Newberry Library - U.S. Foreign Service trip, unidentified location, Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference photographs and scrapbook, approximately 1940-1949

U.S. Foreign Service trip, unidentified location, Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference photographs and scrapbook, approximately 1940-1949

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Title U.S. Foreign Service trip, unidentified location, Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference photographs and scrapbook, approximately 1940-1949

Date approximately 1940-1949

Place Ukraine

Subjects United States. Foreign Service, World War, 1939-1945, Yalta Conference (1945 : Yalta, Ukraine)

Description Material related to the activities of the United States Department of State during the months of January-March, 1945 with a particular focus on the Malta Conference, the Yalta Conference, the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, and the travels of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius in Northern Africa and Central America. Box 2 holds individual folders of photographic negatives taken by Graham and corresponding contact sheets. Subjects featured in these images included Edward R. Stettinius, Alger Hiss, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Edward R, Stettinius, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Ralph Graham. All images have been digitized and are available online.

Biographical/Historical Note Born in 1919 in Philadelphia, Ralph Luke Graham was appointed to the United States Foreign Service in 1944 and served as a personal secretary to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius during the contentious winter of 1945 as end of the Second World War loomed on the horizon and the “Big Three” were forced to confront the reality of the post-war period. An amateur photographer, Graham took numerous candid and heretofore unseen photographs of the leaders of the “Big Three” as well as more tourist-oriented images of the various locations visited by Secretary Stettinius in 1945 including Morocco, Senegal, and the Crimea with his Leica 35 mm camera. Graham died in 1986 and is survived by his wife, Mary L. Graham.

Format Negatives, Photographs

Archival Collection Title Ralph L. Graham Yalta Conference photographs and scrapbook

Link to Catalog View Catalog Record | View Finding Aid

Call Number Midwest MS Graham

BibID 9911527683305867

Projects Tag Modern Manuscript Digital Collection (Newberry Library)

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1706px × 1007px 4.92 MB

File Created 07/11/2015

Filename Yalta_211.tif

Unique Identifier NL1ULGZ

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