Two women ride beneath a striped parasol in an open touring car, surrounded by onlookers and press staff. The scene, preserved in a U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph album, is consistent with the widely covered June 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the United States, during which First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (at right) accompanied the royal couple on public appearances that helped strengthen Anglo-American ties on the eve of the Second World War. Project: 218292