POST-WAR ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPH OF WINSTON CHURCHILL

"Churchill En-Route to Italy"

1949

Wide World Photos [New York]

(9 x 7 1/8 inches) Black & white gelatin print.

Item Number: 213035

$500.00

Description

Typed paper caption on verso reads:
“Winston Churchill, without a cigar in sight, turns and beams at friends at Biggin Hill Airfield, England, July 25, prior to boarding a chartered plane for a flight to Italy. The British wartime Prime Minister is on a private trip to Italy.”

The photograph is in very good condition with very light creasing. The verso is ink-stamped: “Wide World Photos” and “Associated Press.”