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Churchill and the Great Republic
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INTRODUCTION
TIMELINE
THEMES
  Forebears and Family
Warrior for Empire
Visits to America
American Presidents
The Communicator
The Politician
World War II
Cold Warrior
The Long Sunset
OBJECTS
Objects
Thomas Starling. Drawings of annual guild days of Norwich, England, ca. 1706
John Churchill to Sarah Churchill, May 24, 1706
Adriaen van der Werff. Ritratto del duca Giovanni de Marlborough
Lord Randolph Churchill to Miss Jennette Jerome, August 14, 1873
Studio portrait of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, ca. 1874
Winston Churchill, ca. 1880
"Spy" [Leslie Ward]. A Younger Son. From "The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day," vol. XII, 1880
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, May 1882
School report for Winston Churchill issued by St. George's School, Ascot, November 1883
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, June 12, 1887
Randolph Churchill, ca. 1888
Portrait of Lady Randolph Churchill with her two sons, 1889
Winston During Early Years, 1889
Lord Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, August 21, 1894
Lord Randolph Churchill, ca. 1894
Winston Churchill to Jack Churchill, November 15, 1895
Jennie Jerome Churchill to Moreton Frewen, September 5, 1898
Winston Churchill to the Duke of Marlborough, September 29, 1898
Boer "Wanted" poster in Dutch, with translation
Winston Churchill to the Duke of Marlborough, January 24, 1899
Major James B. Pond to Mrs. Cornwallis West, November 2, 1900
"Spy" [Leslie Ward]. Winston. From "The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day," vol. XXXII, 1900
J. E. Purdy. Winston Churchill, 1900
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, December 21, 1900
Winston Churchill, ca. 1900
Jennie Jerome Churchill to Helen Mills Reid, January 8, 1900
Winston Churchill. "Operations in Natal," [London] Morning Post, March 1, 1900
"Lord Randolph Churchill's Brilliant Son," [London] Sunday Telegraph, February 18, 1900
John Spencer Churchill to Clara Jerome Frewen, March 27, 1900
South African Light Horse, 1900
"Lady Randolph Churchill's Engagement," [Philadelphia] Public Ledger, July 21, 1900
Winston Churchill addressing Unionist Party meeting, August 10, 1901
Winston Churchill to Clementine Hozier, August 12, 1908
Edward Tennyson Reed. Parliamentary ‘Liberty Men' Return to H.M.S. ‘Loquacity,' 1908
Clementine Hozier to Winston Churchill, August 12, 1908
Winston Churchill and Clementine Hozier, 1908
Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., May 23, 1908
Winston Churchill. Speech on the budget, 1909
Winston Churchill to The Duke of Marlborough, December 7, 1909
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, September 15, 1909
Winston Churchill and Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1909
Silk top hat
Winston Churchill to the Duke of Marlborough, November 6, 1912
Henry Mayo Bateman. Winston Churchill Smiles at the Camera, ca. 1912
Winston Churchill to Oswald Frewen, April 6, 1913
Winston Churchill to Admiral Lord Fisher, April 8, 1915
Orilux trench torch, 1915
Winston Churchill to the Dardanelles Committee, October 4, 1915
Photograph of ANZAC Beach, Gallipoli Peninsula
John Spencer Churchill to the Duke of Marlborough, July 3, 1915
Anonymous. Winston Churchill in Blenheim Palace, 1916
Winston Churchill to the Duke of Marlborough, January 12, 1916
Winston Churchill to the Duke of Marlborough, January 22, 1916
Shane Leslie to Lady Randolph Churchill, August 8, 1917
Winston Churchill. "Will America Fail Us?," November 30, 1919
Winston Churchill to William S. Sims, March 31, 1919
Winston Churchill, 1919
H.E.C. Robinson. Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus
Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence, 1921
Winston S. Churchill. The World Crisis, vol. 5
Underwood & Underwood. Winston Churchill, 1924
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, September 29, 1929
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, September 18, 1929
Winston Churchill. Flowers in a Green Vase, ca. 1930s
Professor Frederick Lindemann to Winston Churchill, December 30, 1931
Winston Churchill to Professor Frederick Lindemann, December 24, 1931
Robert Boothby to Winston Churchill, January 22, 1932
Winston Churchill. "New York Misadventure." Daily Mail, January 5, 1932
"Seppla" [Josef Plank], Churchill as an octopus, between 1935 and 1943
"Seppla" [Josef Plank]. Axis bombs severing F.D.R. & Churchill's "hands across the sea," between 1935 and 1943
Winston Churchill to Bernard Baruch, January 1, 1937
