3964105 Winston Churchill in America, 1929 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman, army officer and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940-45 and 1951-55 and led Britain to victory during the Second World War. He was in New York at the time of the 1929 Wall Street crash, on an American lecture tour, having lost his Parliamentary seat in the May election).