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Kate Carew self-portrait

Mary Williams (1869 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was a caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World, providing illustrated celebrity interviews. Was also published in The Tatler in the UK. Self-portrait of herself in caricature with sketch book in hand.
1920

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Marshall Plan Convention 1948

US Secretary of State George C. Marshall (L, 1880-1959) is pictured during a reception at London US embassy on November 02, 1948 with (L to R) Mrs Churchill, wife of US Ambassador in Great Britain Mrs Lewis Douglas, Mrs James Douglas, US Ambassador in Great Britain Lewis Douglas, Miss Sharman Douglas, James Douglas, Mrs George Marshall and former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
After the conference in Moscow with British, French, and Soviet counterparts in March-April 1947, US Secretary of State George C. Marshall had observed the growing economic collapse of Europe and the obvious intent of Soviet Russia to benefit from that collapse. He had returned to Washington thinking that the best way to avoid this was to prevent Europe's economic, social, and political deterioration by creating a European program with massive assistance from the United States. One year later, in April 1948, President Truman, a Democratic president, signed the Foreign Assistance Act, passed by a Republican controlled Congress, to establish what became known as the Marshall Plan. / AFP PHOTO / RENE HELIER

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Prince Philip of Greece & Milford Havens at Maidenhead

Celebrities at the Maidenhead Fishery Club in 1931. From left, the Marchioness of Milford Haven, formerly Countess Nada Torby, daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, her daughter, Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, the Marquess of Milford Haven (formerly Prince George of Battenberg), Prince Philip of Greece (now Duke of Edinburgh), the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, formerly Princess Victoria of Hesse (Princess Louis of Battenberg), daughter of Princess Alice and granddaughter of Queen Victoria. On the right is the Count de Torby, Nada's brother Michael. Prince Philip would regularly spend school holidays with the Milford Havens - George was his uncle on his mother's side and the dowager Marchioness his grandmother. Date: 1931

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