Physical Description: .62 Linear Feet(10 folders)
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Contents
This series contains three scrapbooks: US Reparations Mission to the Far East and Europe, US Reparations Mission to Japan
and the unlabeled scrapbook US Reparations Mission Asia. The scrapbooks contains photographs taken from late 1945 to mid-1946
during trips by staff members of the US Reparations Mission. The scrapbooks contain pictures of Japan, China, Korea, Manchuria,
Germany, Britain, France, the Philippines, Egypt, and Guam.
The US Reparations Mission to the Far East and Europe scrapbook contains pictures taken during trips by the staff of the US
Reparations Mission to Japan, China, the Philippines, and Guam. The scrapbook includes a roster of the staff of the US Reparations
Mission. There are also two letters from Edwin W. Pauley, the US Representative on the Allied Reparations Commission, to Hurndall
and a certificate of commendation for Hurndall.
Items of note in the US Reparations Mission to the Far East and Europe scrapbook include pictures of the war crimes trials
in Tokyo and Nuremberg following the Second World War. There are also pictures from a "Jewish Displaced Persons" camp in Furth,
Germany and pictures showing the damage in Germany following World War II.
Items of note in the US Reparations Mission to Japan scrapbook include pictures showing the destruction in Manila following
the Second World War, pictures of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, and "street scenes" in Tokyo.
Pictures in the unlabeled scrapbook US Reparations Mission Asia include images that document the Soviet removal of equipment
from industrial plants in Manchuria.
Scans of the original scrapbooks and accompanying captions are digitized (see Instance for folder location).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
World War (1939-1945) -- Reparations
War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
War crime trials -- Japan -- Tokyo
World War (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945) -- China
World War (1939-1945) -- China -- Manchuria
World War (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Refugees
Holocaust survivors -- History -- 20th Century
World War (1939-1945) -- Photography