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1. NCHURC_181025_005.JPG: Winston Churchill by Ivor Roberts-Jones, R.A. Cast directly from the plaster taken from the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London
2. NCHURC_181025_012.JPG: The National Churchill Library & Center The George Washington University Washington, DC
3. NCHURC_181025_017.JPG: Sir Winston Churchill by Robert Leister Stetson
4. NCHURC_181025_025.JPG: Sir Winston Churchill A Man in Full
5. NCHURC_181025_032.JPG: Letter from Clementine S. Churchill to Admiral Cooke, USN 8 April 1944 Wartime rationing caused shortages of many staple products in the United Kingdom. In this letter, Clementine Churchill thanks an American admiral for the gift of much-needed matches.
6. NCHURC_181025_037.JPG: Campaign Rosette ca. 1945 Churchill wore this rosette -- colored blue to signify his membership in the Conservative party -- during a number of campaigns.
7. NCHURC_181025_044.JPG: Medals worn by Winston Churchill
8. NCHURC_181025_049.JPG: Snuff Box Silver, ca 1908 Clementine Churchill presented this snuff box to Winston on the occasion of their wedding on 12 September 1908. It features an engraved heart which is written: Winston from Clementine 1908.
9. NCHURC_181025_061.JPG: Cigarette Case Silver, ca 1908 Clementine Churchill presented this cigarette case to Winston on the occasion of their wedding on 12 September 1908. He later presented it to their son, Randolph, on his 28th birthday. The engraving reads: Randolph from his Father, May 28, 1939.
10. NCHURC_181025_067.JPG: Churchill Engagement Diary December 1941 Churchill learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December while at Chequers -- the Prime Minister's weekend residence. He later wrote that he went to bed that night "and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful." The following day shows a flurry of activity.
11. NCHURC_181025_076.JPG: Draft, "The United States of Europe" ca 1931 One of many articles, speeches, and declarations by Churchill in favor of European unity. The many emendations illustrate his careful and painstaking process of composition.
12. NCHURC_181025_083.JPG: United States Capitol Flag December 26, 1941 This flag was flown over the United States Capitol on the day of Churchill's address to a Joint Session of Congress, less than three weeks after American entry into World War II. He rallies his audience with a call for unity and resolve, and joked: "If my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my own."
13. NCHURC_181025_093.JPG: Winston Churchill A Distant View of Venice ca 1935 Churchill began to paint at the age of 40 and produced more than 500 canvases. Painting was therapeutic for him and, tutored by some of the best artists of his day, he developed a vivid and pleasing style. "I must say I like bright colors," he once wrote. "I rejoice with the brilliant ones and feel genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
14. NCHURC_181025_102.JPG: Winston Churchill Painting Chateau de Lourmain in Aix-en-Provence November 1948
15. NCHURC_181025_106.JPG: Letter from Churchill to Col. Carmichael 10 January 1919 Churchill wrote this letter of commendation while serving as Minister of Munitions. This role was important to Churchill as it represented his redemption after the humiliation of the Dardanalles fiasco in 1915.
16. NCHURC_181025_110.JPG: Letter from Churchill to Herbert Greene 4 December 1947 Churchill expresses his appreciation for a gift of cigars, one of his favorite pleasures and a critical component of his public image.
17. NCHURC_181025_117.JPG: Sarah Churchill A Study of Winston Churchill, Wearing a Hat lithograph Winston Churchill's second daughter was also a painter, when she wasn't acting on stage and screen. The artist Curtis Hooper adapted a series of her paintings of her father into lithographs like this one.
18. NCHURC_181025_128.JPG: Oscar Nemon Winston Churchill ca 1970 This reduction of the standing bronze statue in the Members' Lobby of the British House of Commons was sculpted by the Croatian-born Oscar Nemon, who became a close and trusted friend of Churchill and his family. He produced many busts and statues of Churchill, and captured his subject's energy and magnetism. Once, while Nemon was sculpting him, Churchill seized a piece of clay and molded a bust of the artist. It can be viewed at Chartwell and is Churchill's only known work of sculpture.
19. NCHURC_181025_135.JPG: William Orpen Winston Churchill 1916 Irish artist William Orpen produced this sketch of Churchill in preparation for the moody, somber portrait that he completed later that year. Churchill considered the finished work -- painted during the low point of his professional career following the failure of the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War -- to be the finest likeness ever done of him. He told Orpen: "It is not the picture of a man. It is the picture of a man's soul."
20. NCHURC_181025_139.JPG: Yousuf Karsh "Winston Churchill" 30 December 1941 Yousuf Karsh took this famous portrait immediately after Churchill delivered a speech to the Canadian Parliament. He produced his subject's scowl by plucking a cigar out of Churchill's mouth just before taking the picture.
