Hats

Waiters in hats at a restaurant in Calcutta, India. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations tour. 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). Pauley stands second from left.

Head-and-shoulders portrait (in a 7.5 inch diameter circle) of Maud Louise Gates Wells (Drake) wearing a large hat. She is the daughter of G. Walter Gates and first cousin of Bess Wallace Truman. From: John Elliott.

A display table for a waterproof hat called "The Weatherbird." The photo was sent along with color swatches and a letter to President Harry S. Truman, offering complimentary hats to Truman and his staff.