Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 373

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(WORLD WAR II.) The Quebec Conference. 2 volumes. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered leatherette post binders, light wear; contents clean. The first volume entitled "The Quebec Conference, August 1943," containing 32 portraits and views, and the second entitled "The Quebec Conference, September 1944" containing 40 portraits and views. Silver prints, each approximately 200 x 250 mm, with typewritten caption labels affixed to the mounts of most prints in second album. Quebec, 1943-1944
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an important pair of albums. The first chronicles secret conferences between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, General George Marshall, and other officials during the summer before the Allied Normandy campaign. At these meetings, Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Quebec Agreement to coordinate their nations' burgeoning nuclear weapons research. The meetings were held at the Citadelle and the Château Frontenac in Quebec City. Most of the images in this album appear to depict meetings of strategic importance; none are captioned.

The second album shows the Allied leaders meeting with the Canadian and British military a year later. In addition, the wives of Roosevelt, Churchill, and King also make an appearance. Featured are press conferences, group portraits, radio broadcasts, visits to barracks, a celebratory banquet, and generally upbeat, informal shots of the Allied leaders and their military counterparts; virtually all are captioned. This conference featured the preliminary negotiations for U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau's plan to partition Germany.

Apparently, only a very limited number of copies of the albums were issued. This is the only set we are aware of outside of governmental archives. It was previously sold to the present consignor at a Swann Galleries sale, 4 April 1995, lot 589.