Price
$45.00
Condition
used
Product Condition
Very good
Size
8" x 10"
Harry Truman Type 1 Abbie Rowe Photo Nov. 7 1951 Oval Office Arms Reduction Address.
Original vintage Type 1 press photograph by famed White House photographer Abbie Rowe, showing President Harry S. Truman seated at his Oval Office desk on November 7, 1951, as photographers and news cameramen gather during his nationally broadcast address on international arms reduction.
A remarkable Cold War-era White House image, the photograph captures Truman surrounded by media equipment, spotlights, cameras, and microphones as he delivers a message tied to one of the defining issues of the early atomic age. Few Oval Office photographs display this level of behind-the-scenes press activity.
Reverse bears period credit stamp reading:
“Photo by Abbie Rowe — Courtesy National Park Service”
and dated and hand numbered.
An outstanding original presidential historical photograph combining Truman, the Oval Office, Cold War diplomacy, and classic mid-century photojournalism.
.Original, of course.
Delivered during heightened Cold War tensions, Truman’s November 7, 1951 address focused on international arms reduction at a time when nuclear weapons and East-West rivalry dominated world affairs. This image preserves the exact setting from which the President addressed the nation.
$45.00
used
Very good
8" x 10"