Smiling Ike
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Smiling Ike

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Printing Plate

Associated Press

Maker
American

Smiling Ike

October 26, 1955
Printing plate
Image: 12.3 x 9.5 cm (4 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Overall: 14.4 x 13 cm (5 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Gift of Phyllis Gordon, 2012
2012.0430.0019
Inscriptions recto (in image): AP
(embossed): M [embossed twice]
[insignia with the following text] 53
12 ED

verso (pencil): Smiling Ike
President Eisenhower
[illeg.] from
recent heart attack
Oct. 26, 1955

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