Children

Oval portrait of an unidentified blond, female child, probably one to two years of age, wearing a frilly white dress. She may be a relative of the Wallace or Truman family. From: Truman Home.

Group of Chinese children in Liaoyang, Manchuria. 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).

Young Chinese girl and boy in Communist-held Harbin, Manchuria. 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).

President Harry S. Truman standing on the rear platform of the presidential train, probably in Bolivar, Missouri. The President is holding a small child, and a crowd is gathered around the train. President Truman dedicated a statue of Simon Bolivar while visiting Bolivar.

Robert V. "Buzz" Pauley, age 2, crouches at seaside. His father was Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley.

Cross country horseback riders Ned Kennedy and Cecil Cary from Tacoma, Washington let two unidentified children sit on their horses at the west wing of the White House as they wait to meet President Harry S. Truman. The riders have just completed a 3,500 mile trek.

Ambrotype of Elizabeth Emery Gates (grandmother of Bess Truman), holding a small child, evidently one of her children. Original framed ambrotype is stored in lower stack area with other original fragile photos. An 8x10 print is in the file.

Margaret Truman (kneeling in foreground) with other unidentified children in the back yard of the Truman home. From: Truman home.

A group of children play outside at Displaced Persons Farm, Furth, Germany while others observe. A banner in a foreign language hangs on building behind group. 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).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley receives flowers from school children at Displaced Persons Camp in Furth, Germany. 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).