Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
Visitors, Foreign - Russia
Celebrities - Russia
Authors, Russian
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (center), Russian author and (at the time of this photograph) Soviet exile, visited Colonial Williamsburg on Independence Day, 1975. Solzhenitsyn had been forced to leave the Soviet Union due to his writings, and had only recently arrived in the United States before visiting Colonial Williamsburg and Washington, D.C.
1975-07-04
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1975-1996
Arturo Toscanini
Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957
Conductors (Music) - Italy
Visitors, Foreign - Italy
Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini enjoys a tour of a garden in Colonial Williamsburg with a costumed interpreter. His 1950 visit came during the height of his popularity in the United States while conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
Williams, Thomas L.
1950
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Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan)
Keeshan, Robert
Actors - United States
Celebrities - United States
Entertainers - United States
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 3A.
Children's television host Bob Keeshan, known for playing "Captain Kangaroo," waves to his fans as he descends the Governor's Palace steps. Keeshan often toured the country to meet fans, like this 1969 visit to Williamsburg,
Iseley, Jane
1969
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Chinese President Jiang Zemin and his wife Wang Yeping
Jiang, Zemin, 1926-
Wang, Yaping
Visitors, Foreign - China
Presidents - China
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 3A.
Wilburn, Robert
Chinese President Jiang Zemin and his wife Wang Yeping are presented with gifts by President Wilburn at the Governor's Palace. Jiang's visit to Colonial Williamsburg came with national attention. He took a short tour of the town before meeting with a Colonial Williamsburg interpreter, Bill Barker, who portrayed Thomas Jefferson, one of Jiang's favorite Americans to quote. After the tour, Jiang and his wife were entertained by a harpsichord recital of Telemann and Handel. This photograph was taken after Jiang had donned the colonial three cornered hat presented to him. Jiang's short visit came as part of his first official diplomatic visit to the United States as President of China.
Green, Thomas E.
1997-10-27
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Chinese Table Tennis Team
Visitors, Foreign - China
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Table Tennis players - China
As part of warming relations with China following President Nixon's February 1972 visit, the Chinese table tennis team toured America in April 1972, including a stop at Colonial Williamsburg. In this photograph, a costumed interpreter and translator help explain America's colonial history to the visitors, seated inside the Capitol.
Davis, Frank
1972-04
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Churchill Party Leaving Travis House Restaurant
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Travis House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Restaurants - Virginia - Williamsburg
Soames, Mary, 1922-2013
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Clementine Churchill, wife of Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and her daughter, Mary Churchill, climbing into an automobile after having lunch at the Travis House Restaurant, Williamsburg, Virginia during their wartime visit on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1998-56, 4sCN
Clementine and Mary Churchill
Visitors, Foreign
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Soames, Mary, 1922-2013
Geddy, Vernon
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Clementine Churchill, wife of Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and her daugher, Mary Churchill, touring Colonial Williamsburg with Executive Vice-President Vernon Geddy (middle), Williamsburg, Virginia on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1977-993
Clementine and Mary Churchill
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Soames, Mary, 1922-2013
Soldiers - Virginia - Williamsburg
Clementine Churchill, wife of Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and her daughter, Mary Churchill, visiting with some soldiers during their wartime tour of Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1998-54, 3sCN
Clementine and Mary Churchill
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Soames, Mary, 1922-2013
Clementine Churchill, wife of Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and her daughter, Mary Churchill, during their wartime visit to Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1998-54, 9sCN
Clementine and Mary Churchill
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Soames, Mary, 1922-2013
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Clementine Churchill, wife of Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and her daughter, Mary Churchill chat outside the Governor's Palace during their wartime visit to Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1998-55, 5sCN
Clementine and Mary Churchill
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Soames, Mary, 1922-2013
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Museum docents - Virginia - Williamsburg
Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain, and her daughter, Mary Churchill, touring the Governor's Palace with costumed interpreter, Midge Adolph, during a wartime visit to Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1998-58, 11sCN
Clementine Churchill
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Clementine Churchill, wife of Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, during her wartime visit to Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1997-260CN
Clementine Churchill and Vernon Geddy
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Geddy, Vernon
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Vernon Geddy, Executive Vice-President of Colonial Williamsburg, walking from the Governor's Palace to the George Wythe House during her wartime visit to Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia on September 8, 1943.
