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International News Photos [Nixon Gets Bid to Pan American Union Event]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09677.39 Author/Creator: International News Photos Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: 30 September 1957 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 17.7 x 23.1 cm. Order a Copy

One Wire photograph released by International News Photos dated September 30, 1957. Shows then Vice President Richard Nixon and three ladies. One lady is handing Nixon a card. The attached press release the ladies pictured are Maria Laura Lobo, Margarita Sierra, and Maria Cristina Yadarola. The note they have handed Nixon is an invitation to a dinner dance on October 11 at the Pan American Union. The photo is stamped on the back with the date and International News Photos information.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Lobo, Maria Laura, fl. 1957
Sierra, Margarita, fl. 1957
Yadarola, Maria Cristina, fl. 1957

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