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Mrs. A. Slionsaremko, wife of First Secretary of Russian Embassy, Madame Wei Tao Ming, Mrs. Walter Lippman (?), Madame Andrei A. Gromyko at a reception celebrating International Women's Day at the home of Joseph E. Davies, former United States Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Lady Sanaom, Madame Bonnet, Mr. Vladimir Hurban (?), Ambassador from Czechoslovakia at a reception celebrating International Women's Day at the home of Joseph E. Davies, former United States Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Lady Sansom, Madame Bonnet, Madame Gromyko, Madame Wei Tao-Ming, Mrs. Joseph E. Davies - a receiving line at a reception celebrating International Women's Day at the home of Joseph E. Davies, former United States Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Mrs. Joseph E. Davies and Mr. Andrei Gromyko, Ambassador from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at a reception celebrating International Women's Day at the home of Joseph E. Davies, former United States Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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A black and white photo of two men and a woman. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of women standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Mrs. A. Slionsaremko, wife of First Secretary of Russian Embassy, and Senator and Mrs. Brien McMahon at a reception celebrating International Women's Day at the home of Joseph E. Davies, former United States Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.

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district of columbia washington dc nitrate negatives slionsaremko wife secretary first secretary russian embassy russian embassy senator brien mcmahon brien mcmahon reception international women international women home joseph joseph e davies ambassador union soviet socialist republics female portrait woman photograph six wise men farm security administration ussr wwii ww 2 allies lend lease soviet union united states ambassador diplomacy politics and government 1940 s world war two second world war world war 2 library of congress
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01/01/1945
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Lakey, J. Sherrel, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States ,  38.90719, -77.03687
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Left to right: Admiral W.H. Standley, United States Ambassador to Russia; Mr. Alexander Kirk, United States Minister to Egypt; Colonel T.S. Riggs (representing General Maxwell). Photograph taken at airport near Cairo as Mr. Kirk and Colonel Riggs saw Admiral Standley take-off for America. Photograph taken Tuesday, October 13, 1942

Brown, Joseph E. - Folder 1 of 2

Lardy dah quickstep - Public domain American sheet music, 1883

Klishevo collective farm, near Moscow, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). A group of women collective farmers replace the men who have left for the front

Commission sent by Secy. of Labor Davis to the Hawaiian Islands to investigate labor problems and to report on advisability of allowing Chinese Labor to enter the Islands as requested by Hawaiian govt. First row, left to right: L.E. Sheppard, Secy. Davis, O.R. Hartwig, and Hywel Davies. Standing: John Doulin and Fred Keightly

Stakhanovite woman farmer sheafing winter barley in Turkmenistan in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Brown, Joseph E. - Folder 2 of 2

Receives French decoration. Former Secretary of State Kellogg received the cross of the French Legion of Honor yesterday. In the group, left to right are: Jules Henry, First Secretary of the French Embassy, Paul Claudel, the French Ambassador, Frank B. Kellogg and Secretary of State Stimson

Woman assistant station master at Omak station in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Maudeen Hood, age nineteen, removing fat from pork. She used to do housework, and her husband is in the United States Army

Electrified candelabra, Russian Embassy, Washington D.C.

Davies & Co. to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 12, 1861 (Sends unfermented bread)

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district of columbia washington dc nitrate negatives slionsaremko wife secretary first secretary russian embassy russian embassy senator brien mcmahon brien mcmahon reception international women international women home joseph joseph e davies ambassador union soviet socialist republics female portrait woman photograph six wise men farm security administration ussr wwii ww 2 allies lend lease soviet union united states ambassador diplomacy politics and government 1940 s world war two second world war world war 2 library of congress