Diplomats

Edwin W. Pauley (left) and an unidentified man posing after a moose hunt.

Governor of New York Averell Harriman and his wife Marie Harriman pose with their dog in their annual holiday card.

Former President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman standing with U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. Stanley Woodward in front of the Embassy at Salzburg. Photo is from an album of photos of Mr. Truman's trip to Europe in 1956. Original 35mm negatives are in the folder with the album.

Myron C. Taylor, President Harry S. Truman's personal representative to the Vatican in Rome, chats with Pope Pius XII (right) who is seated at his desk in his office in the Vatican. From: Truman Home.

Charles Raynor (left), U.S. State Department Chairman and Sir William Brown (right), K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary of the Civil Defense Department and head of the British Delegation at the Discussion between the United States and United Kingdom on the Petroleum Question at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Secretary of State, Donald Russell, and Virginia Utsey Russell stand outside the Meeks Field passenger terminal in Keflavik, Iceland, 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).

Informal portrait of Arthur Z. Gardiner. Mr. Gardiner was Special Assistant, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, Department of State, from 1945 to 1954.

Photograph of George C. McGhee sitting at his desk surrounded by four men. The man at extreme left is William Rountree. The photo is autographed by each man; however, only the signatures of Mr. McGee and Mr. Rountree are clear. Mr. McGhee was Director, U.S. Commercial Company (1946); Special Assistant to the Secretary of State (1949); Special Representative, Near East on the Palestine Refugee Problems, rank of Minister (1949); and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs (1949-51).

Photo of Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York (right) and diplomat Arthur Z. Gardiner (left).

President Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, and Stanley Woodward on board the U.S.S. Missouri, in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. Sugar Loaf mountain in the background. From: Charles Ross Papers, 12x18 Metal Album.