Caption on reverse [translation]: "Maxim Litvinov. People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union."

Caption on reverse [translation]: "No. 6,840. [Maxim] Litvinov. Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. [Stamped] February 1938."

Caption on reverse [translation]: "No. 6,227. Maxim Litvinov. People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. [Stamped] February 1937."

Caption on front: "On the sixteenth anniversary of the Soviet its representative comes to America: Maxim Litvinov gets his first view of the new world from the deck of the Berengaria, on which he traveled from Europe to his meeting with President Roosevelt. (Times Wide World Photos.)"

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Domei Photographic Overseas A News October 10, 1938. Litvinov in Danger. (Moscow) Domei. The insatiable storm of Red Russia's purge seems to be reaching even Foreign Minister Litvinov, seen as Stalin's right hand man. The outcome is being closely watched. Photograph: Litvinov (right) speaking with French Foreign Minister Bonnet at the League …