Potsdam Conference, 1945

The Cecilienhof Palace, site of the Big Three Conference at Potsdam. Russian guards are on guard at the front entrance. From: Papers of Charles G. Ross; 12x18 Metal album with letters CGR.

Elaborate preparations were made for the Big Three Conference in this photo of the courtyard between the main gate and entrance to conference room at Potsdam (red star in flowers). Same as 63-1457-17. From: Papers of Charles G. Ross; 12x18 Metal album with letters CGR.

General Dwight Eisenhower chats with President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (right) at an airfield in Brussels, Belgium, en route to Potsdam, Germany. From: Papers of Charles G. Ross; 12x18 Metal album with letters CGR.

President Harry S. Truman, immediately after setting foot on foreign soil (he is traveling to the Potsdam Conference, is greeted by the Mayor of Antwerp, Belgium. Duplicate of 63-1455-3. From: Papers of Charles G. Ross; 12x18 Metal album with letters CGR.

President Harry S. Truman greets Col. L. Curtis Tiernan, Chaplain to U. S. forces in the European Theatre, and some of the soldiers who also attended Catholic services held in the U. S. Compound of the Berlin conference area. Col. Tiernan was Chaplain of President Truman's World War I unit. The photo is autographed (copy) as follows: "Highest regards to my favorite Chaplain, Col. L. Curtis Tiernan, Harry S. Truman." (Similar to 66-3451, 64-48, and 63-1455-48). From: Jack Denzer.

From left to right: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry S. Truman, and Marshall Joseph Stalin at a meeting of the Allies at Potsdam. This image is a slight crop of another image in our collection, 63-1457-28.

General view of the conference table at the Potsdam Conference. Josef Stalin can be seen at the center of the table in the white uniform. Others from his left are: unidentified Soviet military official; Andre Gromyko; Admiral William Leahy; Secretary of State James Byrnes; President Harry S. Truman; Charles Bohlen; Joseph E. Davies; Sir Alexander Cadogan; Clement R. Attlee; Major Birse of Britain; unidentified Soviet official; Andre I. Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs; Soviet Foreign Minister Vyashaslav Molotov. The Soviet official between Vishinsky and Molotov is A. B.

President Truman is shown in an open car with General Dwight Eisenhower (center) and General Omar Bradley on their way to a Potsdam conference. From: Frank Gatteri, U.S. Army Photographer.

President Harry S. Truman leaves his temporary "White House" to attend a meeting of the Potsdam Conference. Behind President Truman on the stairs, from left to right, is Captain James K. Vardaman, U. S. Navy, the President's naval aide; and Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, his military aide. The Little White House is the residence of President Truman during the Potsdam Conference in Germany. From Frank Gatteri, U.S. Army Photographer

President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (right) gesticulate in a friendly argument under a tree in the garden of the "Little White House" at Potsdam, Germany. Similar to 89-76 and 70-5953. From: Frank Gatteri, U.S. Army Photographer.