Wells

Bucket on rope for drawing water from well in Korea. This was in a group of pictures relating to doing a census in Korea.

Korean women drawing water from a well in an area visited by the trial census takers.

Containers for holding water near a well in Korea. This photo is from among a group of photos relating to census takers in Korea.

Local people drawing water for a well in a Korean village visited by the trial census takers.

A well and an open structure at Maricao, Puerto Rico. This is a park-like area.

From left to right, Mary Ethel Noland, Nellie Noland, and Harry S. Truman standing next to a well at the Truman farm home in Grandview, Missouri. Harry is wearing what looks like a straw boater hat.

WAC Private First Class Katherine T. Egner of Portland, Oregon, uses a bucket to draw water from a well near her bivouac area in Italy. Sher serves as a typist in ordnance as part of the Fifth Army, Sparanise Area, Italy.

View of a well in an unidentified location in India. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by American Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup and party.

Two unidentified Indian men drawing water from a well in an unidentified location. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by the United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party.

View of area described as the Well of Moses where Moses was supposed to have found sweet water for his followers after crossing the Red Sea. Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article illustration. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.