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View of Table at which the Japanese Commander Signed Surrender, Winter Palace, Peiping, China; U.S. Reparations Mission

2009-511
Accession Number
2009-511
2.5x4 inches
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 348550012
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Palaces
World War, 1939-1945
Reparations
HST Keywords
China - Peiping
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Description
Peiping, China, Winter Palace. Table at which local Japanese Commander signed surrender in 1945. Costumes lined up behind table are those of ancient Chinese palace guards. Chinese throne is in background. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).
Date(s)
ca.
1946