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Call Number:

PH-00148

Collection Name:

Nikita Khrushchev U.S. Visit Photography Collection

Creator:

unidentified photographer

No. of Items:

58 items

Span Dates:

1956

Description:

The collection consists of 58 gelatin silver prints of Nikita Krushchev’s 1956 state visit to the United Nations and his tour of the mid-west and California. Depicted are U.S. dignitaries, the United Nations, crowds gathered to see Khrushchev at agricultural and factory sites, and parades. The photographs were made by an unidentified photographer(s), who most likely was an official U.S. State Department photographer.

Accession No(s):

977:0004:0001-0058

Location(s):

Khrushchev, N., Box (977:0004:0001-0059)
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