Dementi, Frank
19430908
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1998-256, 5sCN
Dedication of Duke of Gloucester Street
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Presidents - American
Streets - Virginia - Williamsburg
Dedications - Virginia - Williamsburg
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's motorcade in front of the Capitol during the dedication ceremony for Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Virginia, on October 20, 1934.
Nivison, Frank
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Éamon De Valera
De Valera, Éamon, 1882-1975
Visitors, Foreign - Ireland
Humelsine, Carlisle
Heads of state - Ireland
Powder Magazine (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 12. Building 09.
Éamon De Valera, Irish revolutionary and statesman (left), is seated in a carriage during his tour with Colonial Williamsburg Foundation President Carlisle Humelsine (middle) of the Historic Area. The Magazine is seen in the background.
Toth, Steve
1964-05-26-30
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Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat
Heads of state - Egypt
Visitors, Foreign - Egypt
Lightfoot House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 03. Building 10.
Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat leaves the Lightfoot House. Sadat's visit to Colonial Williamsburg came as part his first official state visit to the United States since becoming President of Egypt. Following an afternoon touring the Historic Area, Colonial Williamsburg President Carlisle Humelsine gave a dinner in Sadat's honor at Carter's Grove Plantation. Sadat left for Washington the following morning.
1975-10-26
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 3A.
Eleanor Roosevelt in front of the Governor's Palace. Mrs. Roosevelt's visit to Colonial Williamsburg had a full schedule compared to other distinguished visitors. On her first morning in Williamsburg, Mrs. Roosevelt took tours of seven buildings before lunch at Chowing's Tavern. Mrs. Roosevelt would continue her whirlwind tour visiting the Capitol in the afternoon, taking a trip to Jamestown, shopping in Merchant's Square, visiting the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, and finishing the busy day attending an organ recital at Bruton Parish Church.
Rossner, Gerry
1959-02
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Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989
Nagako, Empress, consort of Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1903-2000
Foreign Visitors - Japan
Heads of State - Japan
Kings, Queens, Rulers, etc.
Humelsine, Carlisle H.
Block 02. Building 65.
Williamsburg Inn (Williamsburg, Va.)
Japan's Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako setting out from the Williamsburg Inn on a carriage ride with Colonial Williamsburg president Carlisle Humelsine. The Emperor and Empress requested that their visit be identical to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1957. Accommodations were made at the Williamsburg Inn and around the Historic Area. Security was tighter than normal, due to a threat against the Emperor and Empress from the Japanese Red Army.
October 1, 1975
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1957-2241
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton.
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Chelsea
Presidents' spouses - United States
Printing Office and Post Office (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 18-2. Building 12B.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, visit the Printing Office in Colonial Williamsburg. The Clinton's tour of the Historic Area included visits to numerous locations, with crowds following the First Family up and down Duke of Gloucester street. The Clintons visited the Capitol, the apothecary shop, the post and printing offices, the barber shop, the furniture making shop, and the Governor's Mansion.
Doody, Dave
1993-04-24
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Former President George H. W. Bush
Bush, George, 1924-
Presidents - United States
Heads of state - United States
Lightfoot House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 03. Building 10.
Colonial Williamsburg actor/interpreter John Hamant presents former President George H.W. Bush with a copy of " Williamsburg Before and After" during his visit. Former President Bush visited Colonial Williamsburg in 1995 during his trip to give the commencement speech at the 1995 College of William and Mary graduation ceremonies. "Williamsburg Before and After," often presented to Distinguished Visitors, chronicles the restoration of Williamsburg to its colonial appearance.
Green, Thomas E.
1995-05
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