Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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December 26
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1941 Winston Churchill addressed a joint meeting of the US Congress, asking of Germany and Japan, "What kind of people do they think we are?" Churchill initiated the Special Operations Executive (SOE) under Hugh Dalton's Ministry of Economic Warfare, which established, conducted and fostered covert, subversive and partisan operations in occupied territories with notable success; and also the Commandos which established the pattern for most of the world's current Special Forces. The Russians referred to him as the "British Bulldog".
In 1928 Johnny Weissmuller announced his retirement from amateur swimming. He was a Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo.
SUPERB WARTIME PORTRAIT OF CHURCHILL BY STONEMAN
CHURCHILL (Sir Winston Spencer, 1874-1965, Prime Minister)
Superb portrait photo by Walter Stoneman, signed and dated on the mount, showing him half length seated, looking directly into the camera with his hand resting on some papers, 5” x 4½” in mount 7½” x 5”, no place, 1944
33724
WEISSMULLER (Johnny, 1904-1984, American Actor, original ‘Tarzan’)
Postcard photo signed and inscribed “Regards Molly”, showing him full length as Tarzan, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, ca. 1940
9494
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