Missions

Pauley Mission members William Mayer, H. M. Thorne and Norman Taylor standing on covered porch at the Harbin Yacht Club on the banks of the Sungari, Manchuria, China. 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).

The teaching staff of a mission in the Andes Mountains in Colombia, South America. This photo was sent to President Harry S. Truman by J. C. Holden, Superintendent of the mission school, pictured sixth from the left. All others are unidentified.