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Subject: [Leica] IMG: United Nations, 1946
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:00:48 +0100
References: <f215075fc1081255d33c70c7ac5618e5.squirrel@mail.threshinc.com>

Nice!

Thanks for sharing
Lluis

El 06/12/2011, a las 23:50, Peter Klein escribi?:

> My mother-in-law, Ada (right, with pencil) translating at the United
> Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1946.
>
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/6468086051/in/photostream>
>
> Background: Just before she finished University in Kiev, Ada was
> essentially drafted to serve as a translator/interpreter for Ukraine's
> delegation to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) at a
> conference on postwar reconstruction. She thought she was going for a
> couple of weeks. It turned out she was abroad for a year, and worked  
> in
> Geneva, Paris and New York. Once back in the USSR, she was not  
> permitted
> to travel abroad again until the family emigrated to the U.S. in 1979.
>
> Scanned from an 18x24.5 cm print. Camera unknown. I've done a bit of  
> curve
> adjustment, burning in the flare at right, and repair of the worst  
> spots
> and scratches. Believe me, the irony of my retouching a Soviet  
> photograph
> is not lost on me   :-)
>
> --Peter
>
>
>
>
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