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6 folders

Scope and content:

This series consists of photographs of Jaqua, her family, friends, and associates, from the period 1941-1948. The materials include a series of photographs taken of Jaqua in June 1941, just prior to her departure for England; photographs of the Sinclair family (Lord Pendland); and a large series of photographs of the Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital in Salisbury. The materials also include photographs of friends and colleagues during Jaqua's time in London, Algiers, and Caserta, Italy, among them informal photographs of Generals Andrews and Devers, to whom she reported; several snapshots of her close friend, Stephen Stackpole, Harvard Class of 1933, who later had a distinguished career with the Carnegie Corporation; and a series of photographs of John Hay "Jock" Whitney, then with the OSS, playing backgammon with friends in his cabin at Caserta. The series includes a print of Margaret Bourke-White's photograph of Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff (including Jaqua) published in Life in November 1942, and photocopies of several signed photographs of Eisenhower, the originals of which were retained by the family.

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Arranged chronologically.

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