Comes this wonderful shot of the 14-year-old Claiborne Pell and his young half-brother, Hugo Koehler, in London in the summer of 1933. Pell and Koehler were with their mother, the former Matilda (Bigelow) Pell -- and this photo, according to Pell's notes, was taken with Matilda's new Leica camera.
This was but one of many gems I found today as I research the papers of Claiborne's father, Herbert, whose Hopewell Junction estate, Pellbridge, is not far from the library. FDR was an old friend of Herbert. I'll be back at the library first thing tomorrow for more...
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York.
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