Records of the Agency for International Development. 1948 - 2003. Photographs of Marshall Plan Activities in Europe and Africa

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Records of the Agency for International Development. 1948 - 2003. Photographs of Marshall Plan Activities in Europe and Africa

1945-1954

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This series consists of photographs taken by photojournalists, such as Werner Bischof, Ernst Haas, and Charles Fenno Jacobs, primarily for the Economic Cooperation Administration and were initially maintained in its Paris, France office. Pictured are aid programs in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. In addition, this series includes images of aid programs in French territories in Africa, including French Cameroons and the federations of French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa. Subjects of interest in this series include medical care, housing, land reclamation, training, and the rehabilitation of various industries, including agriculture, automobile, coal, cotton, diamond, energy, fishing, lumber, oil, shipping, steel, and telecommunications. Also included are views of Marshall Plan officials and ceremonies. Photographs of interest in this series include pictures of Secretary of State George C. Marshall at Harvard University on June 5, 1947 (286-ME-13-10 through 13-13). The photographs were taken during a visit to Harvard, where Secretary Marshall received an honorary degree and gave the commencement speech, which is now known as the "Marshall Plan Speech". Fellow honorary degree recipients physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (286-ME-13-10, 13-12 and 13-13), General Omar Bradley (286-ME-13-10 through 13-12), and poet T. S. Eliot (286-ME-13-10 and 13-12) are also pictured. Furthermore, this series contains a view of Secretary Marshall and Undersecretary Robert A. Lovett presenting the European Recovery Program to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1948 (286-ME-13-7), and a group portrait of Secretary Marshall, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault at a meeting in March 1947 (286-ME-13-9). Another group of photographs of particular interest in this series include views of U.S. President Harry S. Truman signing several bills, including the Land-Lease Extension Act on April 17, 1945 (286-ME-14-1), Global Aid Bill on April 2, 1948 (286-ME-14-5), European Recovery Authorization Bill on April 19, 1949 (286-ME-14-2 and 14-4), and the Foreign Aid Bill on June 5, 1950 (286-ME-14-3).

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Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-1986

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Jacobs, Fenno, 1904-1975

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Haas, Ernst, 1921-1986

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Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951

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Lovett, Robert A. (Robert Abercrombie), 1895-1986

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Bidault, Georges

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Bischof, Werner, 1916-1954

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B. Apr. 26, 1916, Zürich, Switzerland; d. May 16, 1954; became a member of the Magnum Photo Inc. in 1949;Education: studied photography at Zurich's School for Arts and Crafts, 1932 to 1936. From the description of Werner Bischof : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 611950392 ...