Boston - Winston Churchill, in an adress [sic] at the M.I.T. Mid-Century Convocation at Boston Garden, smiled wryly when he commended Truman for his forecasting ability on the election – Antique Print
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(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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This rare historic photograph captures Boston - Winston Churchill, in an adress [sic] at the M.I.T. Mid-Century Convocation at Boston Garden, smiled wryly when he commended Truman for his forecasting ability on the election in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Boston - Winston Churchill, in an adress [sic] at the M.I.T. Mid-Century Convocation at Boston Garden, smiled wryly when he commended Truman for his forecasting ability on the election
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Winston Churchill, then out of office in Britain, is caught mid-expression at Boston Garden, where he spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Mid-Century Convocation in 1949. According to the caption, he smiled wryly as he praised Harry Truman's forecasting on the 1948 election, a jab at the many commentators who had expected Truman to lose. The occasion drew attention because Churchill was a former wartime prime minister and a leading Cold War voice, and press photographers working in Boston recorded his visit in detail.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1949 |
| Subjects | Churchill, Winston,--1874-1965--Public appearances--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,251 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184320 |
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