Boats and boating

Full view of a small U.S. Navy cruiser shown identified as USN 39. Photograph taken from another boat. River and location not given. The American flag can be seen on each craft.

View of an unidentified young man tending a cow while on board U.S. Navy riverboat 1001. Identified as an official Navy photo, U.S. Navy Rhine River Patrol AP0633, by Wanowski, EN2, USN/LSU.

Snapshot of Edward R. Murrow (left) and former President Harry S. Truman on a fishing boat in Islamorada, Florida, where Mr. Murrow is going to interview Mr. Truman for the "See It Now" television show. The man at right is unidentified.

Industry at Work (fishing boat in Tokyo harbor). 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).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley and unidentified staff member on a boat. 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).

Peiping, China, view of Marble Boat of Summer Palace. 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).

Chinese living on "houseboats." 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).

Unidentified yacht in drydock.

An escort boat travels alongside the U.S.S. Williamsburg where President Harry S. Truman and his party enjoy a cruise. From: Truman Home.

Snapshot of (from left to right) Margaret Truman, Senator Harry S. Truman, and Bess W. Truman on a ferry boat. Woman on the extreme left is unidentified. Written in Margaret's handwriting on the back of the photo: "When Dad was still on the Hill - about '38 or '39." Similar to 83-90-13 and 83-90-14.