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Harris & Ewing, fl. 1905-1977 To the American Embassy in Tokyo from Franklink Roosevelt

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07527 Author/Creator: Harris & Ewing, fl. 1905-1977 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph signed Date: 1938-1940 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph : sepia Height: 21.4 cm, Width: 25.3 cm Order a Copy

Tite from mount. The photograph depicts FDR looking up from a document, with a pen in his hand. See similar photograph GLC04675.06, unnamed recipient, dated ca. 1935. (This copy has liquid damage.)

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945

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