Farms

Aerial view of Kyoto, Japan showing snow-covered rice fields. This photo was taken while Vernice Anderson traveled with Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup on his mission to the Far East.

A view of Millstone Farm near Burke, Virginia, showing the main house in the background, a barn, and a shelter house where service men are lining up for a buffet lunch, some in swimming gear. The party is one of a series held on Sunday afternoons for enlisted men, sponsored by the American Newspaper Women's Club of Washington, D.C., as part of "Operation Homefront." From: Truman Home. From scrapbook on Operation Homefront.

Members of the armed services from Fort Meade and Belvoir, some in swimming trunks, relax on the porch and lawn of the Millstone Farm near Burke, Virginia, during a Sunday afternoon party sponsored by the American Newspaper Women's Club of Washington, D.C., as part of "Operation Homefront." The party, including a buffet supper, swimming and dancing, is one of a series of parties held on Sunday afternoons by the Club for enlisted men. The identities of the men are unknown. From: Truman Home.

Members of the armed forces, some in swimming trunks, line up at a table outside a shelter house at Millstone Farm near Burke, Virginia, where a buffet lunch is being served. The party, including swimming, is one in a series of parties sponsored by the American Newspaper Women's Club of Washington, D.C., held on Sunday afternoons as part of "Operation Homefront." From: Truman Home. From scrapbook on Operation Homefront.

Rural Scenes 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).

Rural scenes 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).

Rural scenes 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).

Rural scenes 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).

Rural hut 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).

Scenes taken from the Pauley Special Train in North Korea showing children and rural background. 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).