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Francis I. Thompson Collection
Thompson was a White House news photographer during the Coolidge through Truman administrations. He traveled carte blanche with the press corps and was with President Truman on the Augusta on their way to the Potsdam Conference. The collection contains a presidential log of the Berlin Conference, a top secret letter outlining press corps rules for the Berlin trip, the Senate Hearing making declaration of war, and two blank invitation cards printed for Field Marshall Göring.
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Sometime in 1968, C. W. Bowman took care of a young Vietnamese boy. He picked him up off the streets in Saigon during the Tet offensive (January-September of 1968). The boy’s family had been killed and he was living on the street. Charles Bowman bought him a uniform and fed him at the Company area.
Scene along country road in northern France.
Factory under construction in northern France.
Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.
Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.
Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.
Scene along the road in northern France.
Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.
Collection Number: 278 SC
Date: 1945
Collection Size: 2 ff
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