John Calvin Hill, Jr., left, U.S. consul general to the Dominican Republic, presents his credentials as American charge d'affaires to the Dominican Republic to Foreign Minister Alfonso Alvarez Aybar in Santo Domingo yesterday. Ceremony marked the resumption of relations between the two nations for the first time since the Organization of American States imposed economic and diplomatic sanctions against the defunct Trujillo regime.

Photo is dated 1962.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.