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International News Photos Ma-In-Law Steals Show From New Head of USIA

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09677.17 Author/Creator: International News Photos Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 1957 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 17.3 cm, Width: 23.2 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto released by International News Photos dated 1957. Shows President Eisenhower smiling and greeting a woman. The attached press release states that the woman in the photo is Mrs. John T. Martin, the mother-in-law of George V. Allen. He was being sworn is as the head of the United States Information Agency. The date has been approximated based on when George V. Allen became the head of the U.S.I.A. The back of the photo is stamped with International News Photo information

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Allen, George V., 1903-1970
Martin, John T., Mrs., fl. 1957

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