Schools

Image of a partially constructed building that is the future site of the Vinh Long Vocational school in Vietnam.

School building and ice plant on the island of Corregidor, Philippines. Students and adults are unidentified.

An unidentified seminary in Manila, Philippines. Donor: John Paxton.

An unidentified seminary in Manila, Philippines. Donor: John Paxton.

Ruins of a primary school in Batangas Province, Philippines where Japanese assembled hostages before executing them. Donor: John Paxton

A crowd stands to welcome President Harry S. Truman (on stage, shaking hands, left) to the stage during a speaking engagement at a local high school in Kalispell, Montana. President Truman stopped there during a campaign trip through the western United States. Also pictured on stage: Margaret Truman (first row, second from left); Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (first row, third from left); and Congressman Mike Mansfield (first row, second from right). All others unidentified.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman greets an unidentified girl while visiting a school for children of oil workers at the Salamanca Refinery in Guanajuato, Mexico. All others unidentified.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (left) visits a school for children of oil plant workers at the Salamanca Refinery in Guanajuato, Mexico. All others unidentified.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (center) talks with two unidentified children at a school on the Salamanca Refinery in Guanajuato, Mexico. All others unidentified.

Attorney General Francis Biddle (center) and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (second from right) pose with unidentified men in front of the National Training School for Boys in Washington, D.C. They visited the school on this date with King Peter II of Yugoslavia (not pictured). All people in background unidentified.