Tokyo, Japan-A workman is shown handing out individual rations of the largest single amount of U.S. Food ever released in Japan 250 tons of wheat...
Outcaste Burakumin children in an etamura or eta town watching a Kamishibai puppet show, during the post-war Allied occupation of Japan, circa 1950.
The reconstruction of the Sanno Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, circa 1947. The hotel was largely destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II, and was...
Tokyo, Japan-Publication by the government of a White Paper on Housing has caused considerable comment by the press. It was revealed that more than 3...
Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings. The...
Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings. By...
German refugees rest as they reach the outskirts of Berlin after fleeing Lodz in Poland, December 1945. The small group of women and children are...
The one commodity getting through the Berlin blockade legally is potatoes. This Berlin couple is bringing several bags of them into the Western...
When the allies captured Naples, Italy, they found a great airplane factory far underground in a series of caves. This is one of the departments of...
Clean-cut young man standing in front a two-story house in Los Angeles sticks up his two middle fingers while smirking at the camera, circa 1948.
Workers waiting for employment, in the village of Castelmezzano , Italy, 1957. From the exhibition "Olives and bolts - farm laborers and factory...
Children watch CARE parcels being unloaded at a warehouse in Berlin, immediately after the lifting of the Berlin blockade, 18th May 1949. CARE stands...
Tokyo, Japan-A workman is shown measuring the amount of food handed out in individual rations of the largest single amount of U.S. Food ever released...
Line of people watch as a supply plane arrives to deliver food and other staples during the Berlin Airlift after World War II, West Germany.
People queue up outside a bureau de change in Neukölln, Berlin, in the US sector, March 1950. They are trying to exchange their East German Marks or...
Workers flatten the wasteground in front of the ruined Reichstag in West Berlin, in preparation for the 'Day of National Work' on May 1st, circa 1947.
German soldiers use their experience of trench-digging to construct the Berlin subway of U-Bahn, circa 1919. Here they are working in...
Man hands oranges to Italian children at a camp for displaced persons set up by the Allied Military Government in Florence, 1945. The children are...
Woman named as Ilse Krause, aged 70, is helping to rebuild the Technical University in Berlin which suffered extensive damage in the war, August 5th...
Woman going through bins to look for food in Berlin on December 12th, 1947. She reportedly said 'No food, no food'.
Group of displaced persons sit in their barracks after being accepted as political refugees and allowed to remain in the Western zone of Germany in...
Group of French boys on an American jeep during a holiday in the Black Forest, southwestern Germany, 1945. The children have been sent by the French...
Women in post-war Berlin, East Germany, form a 'chain gang' to pass pails of rubble to a rubble dump, to clear bombed areas in the Russian sector of...
Workwomen on strike, three of them holding up a sign which reads "Vogliamo Gli Aumenti" , Milan, Italy, 1954. From the exhibition "Olives and bolts -...
Residents of a shantytown built by the workers of a new Montecatini facility, on a lot set aside by the company , for this purpose, circa 1950. From...
Three women walk along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of...
Men and boys waiting in line at a postwar German soup kitchen in a market hall in Berlin, circa, 1920.
Housewives queue at a bakery in Paris during the period of food shortages following World War II, April 1947. Several bakeries have shut down owing...
Two Western visitors to Japan pose for a photograph, the man wearing a trench coat and hat and holding a camera, the woman wearing a Japanese kimono,...
Group of men hold and examine a large piece of wooden and metal equipment on a construction site in Japan, 1952. .
Large group of people, including several children, work to construction a home using traditional building materials, including bamboo, Japan, 1952. .
Policeman checks on the homeless people sleeping on the ground in Ueno Station, Tokyo, Japan, circa 1947.
Tokyo, Japan-At the recent "Rice Rally," staged by Japanese workers in front of the Imperial Palace, was Sarizo Nozaka , Secretary of the Communist...
Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, flanked by some of the men he led on the first bombing attack of the Japanese mainland on April 18 opens fifth postwar...
Warsaw, Poland- One of the most badly damaged cities in the world, Warsaw is now in the throes of a severe winter. Huge piles of rubble lie...
At a train station, a soldier lifts a woman off her feet as he kisses her, while a couple watches, 1940s.
Japanese man with bald head, robe and long beard smiling and holding the hands of his young daughter, who wears a traditional pink Kimono and Geta...
Japanese woman wearing apron, bending down and fixing the hair of a young girl who wears a red Kimono, Japan, 1943. .
Japanese official in uniform and two formally dressed Japanese men standing in front of an electrical pylon and leafing through a book, Japan, 1952. .
Missionaries at a seated dinner with Japanese congregants at a long rectangular table, serving plated salads, with red water glasses, a poster on the...
Japanese families walking down the embankment of a levee towards water, two young girls walking first, with older family members following, some...
Smoking wooden box, in a pit dug in the ground, during performance of a ritual, shadow of a fence in the foreground, Japan, 1952. .
Wedding at a missionary church, bridal party, bridge and groom standing in the front of the church with the pastor, high-angle view, attendees...
Pastor, female organist, and churchgoer signing hymns, the organist and pastor in mid song, the pastor holding a piece of sheet music, the organist...
Altar of a missionary church, with bouquets of flowers, an open bible, and a sign reading In Remembrance of Me, Japan, 1952. .
