Tombs

Interior view, exact location not given. W. Averell Harriman and his wife Marie are standing in the center of the photograph. Others in view not identified but may be interpreters. Believed to have been taken in Uzbekistan while the Harrimans were touring the Soviet Union in 1959. May be in Tashkent or Samarkand. According to Thayer's account of the trip, while in Samarkand they did visit "at the Shah Zindah which contains a series of magnificent tiled tombs..." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. arles W. Thayer accompanied W.

Interior view, exact location not given. W. Averell Harriman and his wife Marie are standing in the center of the photograph. Believed to have been taken in Samarkand, Uzbekistan while the Harriman's were touring the Soviet Union in 1959. According to Thayer's account of the trip, while in Samarkand they did visit "at the Shah Zindah which contains a series of magnificent tiled tombs..." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959.

Postcard of the Blue Mosque, or Shrine of Hazrat Ali, in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan. It is one of the reputed burial places of Amir Sher Ali Khan.

Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson (right) watches as Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (left) places a wreath on Abraham Lincoln's tomb in honor of his birthday. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

French President Vincent Auriol at Mount Vernon, laying a wreath at the tomb of President George Washington. The three men on the left are, from left to right: French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, and President Auriol. All others are unidentified.

Napoleon sleeps here- Paris, France. Dome de Les Invalides, interior view of tomb. 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).

Napoleon sleeps here- Paris, France. View of exterior of Dome de Les Invalides. 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).

Norm Taylor, member of Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, outside the Manchu Tombs at Peiling, Mukden, Manchuria. 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Aerial photograph of Taj Mahal in India, 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Photo of a grave stone in a small cemetery in the town of Elgin, Minnesota, about 18 miles from Rochester. On the base of the tombstone is engraved the following words: "None of us ever voted for Roosevelt or Truman." From: Eugene W. Cutshall.