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View of Forbidden City from Top of Coal Hill, Peiping, China; U.S. Reparations Mission

2009-508
Accession Number
2009-508
2.5x4 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348550004
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Cities and towns
Reparations
HST Keywords
China - Peiping
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Description
Peiping and the "Forbidden City" from the top of Coal Hill. 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).
Date(s)
ca.
1946