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[Woman looking through sextant on board the expedition vessel, George W. Elder, with two men and Capt. Peter Doran during Harriman expedition to Alaska, 1899] / Curtis.

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61279 U.S. Copyright Office.

Copyright by Edward H. Harriman.

No. X417.

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.

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harriman alaska expedition 1899 expeditions and surveys alaska photographic prints kasaan alaska woman sextant board expedition vessel expedition vessel george elder men two men peter doran peter doran harriman harriman expedition curtis 1900 s commoners six wise men captain 19th century diplomacy politics and government history of alaska alaska free images alaska photographs lot 4841 edward s curtis photo ultra high resolution high resolution united states history library of congress group of people
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1899
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Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer
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Kasaan (Alaska) ,  55.53889, -132.40083
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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Captain Mary demonstrating the use of the sextant in locating one's position by the stars

[Two men with guns in foreground, pond and mountain in background, taken during the Harriman Alaska Expedition, 1899]

Washington, D.C. Elder Kelsey, Pastor of the Church of God in Christ

Elder Brewster's chair. 19th Century Sterescope card. Plymouth, MA.

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Bossard. Célestin. 33 ans, né le 5/3/61 à Gonbretière (Vendée). Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94

White House conference on unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Sept. 24. Holding his first press conference today, John D. Biggers, Administrator of the Unemployment Census, announced that he had called a conference at the White House on Monday to formulate plans for the first unemployment census ever conducted in the United States. Included among those invited to the meeting were John L. Lewis, CIO head; William Green, A.F. of L. President; George H. Davis, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council; and Leaders of Farm and Cooperative Groups.

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Philip J. McCook, Julia Arthur, Mrs. O. Harriman, General Graves, E.F. Albee, Sgt. Woodfill, (and wife), and Adm. Glennon

Edward S. Curtis - [Russian cemetery, Alaska. Wooden tombs]

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harriman alaska expedition 1899 expeditions and surveys alaska photographic prints kasaan alaska woman sextant board expedition vessel expedition vessel george elder men two men peter doran peter doran harriman harriman expedition curtis 1900 s commoners six wise men captain 19th century diplomacy politics and government history of alaska alaska free images alaska photographs lot 4841 edward s curtis photo ultra high resolution high resolution united states history library of congress group of people