Women domestics

Chief Steward Arthur S. Prettyman and two housemaids in the Laranjeiras Palace in Rio de Janeiro. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Exterior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman seated on the right, talking with a group of native women and a child. They appear to be seated in a garden area. Exact location not identified. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.

Exterior view with diplomat and journalist W. Averell Harriman on the right and shown shaking the hand of a native woman. Other women and a child are also in view as well as two other people. Exact location not identified. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Exterior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman bent over in the center of the image and talking with a group of native women and a child. They appear to be seated in a garden area by a building. Others with Harriman are not named. Exact location not identified. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Exterior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman bent over and talking with a group of native women and a child. They appear to be seated in a garden area by a building. Others with Harriman are not named. Exact location not identified. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Ms. Vietta Garr, cook to former President Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Bess W. Truman, on the porch of the Truman home in Independence, Missouri. Used in the book Mr. Citizen.

Exterior view of James (Jimmy) D. Thayer, son of Charles and Cynthia Thayer, as a small child posed with a dog and unidentified woman, possibly a maid.

Japanese waitresses who cared for Reparations Mission, posed standing on an arched bridge in the gardens of the Mitsui Club where the Reparations Mission stayed in Tokyo, Japan. 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).