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A Photographic Tour through Pearl S. Buck's Life

 
  • The Sydenstricker family in China in 1894. From left to right: Absalom, Pearl, Edgar, Clyde, and Carie.
  • The Sydenstricker family in about 1901: Pearl, Absalom, Grace, and Carie. Behind them stands Wang, the children's governess
  • The Stulting family home, Hillsboro, West Virginia: Pearl Buck's birthplace.
  • The 1938 Nobel Prize ceremony: Enrico Fermi and Pearl S. Buck.
  • Pearl S. Buck at about the time of the Nobel Prize (1938).
  • Pearl Buck receiving the Nobel Prize from King Gustavus V in Stockholm, December, 1938.
  • Pearl Buck and a group of Chinese-American supporters during a break in her testimony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, May, 1943.
  • Pearl S. Buck in her study at Green Hill Farm in the 1940s.
  • Pearl S. Buck at Green Hills Farm in the 1960s.
  • Pearl S. Buck with a Welcome House child in the 1960s.
  • Pearl Buck and one of the Welcome House children in the late 1960s.
  • A page from Pearl Buck's FBI file.
  • Pearl Buck with other honorary degree recipients at Rutgers University, June, 1969. Front row, left to right: Rutgers president Mason Gross, John Archibald Wheeler, Pearl Buck, Henry Lewis, Germaine Bree. Back row: A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Phillip Alampi, Leonard Baskin, Norman Mailer.
  • Pearl S. Buck commemorative U.S. postage stamp (1985).