First Lady
Photograph

Magnum Photos, Inc.

Maker
American, estab. 1947

First Lady

The "World Family" Approaches Maturity


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 5 7/8 × 9 7/16 in. (15 × 24 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0349
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (U.N.) 9/62 7) FIRST LADY: Miss Angie Brooks of Liberia is the first \ woman from Africa to occupy a U.N. chairmanship. Here, as chairman \ of the General Assembly's Fourth (Trusteeship) Committee, she \ discusses the future of Ruanda-Urundi. The territory has now \ become two independent countries. \ Credit: UNITED NATIONS © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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