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President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Collection of Historic Press Photographs from World War II - 9 large press photographs documenting historic moments in the life of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt - most from the period of World War II. All photographs are captioned on the reverse by the photographic agencies that took them. Photographs: 1. ”Photograph from the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first presidential inauguration. Roosevelt and Hoover ride to the Capitol. The outgoing and incoming leaders of the nation ride side by side from the White House to the Capitol, where Roosevelt takes the oath of office.” The two were photographed as they departed the Executive Mansion. The photograph documents the traditional moment when the outgoing president (Herbert Hoover) and the president-elect (Franklin D. Roosevelt) ride together in an open automobile from the White House to Capitol Hill for the inauguration ceremony. Photographed on Presidential Inauguration Day - March 4, 1933. Photograph: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO. 2. ”U.S. President declares war on the aggressors. With grim determination, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs (on December 8) the declaration of war against Japan, after the Japanese launched a surprise attack on American installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.” President Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan on the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor (the famous ”Day of Infamy” speech). This marked the historic turning point at which American policy shifted from isolationism to full and decisive involvement in World War II. Photograph: USIS (United States Information Service), Paris. 3. ”Seated in his automobile, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt extends a warm handshake of greeting to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. At the Washington airport, upon Secretary Hull's return from the Allied Conference in Moscow, November 1943.” Together with representatives of Britain, the Soviet Union, and China, Mr. Hull took part in discussions in Moscow on measures to strengthen cooperation among the four powers in the conduct of the war. This was one of the crucial diplomatic events of the war. Cordell Hull flew to Moscow to meet with the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Britain (and also signed the Four-Power Declaration, which included China) at a conference that laid the foundations for military and political cooperation among the powers and became a cornerstone in the future establishment of the United Nations (UN) - a project led by Cordell Hull and for which he was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 4. President Roosevelt signing the Philippine Independence Act in 1934, providing for independence in 1946. The Act was signed by President Roosevelt on March 24, 1934, and stipulated that the Philippines (which had until then been a territory under American control since 1898) would receive the status of an autonomous commonwealth for a 10-year transitional period, at the conclusion of which it would attain full independence. Although during those ten years the Philippines was occupied by Japan during World War II, the United States honored its commitment under the Act and granted the Philippines full independence on July 4, 1946. On the reverse of the photograph is a USIS - SERVICES AMÉRICAINS D'INFORMATION (United States Information Service in France) stamp. 5. ”President Franklin D. Roosevelt customarily spent Christmas with his family. Here he is, in 1939, photographed with two of his grandchildren: Franklin D. [Roosevelt III] (left) and John Boettiger Jr.” This photograph was taken in December 1939, when Europe was already engulfed in World War II, while the United States still maintained its neutrality. Warm family photographs of this kind were widely distributed by the presidential press office to convey stability, warmth, and family values to the nation and the world. 6. ”President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Thanksgiving celebration at the treatment center in Warm Springs, Georgia, alongside his wife Eleanor Roosevelt.” The photograph documents Roosevelt's traditional meal at Warm Springs - the therapeutic resort where he established the national foundation for the treatment of infantile paralysis after he himself was stricken with polio in 1921. The site served as his vacation and rehabilitation residence. Photograph: LONDON OWI (the U.S. Office of War Information in London) and a USIS stamp from Paris. 7. Portrait photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ”former” President of the United States, in his later years. Photograph: CENTRE CULTUREL AMÉRICAIN - Reproduction autorisée - distributed by the U.S. diplomatic and cultural information services in France. 8. ”Roosevelt et sa femme” - Roosevelt and his wife riding in an open automobile - on the reverse is the purple stamp of the renowned French photographic archive H. ROGER-VIOLLET - the Roger-Viollet agency, founded in Paris in 1938. 9.