Farmers

Exterior group photo with W. Averell Harriman standing third from the right with other unidentified individuals. Thought to have been taken while the Harriman party were touring in Uzbekistan. According to Thayer's typewritten account, he did visit Zangata and a cotton farm near Taskent. 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).

Early photo of the Grandview farmhouse of the Truman family. In front of the house, left to right: Martha Ellen Truman, Harry Truman's mother; Harriet Louisa Gregg Young, Truman's grandmother; and a young Harry S. Truman in farm clothes. Same as 83-126, but better image. From: Copy of original photo lent to the Truman Library by Martha Ann Swoyer, daughter of Vivian Truman.

Unidentified men harvest wheat from the Fruitland project on irrigated Navajo lands south of Farmington, New Mexico.

Members of the Michigan Future Farmers of America Poultry Team standing on the north side of the Truman Home in Independence, Missouri.

Rural people 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).

Reparations Mission meeting with farmers 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).

Reparations Mission meeting with farmers. 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).

Reparations Mission meeting with farmers. 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).

A group of men work the cabbage patch at the Displaces Persons Farm, formerly owned by "Jew Baiter" Streicher, in Furth, Germany. 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).

Farm scene, showing an unidentified farm driving a team of mules, possibly plowing a field. From: George Smith, Agriculture Extension Service.