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Mrs. Roosevelt visits Pakistan – Antique Wall Art

Mrs. Roosevelt visits Pakistan — historic photograph
Mrs. Roosevelt visits Pakistan. 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 Mrs. Roosevelt visits Pakistan in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Karachi, then the capital of the newly independent Pakistan, is the setting for this 1952 photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt during her trip through South Asia. Pakistan had gained independence in 1947, and Karachi was still its seat of government, so the visit placed a prominent American in a young nation's most important city. Roosevelt, the widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was by then a leading figure in international affairs. She had chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Her travels in these years often combined diplomacy with close attention to ordinary people's lives.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1952 Feb 25.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Eleanor,--1884-1962--Journeys--Pakistan--Karachi.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,266 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-189643

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