Diplomats

Snapshot of men standing outside a building in Hankow, China. Diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. is second from left. Others are unidentified.

Snapshot of men standing outside a building in Hankow, China. Diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. is second from left. Others are unidentified.

Snapshot of diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. smoking a pipe and reading while seated in a lawn chair.

Diplomat John Paton Davies: "Snapshot taken at a farewell feast given by our Chinese staff for our departing Consul General. I am playing a drinking game, on the left, with one of our more Falstaffian employees whose thumb and top of head show to the right. Hankow, China."

Snapshot of fellow passengers and I having Wuchrug on Poyang Lake, by a fishing smack from the Inland Sea. The fishing smack was requisitioned by the army for transport service. Diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. is fourth from left. They are in China on Poyang Lake.

Snapshot of diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. beside a horse in an open field. Mukden, China.

Snapshot of people standing in an open field in Mukden, China. Diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. is on the left. Others are unidentified.

Photograph of John Paton Davies, Jr. (left), new Counselor of Embassy, arrives at Lima, Peru airport. Man on right is unidentified.

Photograph of diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr., smoking a pipe, in front of the Embassy entrance, Peking, China.

Photograph of diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. (left) and two unidentified officers aboard a ship.