Statues

President Harry S. Truman and other dignitaries meet at the unveiling ceremony of the George Washington statue at the George Washington National Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia.

Demon Faced Statue Near Shrine in 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Iron Buddha statue in Emperor's Palace in Seoul, Korea. The statue was approximately 800-years old at the time the photograph was taken. 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).

Captain Marlin Fenical posing next to the Temple of Heaven "guard" in Seoul, Korea. 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).

Three men, probably Latin American officials, standing in front of an equestrian statue of Jose de San Martin in Washington, D.C. All are unidentified.

Wreath laying ceremony at the statue of the South American patriot, Jose de San Martin, in Washington, D. C. All are unidentified.

Group of people gathered in front of an equestrian statue of Jose de San Martin in Washington, DC. All are unidentified.

Ceremony in front of an equestrian statue of Jose de San Martin in Washington, DC. All are unidentified.

Ceremony in front of an equestrian statue of Jose de San Martin in Washington, DC. All are unidentified.

Presentation of a small statue of South American patriot San Martin to President Harry S. Truman from General Jose Humberto Sosa Molina, the Argentinian War Minister. The gift was made in the name of Juan Peron of Argentina. L to R: (in lobby of the White House) three unidentified reporters, Stanley Woodward, Chief of Protocol, State Department; Don Martin Luis Drago, Argentinian Minister to the United States; General Sosa Molina; and unidentified reporters.