Clocks and watches

This is a view of The Zytglogge, the famous clock tower in Bern, Switzerland. Richard Beckman, right, an agent with the United States Army Criminal Investigation Detachment Agent during World War II stands next to an unknown American soldier.

Interior view of the living room at the Little White House in Key West, Florida. A grandfather clock is in view in the foyer. Photograph was taken while Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews and his wife Mary were visiting from February 9-17, 1950.

A photograph of a clock tower in an unidentified European city, probably Switzerland. Probably taken while E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. worked in Europe.

A photograph of a mechanical clock on the outside of a building in Bern, Switzerland. Taken while E. Clifton Daniel traveled in Europe.

Big Ben (clock) in London, England. 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).

La Grosse Horloge. The big clock in Rouen, France, after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.