Karsh Signature

Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century

Sittings

Every sitting was recorded on a card file by the Karsh studio. The cards have been transcribed and are searchable here. Some personal data has been excluded, some information corrected, and some standardizations have been made to make searching simpler, but otherwise the information you see is largely how it was originally typed. Browse or search below by name, and choose to order the sittings by number, date or name.

BY NUMBER NAME DATE

Sittings by Sitting Number

sitting #
date
Name
Role, Location, Notes
8909
Jun 11 1943

Madame Karsh

At home with Barbara and Aunt Lucia
8913
Jul 6 1943

Dr. I. Cankar

Minister from Yugoslavia to Canada
For Maclean’s
8928
Jul 16 1943

Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt

Attorney General & Minister of External Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia - with Prime Minister King
8932
Jul 19 1943

Mr. Paul Martin

Parliamentary Assistant to Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour
8958
Aug 25 1943

Franklin Roosevelt

Roosevelt Group at G. H. With Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King
8961
Aug 18 1943

Malak Karsh

With Barbara and Yousuf at Karsh home
8982
Sep 12 1943

M. Jan Masaryk

Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
For LIFE Magazine
8983
Sep 12 1943

M. Hubert Pierlot

Prime Minister & Minister of National Defence for Belgium
8984
Sep 1 1943

M. Paul-Henri Spaak

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Labour & Social Welfare for Belgium
9025
Sep 12 1943

Vive La France

Sergeant Joseph Saumureau, Croix de Guerre avec Palme et Medaille des Evades
9034
Dec 14 1943

Mr. Charles Shearer

Censor of Radio Programmes, C.B.C.
For Everybody’s Magazine
9103
Feb 9 1944

Mr. S. M. Wedd

General Manager, Canadian Bank of Commerce
9131
Aug 1 1943

Madame Karsh

Exteriors & Interiors, also Winter 1944 Tia & Chickadee
9137
Mar 17 1944

Claud Wickard

Secretary of Agriculture
For LIFE Magazine
9150
Mar 29 1944

Mr. Paul V. McNutt

Administrator, Federal Security Agency; Chairman, War Manpower Commission
For LIFE Magazine
9151
Mar 30 1944

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Office Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Commerce Dept. Washington, D.C.
9152
Mar 30 1944

Mr. Ralph A. Bard

Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9154
Mar 31 1944

Mr. Elmer Davis

Director, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9158
Apr 3 1944

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9159
Apr 3 1944

Mr. Byron Price

Director of Censorship, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9160
Apr 3 1944

Harold D. Smith

Director, Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9161
Apr 4 1944

Mr. James F. Byrnes

Director of War Mobilization, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9162
Apr 4 1944

Fred M. Vinson

Director, Economic Stabilization Board
For LIFE Magazine
9163
Apr 6 1944

Mr. Leo T. Crowley

Alien Property Custodian, also Administrator Foreign Economic Administrations, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9164
Apr 7 1944

Charles E. Wilson

Chairman, Joint War Production, USA & Canada
For LIFE Magazine
9166
Apr 8 1944

Chester Bowles

Administrator, Office of Price Administration, Washington D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9179
May 15 1944

General H. H. Arnold

Commanding General Army Air Forces, War Dept., Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9180
Apr 15 1944

Mr. Robert A. Lovett

Assistant Secretary of War for Air, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9184
Apr 17 1944

Mr. L. B. Pearson

(Mike) Minister Counselor, Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
9187
Apr 19 1944

Mr. William Green

Head of American Federation of Labor, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE
9191
Apr 22 1944

Admiral Ernest J. King

Commander in Chief US Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations
For LIFE Magazine
9193
Apr 25 1944

Mr. Potter

Press Officer, Supreme Court of the USA
9197
Apr 26 1944

Mr. A. F. Plumptre

Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C., Wartime Prices & Trade Board
9200
May 1 1944

Sir John Dill

British Joint Staff Mission, Offices of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.
9203
May 4 1944

Mr. John J. McCloy

Assistant Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9210
May 11 1944

Mr. Bernard M. Baruch

Special Advisor to Director, Office of War Mobilization
For LIFE Magazine
9227
Jun 1 1944

Malak Karsh

With Aunt Lucia, Barbara and Yousuf at Wakefield
9237
Jun 19 1944

Mr. E. G. Baker

Canada Life Assurance Co., Director of Bank of Canada
9259
Jul 19 1944

Mr. K. Markon

President, Wool Combing Corp. of Canada
9326
Jan 1 1940

YMCA

Group of Boys in Y
9339
Oct 16 1944

Elizabeth Gordon

Editor, House Beautiful. (Mrs. Carl Norcross)
For House Beautiful Magazine
9361
Oct 28 1944

Dr. W. E. Gallie

Professor of Surgery, Toronto University. President, Royal College of Surgeons. Past Pres, American College of Surgeons
9388
Nov 25 1944

Dr. Sidney E. Smith

Principal, University College, Toronto. President-Elect, University of Toronto
9390
Nov 27 1944

Mrs. G. L. Reid

Canadian Supervisor, The Welcome Wagon Service Co.
9426
Jan 11 1945

Mrs. John S. Labatt

Lady District Supt. for Western Ontario, St. John Ambulance Brigade
9439
Jan 18 1945

Mr. C. H. Dickins

Vice President & General Manager, Canadian-Pacific Air Lines
9446
Jan 20 1945

Mr. Justice W. C. Ives

Retired Chief Justice of Alberta. Chairman Salaries Control Order; Royal Commission on Taxation, Annuities and Family Corps.
9452
Jan 26 1945

Mrs. Leslie J. Hodges

Co-ordinator of Women’s Organisation, Progressive Conservative Party
9470
Feb 10 1945

Miss Margaret McKenzie

Secretary to Undersecretary of State for External Affairs (Norman Robertson)
9482
Feb 26 1945

Mr. Rielle Thomson

Director of Public Relations, Dept. of Munitions & Supply
9493
Mar 28 1945

Mr. Justin M. Cork

Vice President & General Manager, Loblaw Groceterias Ltd.
9500
Apr 1 1945

Mr. Isador Lubin

Commissioner of Labor Statistics
For LIFE Magazine
9501
Apr 1 1945

Mr. Robert E. Hannegan

Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9503
Apr 1 1945

David K. Niles

Administrative Assistant to the President
For LIFE Magazine
9506
Apr 1 1945

Mr. Oscar Cox

Deputy Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
For LIFE Magazine
9509
Apr 1 1945

Mr. Edward F. Prichard

General Counsel, Office of War, Mobilization and Reconversion, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9510
Apr 1 1945

Mr. J. A. Krug

Chairman, War Production Board
For LIFE Magazine
9511
Apr 1 1945

Mr. Hugh Fulton

Chief Counsel, The Truman Committee, Washington, D.C.
For LIFE Magazine
9517
Apr 27 1945

Sir Archibald Clark

Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel. Lord Inverchapel. British Ambassador to USA
9519
Apr 28 1945

Commander Harold E. Stassen

USNR. Delegate to United Nations Conference at San Francisco, California. Formerly Flag Officer to Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., Admiral of 3rd Fleet in Pacific
For LIFE Magazine
9521
May 1 1945

Dr. T. V. Soong

Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs
For LIFE Magazine
9527
May 4 1945

M. Jan Masaryk

Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
9530
May 7 1945

Mr. V. M. Molotov

USSR People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs
For LIFE Magazine
9532
May 6 1945

Mr. George Mardikian

Owner, Omar Khayyam Restaurant, San Francisco, California
For LIFE Magazine
9535
May 9 1945

Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo

Chinese Ambassador to the Court of St. James, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs, at San Francisco, California
9557
Jun 6 1945

Mr. A. W. Trueman

President, University of Manitoba
For Saturday Night Magazine
9567
Jun 25 1945

Mrs. Conniver

& Colleen
J. Walter Thompson Company Eastman Assignments
9567
Jun 25 1945

Mr. & Mrs Crowell

And children
J. Walter Thompson Company Eastman Assignments
9567
Jun 25 1945

Nancy Shew

J. Walter Thompson Company Eastman Assignments
9573
Jul 30 1945

Mr. J. J. Harpell

Chairman of Board of Directors, Garden City Press Co-operative
9645
Nov 15 1945

Mr. Walter Gifford

President, American Telephone & Telegraph, AT&T
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9649
Nov 20 1945

Mr. Eugene Grace

President, Bethlehem Steel
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9655
Nov 29 1945

Mr. Eugene Holman

President, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey
For LIFE Magazine
9656
Jan 1 1945

Mr. Paul Gray Hoffman

President, Studebaker Corporation
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9672
Dec 11 1945

Miss Erica Morini

Violinist. With Dr. Désiré Defauw, Violinist and Conductor
J. Walter Thompson RCA
9692
Jan 11 1946

Mr. Martin W. Clement

President of the Pennsylvania Railroad
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9694
Jan 12 1946

Licia Albanese

Alone and with Robert Merrill
J. Walter Thompson RCA
9698
Jan 18 1946

Pierre Luboshutz

Pianist. With Genia Nemenoff & Shaw
J. Walter Thompson RCA
9699
Jan 29 1946

Mr. Donald W. Douglas

President, Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc.
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9718
Feb 18 1946

Mr. Henry Ford II

Ford Motor Company
For LIFE Magazine Captains of Industry
9728
Feb 28 1946

Mr. Pierre Monteux

Conductor, San Francisco Orchestra
J. Walter Thompson RCA
9739
Mar 22 1946

Yousuf Karsh

Studio Portrait (With negative Peggy Cummings)
For A.P.
9740
Mar 24 1946

Madame Karsh

Portrait at Little Wings (Indoor & Outdoor)
9759
May 27 1946

Jan Peerce

Opera singer. And Leonard Warren
9772
Feb 1 1946

Miss Ann Straus

Public Relations, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
9791
Aug 30 1946

Mr. F. H. Brown

Financial Adviser to Minister of Reconstruction & Supply
9794
Sep 8 1946

Kurt Weill

Composer
The Playwrights Company
9795
Sep 10 1946

Elmer Rice

Playwright
The Playwrights Company
9811
Oct 1 1946

G. S. Gray Esq.

Manager, Canadian Division, Twin Coach Company
SHOW 40 100 500 1000
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