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
8857
Jun 3 1943

Dr. Eduard Benes

President of Czecho-Slovakia. Alone and with Prime Minister King
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
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