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Opening of the Potsdam Conference

63-1455-29
Accession Number
63-1455-29
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348307289
Keywords
Armed forces officers
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
Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967
Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977
Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Description
Opening session of the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. President Harry S. Truman is seated foreground (back to camera). Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin is at right. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is at left. Secretary of State James Byrnes is seated to the right of President Truman. Admiral William Leahy is seated two to the right of President Truman. British foreign minister Anthony Eden is to the left of Winston Churchill. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov is to the left of Prime Minister Stalin. From Potsdam album, 1945.
Date(s)
July 17, 1945