Album of USSR Stamps

Album of stamps of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The album has a lacquered cover, painted with an image of a globe, several buildings, and two planes with a black background and a gold-tone floral border, inscribed at the bottom, "POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE / U.S.S.R." Cover page has a handwritten note in white ink, "This Collection of Soviet Stamps, the cover of which has been painted / by the Handicraft Artists of / Palech, U.S.S.R., is respectfully / presented to Franklin D. Roosevelt, / President of the United States of / America, in commemoration of / the participation of the Union / of Soviet Socialist Republics in / the New York World's Fair 1939 / Commissioner General of the / Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / to the New York World's Fair 1939 / New York, June 1939 / H.A. Tikhomimov." FDR signature on the title page along with the inscription, "СОЮЗ СОBETCКИX / COЦИАЛСТИЧECКИX / PECПУЂЛИК." Fifty-seven pages of stamps pasted to the pages - and one blank page - with 446 stamps. Presented to FDR in 1939, in commemoration of the participation of the U.S.S.R. in the 1939 New York World's Fair, by H. A. Tikhomimov, Commissioner General of the U.S.S.R. to the New York World's Fair. FDR Library Museum Collection, MO 1941.37.6.