Women

Three Japanese women shop from outdoor merchant stalls on the Ginza 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).

Japanese waitresses who cared for Reparations Mission, posed standing on an arched bridge in the gardens of the Mitsui Club where the Reparations Mission stayed 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).

Sepia-tone, head-and-shoulders portrait of Virginia Willock Wallace, Bess Truman's grandmother. From: Truman Home.

Lovely head and shoulders portrait of Madge Gates Wallace, mother of Bess Truman. She is probably in her thirties. Taken at the same time as photograph 87-136.

Bess Wallace as a young woman, seated on the grass in her long, fancy dress. She is frowning slightly. From: Truman house.

Portrait of Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Wallace as a young woman, wearing a large brimmed hat with two large hatpins.

Sepia-toned, head-and-shoulders portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a maple-leaf pin. The portrait came from the studio of Jean Raeburn, New York - Quantico - U.S.M.C. From: Truman home.

Barbara Pauley (right), Edwin Pauley's wife, and other unidentified women look at on Ed Pauley's testimony before the "Commodity Speculation" hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. Senate.

The pilots and their wives. Major Ward Cory, the Chief Pilot (back row, at right) and Major John Brown, the Assistant Chief Pilot (back row, center) are pictured. 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).

Margaret Truman in a White House broadcast for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes). Seated, left to right: Lady Inverchapel, Margaret Truman, Roberta (Mrs. Fred) Vinson. Standing, left to right: Lady Balfour, Mrs. John Baker, and Mrs. Ralph Edwards.