Streets

View of the main thoroughfare of Berlin, Germany, the Berlinerstrasse. This picture shows the women civilians of Berlin as they pass the rubble of the ruined buildings off the streets, back into ruins by a bucket chain. All people are unidentified.

A picture of the first American tanks of the Second Armored Division, United States Army, to make their appearance in the heart of Berlin, Germany. Bombed-out buildings and crowds of people can be seen on both sides of the street.

A view of an American Sherman tank of the Second Armored Division, sitting on the corner of Potsdamer Strasse near the center of Berlin, Germany, after the Allied forces took control of the city. Bombed buildings surround the tank as people walk by.

A view of an American Sherman tank of the Second Armored Division, sitting on the corner of Potsdamer Strasse near the center of Berlin, on occupation duty.

View of a village not identified but believed to be Wadi Halfa situated on the Nile River in extreme northern Sudan. Image includes people and a view of street life. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

The street of Pall Mall located in Westminster, London, England. The street is decorated for the visit of the President of France, Vincent Auriol. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party.

Group of children in school uniform intermingled with soldiers and either watching or participating in an event. Identification in foreign language. Believed to be Prague, Czechoslovakia. Identified as "Svet V Obrazech, No. 18, Prag, 9. Mai 1953 (Czech illustrated).

View includes tanks and soldiers on the street participating in a parade to honor the Hungarian National Holiday. Identification with photograph reads: "Tank parade on the occasion of the Hungarian National Holiday 4 April 52."

Exterior, front angle view of an automobile parked along the curb at a unknown location. Man on a bicycle can be seen on the sidewalk behind the car.

View of a street in downtown Cairo, Egypt with the stores Sinclair's English Pharmacy and Anglo-American Bookstore. 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).