Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982

Bess Wallace at the age of thirteen years old. She is wearing an elaborate straw hat. From: Truman home.

Tennis players on the Park Avenue tennis court belonging to the Southern (May Wallace's) family. L to R: Jack Montague, Alden Millard, George Wallace, Bess Wallace, Mrs. Emma P. Southern, Caroline Southern, Dorothy Patterson, Natalie Wallace, Helena Crow, Frank Wallace, Edwin Patterson. From an album in the Truman house entitled "Postal Souvenirs."

Bess Wallace Truman on the porch of her family home at 219 North Delaware, holding baby Margaret Truman. This picture was taken the same year Margaret was born. From: Truman house.

Slightly blurred photo of Bess Wallace Truman ice-skating on a frozen pond. There is an unidentified lady to her left.

Photo taken of Bess Wallace Truman and Harry S. Truman during their courting days. They are seated among friends in a rowboat on the Little Blue River. L to R: Mrs. Emma P. Southern, mother of May Wallace, Bess Wallace (holding a fishing pole), Harry S. Truman, an unidentified man, and a young woman, probably Natalie Wallace. Others in the boat are unidentified. A letter to Bess from Harry, dated August 5, 1913, mentions preparing to go with her on a fishing trip on the Little Blue River. Copied from a photo album lent to the Truman Library by May Wallace.

Bess Wallace in a long dress and long gloves, leaning on a table. On July 23, 1906 she sent this oval-shaped photograph to William Bostian, who had been a neighbor and was the son of the Independence postmaster William Bostian. The inscription (which is on a separate sheet in the manuscript collection) says "I only hope you feel repaid for waiting so long, Bess, July the twenty-third, nineteen and six." Donor: Mrs. Ann Copeland, niece of William Bostian.

Harry S. Truman taking the oath of office at the White House after the death of President Roosevelt. From left to right: Philip B. Fleming, Public Works Administrator; John B.

Harry S. Truman taking the oath of office at the White House after the death of President Roosevelt. From left to right: Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor; Henry Stimson, Secretary of War; Henry Wallace, Secretary of Commerce; Julius Krug, War Production Board Administrator; James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture; Francis McNamee, Department Chairman, War Manpower Commission; Francis Biddle, Attorney General; Harry S.

President Harry S. Truman and others in car arriving in Washington, D. C. after the 1948 election. Back, from left: President Truman, J. Howard McGrath, Alben Barkley. Front, from left: Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mrs. Marian Barkley Truitt. Inscribed: "Good luck Mr. President! Yours very sincerely Steve Zweig, Washington, D. C., November 5, 1948" Same as 58-288.

The Truman family and Barkley family on the steps of the White House the day after the election. From left to right: Vice-President Alben Barkley, his daughter Mrs. Marian Barkley Truitt, Margaret Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, and President Harry S. Truman.