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Roosevelt bids new U.S. ambassador to Russia goodbye – Historic Print

Roosevelt bids new U.S. ambassador to Russia goodbye — historic photograph
Roosevelt bids new U.S. ambassador to Russia goodbye. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Roosevelt bids new U.S. ambassador to Russia goodbye in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Roosevelt bids new U.S. ambassador to Russia goodbye

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Roosevelt is shown saying goodbye to William C. Bullitt, the diplomat chosen as the first United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. The send-off came in 1933, shortly after Washington established formal relations with Moscow, ending more than a decade of nonrecognition. Bullitt, a Philadelphian who had been a journalist and an adviser to Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, took on a post that proved difficult, since relations with Stalin's government were often strained. The photograph captures a public moment in a diplomatic shift with lasting weight.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1933
SubjectsBullitt, William C.--(William Christian),--1891-1967. Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191094

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