Winston Churchill. Broadcast to the United States, October 16, 1938
Cartoon from Punch Magazine, November 2, 1938
Page from speaking notes for Churchill's broadcast to the United States, October 16, 1938
Rollin Kirby. Heavy Firing Heard on the Western Front, 1939
Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain, October 1, 1939
Winston Churchill to Franklin Roosevelt, October 6, 1939
Citizens National Keep America Out of War Committee, September 16, 1939
Cotton bow-tie
Extract from draft of "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill, June 1940
Winston Churchill. "Finest Hour" speech, June 1940
Winston Churchill, undated
Engagements card, September 1940
Ministry of Information. "Bulletin," November 22, 1940
Associated Press. Churchill Dons Helmet, 1940
Herbert Block. Herblock's Own History of the Year-The Worlds of 1940, ca. 1940
Churchill Inspects Coast Defenses, 1940
Winston Churchill, 1941
Herbert Block. "Working On Him," 1941
Winston Churchill. Broadcast speech, February 9, 1941
Extract from speaking notes for broadcast by Winston Churchill, February 9, 1941
W. Averell Harriman to Winston Churchill, April 15, 1941
Clementine Churchill to W. Averell Harriman, April 15, 1941
Winston Churchill. Address before U.S. Congress, 1941
Winston Churchill addressing U.S. Congress, December 26, 1941
Extract from notes for Winston Churchill's address to U.S. Congress, December 26, 1941
Mr. Churchill's Visit to America: On Board H.M.S. "Duke of York," 1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, January 20, 1941
Winston Churchill to Anthony Eden, December 10, 1941
Mary Churchill to W. Averell Harriman, November 27, 1941
Winston Churchill to W. Averell Harriman, November 27, 1941
W. Averell Harriman, October 15, 1941
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Proposed declaration, August 12, 1941
Religious Services at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, August 10, 1941
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, August 9, 1941
The Prime Minister's Return Journey Across the Atlantic, August, 1941
King George VI to Winston Churchill, July 25, 1941
British War Cabinet record of a meeting, July 24, 1941
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, July, 1941
Prime Minister Sees Flying Fortresses, June 6, 1941
Winston Churchill to W. Averell Harriman, May 20, 1941
United States Office of Strategic Services. Fifty-inch military globe
Churchill landing in Moscow
President Roosevelt and his identical globe, 1942
Winston Churchill with Harry Hopkins, 1942
"Churchill im Weissen Haus" [Churchill at the White House], no date
Chicago Daily Tribune. "America-the Real Center of the World Today," 1942
Charles de Gaulle to Pamela Digby Churchill, January 10, 1942
Harry Hopkins to Winston Churchill, November 29, 1942
Acme. A Chip Off the Old Block, 1942
President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, April 3, 1942
President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins for transmission to Winston Churchill, April 12, 1942
Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks...through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral..., 1942
Winston Churchill to Sir Stafford Cripps, April 9, 1942
George Scarbo. "We Want Service!," no date
Anonymous note to Winston Churchill, with envelope, postmarked June 21, 1942
Clementine Churchill to W. Averell Harriman, June 30, 1942
Winston Churchill to John Dill for George Marshall, August 1, 1942
Winston Churchill and W. Averell Harriman, August 12, 1942
Edward Sorel. First Encounters: Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill, 1991
Office of War Information. Churchill and Stalin in Moscow, 1942
Office of War Information. B-24 Liberator, 1942
Winston Churchill and W. Averell Harriman, August 16, 1942
Winston Churchill. "The Bright Gleam of Victory," 1942
Prime Minister Churchill with the globe presented to him by the United States War Department, Christmas 1942
Associated Press. Churchill At Work on the War Again, 1943
Bank of England currency note
U.S. Army Signal Corps. Casablanca Conference, 1943
Richard Edes Harrison. "The Not-So-Soft Underside," 1943
W. Averell Harriman, May 6, 1943
Winston Churchill addressing joint session of Congress, 1943
Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, July 10, 1943
Associated Press. Churchills with a British Symbol, 1943
Acme Newspictures. The Churchills Meet Some WAC's, 1943
Winston Churchill to Jacob Devers, October 11, 1943
U.S. Army Signal Corps. Conference of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshal Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill . . . , 1943.
