WORLD WAR II]. NIMITZ, Chester W., Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy . Photograph inscribed and signed two times ("C.W. Nimitz") TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, n.d. [ca. 1945?]. 11 x 13¾ in.), in black wood frame, inscription slightly pale. THE END OF WORLD WAR II: AN EXCEPTIONAL INSCRIPTION One of the famous series of photographs depicting the famous ceremony on the deck of the U.S.S. Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945, at which the U.S. and its Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. In the photo, Nimitz is shone seated at the large desk, flanked by a large group of high-ranking American officers. Pen in hand, he is in the act of signing the surrender treaty as U.S. representative. On the white area of the treaty, he has signed in ink: "C.W. Nimitz U.S. Representative." Beneath, in the white margin of the photograph, Nimitz writes: "To Eleanor Roosevelt -- I do not know of any family in our nation that made heavier contributions to winning World War II than the Roosevelts. C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral." Provenance : Eleanor Roosevelt, hung for many years at Val-Kill Cottage.
WORLD WAR II]. NIMITZ, Chester W., Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy . Photograph inscribed and signed two times ("C.W. Nimitz") TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, n.d. [ca. 1945?]. 11 x 13¾ in.), in black wood frame, inscription slightly pale. THE END OF WORLD WAR II: AN EXCEPTIONAL INSCRIPTION One of the famous series of photographs depicting the famous ceremony on the deck of the U.S.S. Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945, at which the U.S. and its Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. In the photo, Nimitz is shone seated at the large desk, flanked by a large group of high-ranking American officers. Pen in hand, he is in the act of signing the surrender treaty as U.S. representative. On the white area of the treaty, he has signed in ink: "C.W. Nimitz U.S. Representative." Beneath, in the white margin of the photograph, Nimitz writes: "To Eleanor Roosevelt -- I do not know of any family in our nation that made heavier contributions to winning World War II than the Roosevelts. C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral." Provenance : Eleanor Roosevelt, hung for many years at Val-Kill Cottage.
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