Great Britain and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The portraits feature high-ranking military officers Eisenhower worked with before and during World War II, United States government officials, and leaders of allied nations. Persons from the United States featured in the series include President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; Assistant Secretaries of War Patrick J. Hurley, Charles Burton Robbins, Frederick H. Payne, and John J. McCloy; Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; General John J. Pershing; Lt. Gen. George C. Marshall; Gen. Douglas MacArthur; Maj. Gen. Frank S. Cocheu; Admiral Ernest J. King; Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold; Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley; Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger; Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley; Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith; Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney; Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee; Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.; Brig. Gen. Thomas Jefferson Davis; Brig. Gen. William Lecel Lee; Col. Samuel Beach; and Capt. Mark Kincaid Lewis, Jr. Photos in the series also feature President of the Philippines Manuel Luis Quezon, Maj. Gen. Basilio J. Valdes, King George VI of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, Field Marshall Jan C. Smuts, General Alan F. Brooke, General Harold R. Alexander, Lt. Gen. Humfrey M. Gale, Lt. Gen. Hastings Ismay, Air Chief Marshal Charles F. A. Portal, Air Chief Marshal Arthur W. Tedder, Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Admiral Bertram H. Ramsay, Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham, Prince Felix of Luxembourg, Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, Gen. Henry D. G. Crerar, Joseph Stalin, Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, General Chiang Kai-Shek, President of Brazil Eurico Gaspar Dutra, and Gen. José Bina Machado.

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