Eva Perón
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María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva "Evita" Perón, was an Argentine politician, activist, and actress who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as t
Portrait, 1944
Eva Duarte at her First Holy Communion, 1926
Eva Duarte and Libertad Lamarque in La Cabalgata del Circo, 1945
Juan Perón
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Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 until his death in 1974.
Eva Perón
…politician, activist, and actress who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón. She was born into poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. In 1934, at the age of 15, she moved…
Official portrait, 1948
Lt. Perón (left) and General José Uriburu (middle), with whose right-wing coup in 1930 he collaborated. Perón backed the more moderate General Agustín Justo, however.
Perón in 1940
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and his benefactor, Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.