Children

Stanton Griffis, second from right, with a local Muslim family at Malabar Hill in Bombay, now Mumbai, India.

An unidentified woman and child on the side of a building with numerous woven baskets and a small dog nearby, somewhere near Dran, Vietnam.

Partial view of a young Bedouin boy standing in the desert near St. Catherine's Monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Charles Thayer describes as "a young Bedouin boy outside the Monastery." Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles W. Thayer and his wife Cynthia took in March 1961. Photos intended for a possible magazine article by Thayer. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Interior view with United States Ambassador to Italy, 1946-1952, James C. Dunn on the right shaking hands with an unidentified boy who is standing with other children and adults. Identification with the photograph indicates it was taken in Rome, Italy, at the inauguration of a children's art exhibit. Included on the back is the list of guests invited to a reception held Saturday, July 28, 1951 at 7 p.m. at Villa Taverna, official residence of the United States Ambassador to Italy.

Unidentified children walking along a beach in Vietnam.

John R. Steelman (right), assistant to President Harry S. Truman, makes friends with 5-year old Barbara Cox who represented the District of Columbia Society for Crippled Children at the showing of "The Roosevelt Story" in Washington. The film "The Roosevelt Story" is a documentary of the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

An young male farmer is sitting on the back of a two-horse-drawn plow, with a young child standing up near the horses. This photograph was taken to be used for publicity pamphlets for the Farmer's Home Administration. The people in the photograph are unidentified.

Unidentified Montagnard children in a school setting at a Montagnard village near Ban Methout, Vietnam.

Santa Claus is distributing gifts to three children at the International Children's Christmas Broadcast in Washington, D.C. Paula Pace (daughter of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace) represented the United States (left). Two other children, dressed in native costumes, are unidentified.

A group of children representatives at the International Children's Christmas Broadcast in Washington, D.C. are seated in a large room with a Christmas tree. Many of the children are wearing native costumes. Paula Pace, daughter of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, is sitting in the first row, seventh from the left. All others are unidentified.