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Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina – Historic Print

Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina — historic photograph
Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina

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Eleanor Roosevelt sits beside Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in this 1943 photograph, a meeting that captured the wartime partnership between an American first lady and a monarch in exile. Wilhelmina had led the Dutch government from London after the German invasion of May 1940, and she spent much of the war broadcasting messages of resistance to her occupied homeland. Mrs. Roosevelt, who traveled widely on behalf of the war effort, was a frequent visitor to Allied figures and wartime causes. The picture offers a useful glimpse of how the two women, both prominent public figures, shared the stage of the home front and the wider struggle against the Axis.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1943 Nov. 8.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,229 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130244

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