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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Joseph Stalin Figurine
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Joseph Stalin Figurine

Object numberMO 1945.8.7
Name Figurine
Artist (American, 1900 - 1986)
Dateca. 1941
Mediumplaster, paint
Dimensionsoverall H 8 1/4 in x W 3 in x D 4 1/8 in (21 cm x 7.6 cm x 10.5 cm )
DescriptionA painted plaster caricature figurine of Joseph Stalin. Stalin is shown standing on a low base with his hands clasped behind his back. He is wearing a gray jacket with black buttons, gray pants, and black shoes.
Label TextShortly after America entered World War II, Winston W. Stadig of Oak Lawn, Rhode Island created plaster statuettes of the “Big Three”—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. In May 1944, he sent the statuettes (MO 1945.85.5-7) to FDR. In a letter to Roosevelt that accompanied his gift he recalled, “Three years ago not many had the courage to feel hopeful. More than all others you, Mr. President, and Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin were so strongly confident in ultimate victory over international gangsters that the mesmerism of fear which had gripped the world was broken.”
Additional Details
Custodial History NoteDeposited at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 25, 1943. It was donated as a bequest of FDR to the Library in 1947.
Credit LineEstate of Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesPortraits (National Archives Identifier 778816)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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