Fountains

View of speakers and guests at the dedication for the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain in Washington, D.C. Pictured, rostrum: Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman (front row, left); Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (front row, second from left). All others unidentified.

An unidentified man flips the switch to turn on water to the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain at the dedication ceremony. Standing next to him is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Fred Vinson. (foreground, right). All others unidentified.

Statue pictured outside Buckingham Palace in London, England. 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).

Bess Truman poses by a fountain at the White House. From: Copied from photographs loaned to the Library by Mary Shaw Branton.

Black-and-white snapshot of the town fountain (which served as a laundry during World War I) at Rosairies-aux-Salines, France. The photo was taken in 1954 on a pilgrimage to World War I sites. From: James K. Monteith, Clayton, Missouri, 35th Division, 128th Field Artillery Regiment.