Well done, Peter.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/6/2011 5:49 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
> My mother-in-law, Ada (right, with pencil) translating at the United
> Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1946.
>
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/6468086051/in/photostream>
>
> Background: Just before she finished University in Kiev, Ada was
> essentially drafted to serve as a translator/interpreter for Ukraine's
> delegation to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) at a
> conference on postwar reconstruction. She thought she was going for a
> couple of weeks. It turned out she was abroad for a year, and worked in
> Geneva, Paris and New York. Once back in the USSR, she was not permitted
> to travel abroad again until the family emigrated to the U.S. in 1979.
>
> Scanned from an 18x24.5 cm print. Camera unknown. I've done a bit of curve
> adjustment, burning in the flare at right, and repair of the worst spots
> and scratches. Believe me, the irony of my retouching a Soviet photograph
> is not lost on me :-)
>
> --Peter
>
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