Electric power-plants

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the left. Photograph taken during his 1959 Russian trip. It may have been taken at the Elektrosila Turbine Plant in Leningrad, May 20, 1959. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Original negative.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the left. Photograph taken during his 1959 Russian trip. It may have been taken at the Elektrosila Turbine Plant in Leningrad, May 20, 1959. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Original negative.

Two Chinese soldiers look at blown-out side of sub-station for incoming power at Peipiao, Manchuria. It was damaged beyond repair by Chinese Communist explosives in May 1946. 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).

Outside view of power plant generating 30,000 KW, operated in connection with the Hsian Coal Mines in Hsian, Manchuria. At this plant only supplies were removed. 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).

Wide view of transformer station in Liaoyang, Manchuria. 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).

Manchu Iron Works Power Station Number 3 showing partial removals from boilers for the above turbo-generators. Coal feeding equipment, grates and some auxiliary equipment were removed by Soviets during occupation. Boiler tubes remain. 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).

Anshan Steel Works Power Plant showing former location of two 50 ton/hour boilers. Partial removals of about 50 percent were made on the eight remaining boilers. 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).

Manchu Iron Works Power Station Number 3, showing the former location of two 20,000 KW turbo-generators and control equipment. Everything was removed by Soviets during occupation, except one frequency changer visible at the far end of the room. 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).

Anshan Steel Works in Manchuria, one of the largest sub-stations in Asia. No removals were made here by Soviets during occupation. Twenty-foot thick concrete protection walls can be seen around three 50,000 KVA transformers. 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).

View from a hill overlooking the city of Anshan, Manchuria. The Manchurian Iron and Steel Company plant is on the skyline. 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).