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Known as "Maine's ambassador of goodwill," young Samantha was a schoolgirl, peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous in the Cold War era. She wrote a book about her visit to the Soviet Union and co-starred in the television series "Lime Street" before her death at the age of 13 in a plane crash near Lewiston, Maine.

Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11).

Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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