21. NCHURC_181025_144.JPG: Letter from Churchill to J.F. Bedell, Jr. 31 March 1963 When Churchill was awarded honorary citizenship to the United States on 9 April 1963, it was the first time that Congress had resolved that the President bestow citizenry on a foreign national. In the months preceding this event, Churchill had been granted honorary citizenship of eight states, including West Virginia. Churchill, age 88, expresses in these letters his sincere gratitude for this honor.
22. NCHURC_181025_153.JPG: Redeemed Ticket Issues to Missouri Sen. Allen McReynolds for John Findley Green Foundation Lecture 5 March 1946 This ticket admitted the bearer to Churchill's famed "Sinews of Peace" speech at Westminster College, during which he warned that "an iron curtain had descended across the continent" of Europe.
23. NCHURC_181025_159.JPG: Letter from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to Dr. David Stinson 27 July 1971
24. NCHURC_181025_167.JPG: Young Churchill Seated at his Desk ca 1900 Autographed postcard
25. NCHURC_181025_169.JPG: Winston Churchill in Westminster College Gymnasium Delivering "The Sinews of Peace" speech 5 March 1946
26. NCHURC_181025_176.JPG: Photograph of Winston Churchill and President Truman on Train at Jefferson City, Missouri 5 March 1946
27. NCHURC_181025_178.JPG: Letter from Churchill to his publisher, George G. Harrap 10 August 1932 Churchill writes to his publisher about his ongoing literary project, Marlborough, a four-volume biography of his ancestor, John Churchill, the First Duke of Marlborough, one of the greatest British generals in history.
28. NCHURC_181025_180.JPG: Letter from Churchill to Emery Reves 18 April 1954 Even while in power, literary projects were never far from Churchill's mind. In this letter to his friend and literary agent, written from Downing Street during his second premiership. Churchill discusses his plans to complete his History of the English Speaking Peoples upon retirement.
29. NCHURC_181025_186.JPG: First Five Books by Winston Churchill The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) The River War (1899) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900) Ian Hamilton's March (1900) Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania (1900) By the time these books were written, Churchill had been in the thick of fighting in Cuba, India, Sudan, and South Africa. Battles proved his courage and resourcefulness. But it was with his pen that Churchill truly displayed his quality and versatility of mind. Reflecting in 1950 that "already in 1900 I could boast to have written as many books as Moses," Churchill's first five books are as varied as his early experience: gripping tales of war; evocative descriptions of place; eloquent support for Empire; blunt condemnation of imperial cynicism and cruelty; even the self-revealing inventions of a novelist. At the age of 25, these books show his discovering the torrent of words he would channel like no other statesmen of his age.
30. NCHURC_181025_197.JPG: Letter from Churchill to C.C. Wood, chief copy editor at his publisher, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. This letter regarding his monumental, four-volume biography of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, helps explain the process by which he undertook the work. The first volume was published in 1933 and the last in 1939, just a year before Churchill was again made First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of World War II.
31. NCHURC_181025_212.JPG: Punch, Or the London Charivari Volume 134 (January-June), 1908 Edward Tennyson Reed "Try to Find a Safe Seat" Punch, 29 April 1908 This original pencil cartoon by the renowned cartoonist Edward Tennyson Reed was first published in 1908 when Churchill was forced to stand again for reelection to the seat of Liberal Member of Parliament for Manchester Northwest -- an appointment he had held since 1906. Churchill lost the election to the conservative candidate largely because of free trade, a significant issue in his early career and one of the policy issues that led to his break with the Conservative Party in 1904. The western apparel motif plays on the fact that Churchill's mother was American and deftly cues his brash, maverick nature. Churchill would be bucked many times by public opinion -- and just as many times he would climb right back in the proverbial saddle.
32. NCHURC_181025_215.JPG: Autograph booklet with signature Annual Conference of the Institute of Journalists London, September 1900 In September 1900, Churchill attended the Annual Conference of the Institute of Journalists. Signing this autograph booklet along with the other 29 journalists, Churchill, just 25 years old, was a soldier and war correspondent who had yet to hold elected office.
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Wikipedia Description: National Churchill Library and Center
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The National Churchill Library and Center (NCLC) is a public library and museum at the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the life and work of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It is located on the ground level of the GWU's Gelman Library.

The NCLC was officially opened on 29 October 2016 and is a collaboration between the George Washington University and the International Churchill Society. The concept of a Churchill research library in the United States was conceived in 2012 by International Churchill Society Chairman, Laurence Geller CBE, and the then President of the George Washington University, Steven Knapp. It was the first research facility in the U.S. capital dedicated to the study of Churchill.

The NCLC contains hundreds of volumes by and about Churchill; a touchscreen exhibit based on the 2012 exhibition "Churchill: The Power of Words" at the Morgan Library in New York; online access to the Churchill Archive housed at Churchill College, Cambridge; and primary sources including the engagement diary cards that recorded Churchill's schedule during World War II.
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