Young Chinese boys working as street merchants in Mukden, Manchuria in front of Yamato Hotel (also called Shenyang Railway Hotel), posing for photograph taken by Karl, a member of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley's Reparations Mission. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).