Funeral rites and ceremonies

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) and General Harry Vaughan (second from left) are shown as they arrive by car for the funeral of General George C. Marshall. All others are unidentified.

Street scene with rickshaws and people on foot, described as "Peiping Funeral" referring to Peiping, China. It is winter and snowy. From album created by Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

In Calcutta, India, an Indian boy lies dead, covered by cloth, on sidewalk in front of Great Eastern Hotel. 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).

Peiping, China, Chinese funeral. Taoists monks precede the coffin and mourners in white follow. 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).

Peiping, China, Chinese funeral. Taoists Monks precede the coffin and mourners in white follow. 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).

Jacqueline Kennedy stands with her children, John and Caroline (center, partially obscured), President Lyndon Johnson (center left) and other mourners outside the White House on the day of President John F. Kennedy's funeral. Others are unidentified.

Pall bearers put the casket of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt into a hearse during his funeral ceremony.

The funeral ceremony for Franklin Roosevelt at the burial site in Hyde Park, New York. President Harry S. Truman is on the left in the background, holding his hat in his hand. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (right) and her daughter Anna Roosevelt are the two ladies in black in the foreground. All others are unidentified.

From left to right: James Byrnes, President Harry S. Truman, and Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace at Franklin Roosevelt's funeral service.

Unidentified man enters the White House during the funeral ceremony for Franklin Roosevelt.