'Left to right, David and Leon Yoder the first two children taken into the Welcome House family in 1949 present a locket of friendship to Nobel prize winner Pearl S. Buck, chairman of the Board of Welcome House...'
Pearl S. Buck sits on the floor with two small children and several books. Caption on reverse reads "Pearl Buck with two Welcome House children". The Welcome House was an adoption agency founded by Buck in 1949.
Caption reads: "Doylestown, PA., May 7 - Reunion at Welcome House - 'Granny' Walsh chats with some of the 270 former Welcome House children who attended the reunion on her farm near Doylestown, Pa., on the weekend. 'Granny,' better known as Pearl S. Buck, author, started Welcome House, an adoption agency, which has found American parents for over 300 children..."
