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The Big Three with their advisors prior to opening of meetings of the Potsdam Conference

63-1453-7
Accession Number
63-1453-7
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348307141
Keywords
Ambassadors
Cabinet officers
Naval officers
Potsdam Conference, 1945
Presidents
Prime ministers
United States-Soviet relations
HST Keywords
Potsdam - Conference area; Truman - Potsdam - Conference area
People Pictured
Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-1973
Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Davies, Joseph Edward, 1876-1958
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Union Prime Minister Josef Stalin and their advisors are seated around the round conference table prior to the opening of one of the Potsdam Conference meetings in Potsdam, Germany. President Truman has his back to the camera; Prime Minister Stalin is on the right side of the photograph; Prime Minister Churchill is on the left side; they are in the chairs with more ornamentation on the backs. Ambassador Joseph Davies and interpreter Charles Bohlen are seated to the left of President Truman in the photograph; Secretary of State James Byrnes and Admiral William Leahy are seated to the right of President Truman. From the album, number 2: "President Truman's Trip to Potsdam."
Date(s)
July 25, 1945