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A smiling Former President Harry S. Truman and an unidentified group leave the Sheraton Blackstone, Cafe Bonaparte in Chicago, Illinois. This photo is a duplicate of photo 95-66-03.

A smiling Former President Harry S. Truman and an unidentified group leave the Sheraton Blackstone, Cafe Bonaparte in Chicago, Illinois.

Former President Harry S. Truman holds a camera as he and a group of unidentified men leave the Sheraton Blackstone, Cafe Bonaparte in Chicago, Illinois. This photo is a duplicate of photo #95-66-01.

Former President Harry S. Truman holds a camera as he and a group of unidentified men leave the Sheraton Blackstone, Cafe Bonaparte in Chicago, Illinois.

View of "our billets", Hotel St. Raphael, Paris, France. 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).

In Calcutta, India, an Indian boy lies dead, covered by cloth, on sidewalk in front of Great Eastern Hotel. 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).

Calcutta, India, Great Eastern Hotel. Thirteen diners and 24 waiters. Photograph shows long view of room with many tables. The diners are seated toward left and surrounded by large staff of waiters. 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 "Ambassador's Dinner" at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. 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.)

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

H. M. Thorne, General Kerwey Chiang, and Swift at hotel provided for Pauley Mission in Communist-held Mutanchiang, standing next to a sign that reads Long Live the Sino-American Friendship. 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).