Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: United Press International
Title: Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko met with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (R), on Parliament Hill 12/23. After a 51-minute meeting with the P.M. Lennon said "if all politicians were like Mr. Trudeau, then there would be world peace." Lennon is in Canada with his wife, Yoko Ono, promoting their peace campaign.
Date: 1969-12-23
Medium: gelatin silver print with retouching and editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT-86-1376

Inscriptions:
Recto, handwritten: M- 349; [printed in gsp] OAP122302-12/23/69-OTTAWA: Beatle John Lennon [underscored] and his wife Yoko met with / Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau [marked] (R), on Parliament Hill 12/23. After / a 51-minute meeting with the P.M. Lennon said "if all politicians were / like Mr. Trudeau, then there would be world peace." Lennon is in Canada / with his wife, Yoko Ono, promoting their peace campaign. gb/ja UPI TELE.; handwritten: 1 3/8"; Verso, handwritten: 8 / 7; handwritten: 66-714-4 [circled]; stamped: R DEC 3 '71 [struck through]; stamped: M OCT 12 '72 [struck through]; handwritten: [boxed] HA;NDSHAKE L/O / INS 2 [circled] / 1 3/8" DEEP / STRIP-IN; stamped:RETURN TO TIMES / DATE RECEIVED / DEC 24 1969 / IN PICTURE FILES / PHOTO LIBRARY; stamped: N DEC 24 '69 [struck through]

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection