Cities and towns

Peiping and the "Forbidden City" from the top of Coal Hill. 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).

Peiping, China; White Pagoda from the top of Coal Hill. 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).

Photo is of elderly Chinese woman sitting cross-legged on the side of the street in Peiping, China. The photographer noted her small feet. 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).

Peiping, China: Chinese wedding. 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).

Peiping, China, Chinese funeral. Taoists monks precede the coffin and mourners in white follow. 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).

A view of the San Francisco skyline from the Fairmont Hotel, taken during the Harry S. Truman western trip in June, 1948.

Harbin, Manchuria; destroyed housing units. Housing units destroyed by Chinese looters. This type of housing, mostly for industrial workers, existed in all the industrial cities of Manchuria. After initial looting by Soviet troops and Chinese, the wood was removed for fuel. 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).

Chinchow, Manchuria, remains of industrial housing. Photograph shows buildings at a distance with mountains behind. 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).

Hsian, Manchuria; industrial housing wrecked. This was reported as having been done by the Chinese looters. 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).

The remains of plant workers dwellings, first looted by Soviet Troops, then destroyed by local Chinese. Picture shows military jeep parked outside abandoned hull of a building. 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).