PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART WORK, , 1945-1984

Documents events and personalities associated with the IADF, including conferences, meetings, dinners, and protests, both in New York and in Latin America. Includes photographs of important figures associated with the IADF, such as Rómulo Betancourt, Eduardo Santos, José Figueres, Eduardo Frei, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, and Adolf Berle. The majority are black and white, 8 x 10 photographs, but the series also includes smaller sizes, color snapshots, contact sheets, and photographic plates used in printing Hemispherica.

Of particular interest are extensive documentation of the Havana conference of 1950 and the Maracay conference of 1960. Also of interest are photographs of a demonstration against the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, held in New York in 1958. Of interest is an oversize composite portrait, mounted on board, of three Venezuelan leaders, Rómulo Betancourt, Rómulo Gallegos, and Raúl Leoni, circa 1945.

Also includes photographs of atrocities in Argentina, Nicaragua, and Peru, which were used to publicize the situations in these countries; and photographs of other groups with which the IADF worked, such as the International League for Human Rights and Freedom House.

Oversize items stored separately include seven portraits.

See also: newspaper box 84.

[ SeeAppendix B for Photography List]