Children

View of unidentified children attending a Christmas party. Although not identified, the party appears to have been given by Ambassador and Mrs. James C. Dunn while Mr. Dunn was U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952). The location probably is Rome, Italy and held during the early 1950s.

View of children and parents attending a Christmas party. Although not identified, the party appears to have been given by Ambassador and Mrs. James C. Dunn while Mr. Dunn was U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952). The location probably is Rome, Italy and held during the early 1950s.

Partial view of a Santa Claus and Ambassador James C. Dunn with a group of unidentified children attending a Christmas party. They are receiving gifts in this view. Although not identified, the party appears to have been given by Ambassador and Mrs. James C. Dunn while Mr. Dunn was U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952). The location probably is Rome, Italy and held during the early 1950s.

Partial view of a Santa Claus with a group of children attending a Christmas party. They are receiving gifts in this view. Although not identified, the party appears to have been given by Ambassador and Mrs. James C. Dunn while Mr. Dunn was U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952). The location probably is Rome, Italy and held during the early 1950s.

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.