Teheran Conference commemorative postcards, 1943
Summary of the third regular session of the Teheran Meeting, November 30, 1943
Autographed card, 1943
W. Averell Harriman to Franklin Roosevelt, October 11, 1944
Winston Churchill to Franklin Roosevelt, August 23, 1944
Winston Churchill to Anthony Eden, July 7, 1944
Winston Churchill to Anthony Eden, July 11, 1944
George S. Patton. Diary entry, May 1, 1944
Associated Press. A Serious Inspection, 1944
Twelfth Army Group. Situation - 2400 HRS 6 JUNE 1944 HQ. FUSAG, 1944
Dwight David Eisenhower. "Order of the Day," June 6, 1944
Robert Sargent. Taxis to Hell-and Back, 1944
U.S. Maritime Commission. Bird's-eye view of landing craft, barrage balloons, and allied troops landing in Normandy, France on D-Day, 1944
Admiral Bertram Ramsay to Winston Churchill, May 16, 1944
George McDonald to Carl Spaatz. June 21, 1944
Cartoon showing D-Day invasion of France by British troops in a parody of the Bayeux Tapestry, 1944
Justin Murray. Winston Churchill (Befriendus Leaselendus), ca.1945
Manuscript map, 1945
Memorandum of conversation, Yalta Conference, February 4, 1945
Crimean Conference, 1945
Churchill on the Siegfried Line, 1945
Clementine Churchill to W. Averell Harriman, April 13, 1945
Winston Churchill to President Harry S Truman, May 9, 1945
Associated Press. Churchills Leave Thanksgiving Service, 1945
Harry Truman and Winston Churchill, 1945
Daniel Bishop. Dropping the Pilot, 1945
Acme Radiophoto. The Churchills Evacuate, 1945
Iron Curtain Speech
Acme. Churchills Arrive in U.S. for Vacation, 1946
Associated Press. Rain-spattered Churchill Gazes at Statue, 1946
Winston Churchill. Speech to the Virginia General Assembly, March 8, 1946
Acme Telephoto. On the Campus Grounds, 1946
Associated Press. Churchill Places Wreath on Grave, 1946
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, 1946
President Harry S Truman to Winston Churchill, July 10, 1948
Za Prochnyi mir! Protiv Podzhigatelei Novoi Voiny! [For a stable peace! Against those who would ignite a new war], 1949
Acme. Old Friends Get Together, 1951
Cigar box made from Kauri wood inlaid with Pukatea
Edwin Marcus. New Year Callers, 1952
United Press. "Irish Minute Men" Picket Churchill, 1953
Associated Press. A Flower for the President, 1953
Toni Frissell. Winston Churchill Observes the Ceremony of Trooping the Color, 1953
United Press. Hail and Farewell, 1953
Sir Winston Churchill to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, November 12, 1953
Toni Frissell. Winston, Randolph, and Winston Churchill, 1953
Associated Press. Meeting of Three Old Friends, 1953
Winston S. Churchill. The Second World War, vol. 3
President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Sir Winston Churchill, March 22, 1955
United Press. Churchill Bows Out, 1955
Sir Winston Churchill to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 1955
Edwin Marcus. Co-pilots, 1955
Winston Churchill to Henry R. Luce, December 6, 1956
President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Sir Winston Churchill, May 12, 1958
Winston S. Churchill. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, vol. 4
President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Sir Winston Churchill, May 26, 1959
Briton Hadden and Carol to Sir Winston Churchill, May 1959
Ed Ford. Churchill & Baruch Talk in Car in Front of Baruch's Home, 1961
President John F. Kennedy to Sir Winston Churchill, July 6, 1962
The Order of Service for the Funeral of The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill K.G., O.M., C.H., 1965
Bill Mauldin. Lion shedding a tear, 1965
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