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Photograph of (L to R): Great Britain Prime Minster Clement R. Attlee, United States President Harry S. Truman, and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin, seated in the garden at the Potsdam Conference. This photograph was taken on July 26, 1945 and was the first ever color news photograph to be transmitted and received by radio waves and published. The photograph was taken by the US Army Signal Corps and transmitted by Master Sergeant Joseph E. Dunn from Potsdam, Germany, to Arlington, Virginia in the United States, where it was received by Technical Sergeant Arthur Grant Anderson. It was transmitted using a transceiver from ACME Newspictures Telephoto Co.