Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 15 1/2 ins / Tues Starred A9; center left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING / 1 SEP 3 PM 3:54; center left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: [star] STAR [star] / 2nd Edition / SEP 4 1 [illegible]; by unknown hand, center left in red pencil inverted: [con]ference; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink partially visible and perpendicular; center right printed in black ink on applied paper: 205540 (EXTENSION OF 205400) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / 'BIG THREE' GATHERS AT YALTA / MEETING ON THE GROUNDS OF THE LIVADIA / PALACE, YALTA, [circled in black ink] IN THE CRIMEA, FOR THEIR IMPORT- / ANT CONFERENCES ARE, LEFT TO RIGHT: (SEATED) / PRIME MINSTER CHURCHILL, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT / AND MARSHAL STALIN; [circled in black ink] (STANDING) LORD LEATHERS, / ANTHONY EDEN, EDWARD R. STETTINIUS, JR., SIR / ALEXANDER CADOGAN, VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV, AND / AVERILL HARRIMAN. THIS IS A BRITISH OFFICIAL / PHOTO. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / M/MO 2-16-45 920 LON BOPL / W LIST (NYWS OUT) 89; by unknown hand, lower left in blue ink inverted: JOSEPH / STALIN [circled] / YALTA [underlined]; lower left in red pencil on applied paper inveted: 1-