Shopping

View of a shop window in Washington, D.C., showing hats for sale and exhibiting a poster advertising Margaret Truman's latest concert and a sign "Suits pressed while you wait." A Christmas wreath in the window pinpoints the season. From: Truman Home.

Merchants in Seoul, Korea, during the U.S. Reparations trip. 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).

Edwin Pauley with U.S. Consulate attache Brinton in Cairo, Egypt. 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).

Edwin Pauley (center), George Schulgen, and Ernest L. Klein shopping in Cairo, Egypt 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).