Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982

Mrs. Harry S. Truman

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Portrait of Bess Wallace (Mrs. Harry S.) Truman. From the Kansas City Star.

Judge Harry S. Truman at home

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Judge Harry S. Truman (right) at home with his wife, Bess Wallace Truman (seated in chair) and daughter Margaret. They are in the living room of the Truman home. From: Kansas City Star.

Harry S. Truman, Bess and Margaret

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(From right to left) Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, and daughter Margaret (at the age of 10), at a dinner when Truman was Senator-elect.

Independence High School Senior Class photo, 1901

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Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace, and Charles Ross, among others, posing for high school graduating class photo, Independence, Missouri, 1901. Back row: Henry Chiles; Elmer Twyman; William Lloyd Garrett; Harry Truman; Will Long; Myrtle Cronkhite; Laura Ford; Mary Anderson; Gertrude Dixon; Laura Kingsbury. Third row: Crawford Compton; Leura Walters; Katie Krey; Gertrude Reyner. Second row: Tasker P. Taylor; Louretta Meador; Minnie Carpenter; Grace Crandall; Mary Taylor; James T. Brown; Mary Chinn; Itaska Atkinson; Bertha Roberts; Bess Wallace.

Color group photograph of the Truman family and others at Key West, Florida

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President Harry S. Truman, his family, and his staff on vacation in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: Harold Enarson; John Steelman; Bess Wallace Truman; President Truman; Margaret Truman; William Hassett; Irving Perlmeter. Back row, left to right: Eben Ayers; David Stowe; Wallace Graham; Harry Vaughan; Joseph Short; Robert Dennison; Robert Landry; Philleo Nash; Charles Jackson. Original is in color and oversized. This image is available to be ordered in color.

Picnic With Harry S. Truman's Stafford Automobile

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Picnic near the Little Blue River with Harry S. Truman's Stafford automobile. Left to right: Natalie Ott Wallace (Mrs. Frank G. Wallace); Emma P. (Mrs. William) Southern; Frank Gates Wallace; Bess Wallace; and Harry S. Truman. For better photo of same see 79-20. Identification by Miss Ethel Noland. Photo was probably taken by George Wallace.