General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:6/1

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #6 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_006-001

Legacy ID

rfe_interviews-001

Date

1959

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

A father with two children, one around three or four years old, the other a toddler, is sitting on a couch and talks to an RFE journalist. The father is wearing a suit and tie, the elder child is a girl wearing a dress, thick print socks and dark shoes, the younger is warmly clad, has a knitted cap. The children stare in the camera, the father looks at the microphone with the sign RFE held by the journalist of whom only the left arm, thigh and left back part of his head is seen in the picture.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Message to Hungary is given by a refugee family over Radio Free Europe. Keeping the homeland countries in touch with their countrymen in exile is an important service performed by RFE.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

child, Cold War, father, interview, man, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty