Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Formal color head-and-shoulders portrait of President Harry S. Truman, wearing a blue tie with diamonds and squares, his Masonic pin, and a plain white pocket square. See 97-2011 for a black and white version.

The last family to immigrate to the United States under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 visits President Harry S. Truman in the Rose Garden of the White House. Beate Zylka (3) was a little shy as she approached President Truman. Her sister, Ursula Zylka (6), is mostly obscured by the president. Their mother, Ursula Zylka, stands next to the president. Their father, Josef Zylka, stands next to Mrs. Zylka. John W. Gibson, Chairman of the Displaced Persons Commission, stands behind Mr. and Mrs. Zylka.

A family of displaced persons, the last to immigrate to America under the DP Act of 1948, is welcomed by President Harry S. Truman in the Rose Garden of the White House. They are Josef Zylka (2nd from right), a Polish National and former slave laborer, his wife Ursula Zylka, and their two daughters Ursula Zylka (6), and Beate Zylka (3). John W. Gibson, Chairman of the Displaced Persons Commission, stands behind Mrs. Zylka. Others are unidentified.

Surrounded by members of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc. (CARE), President Harry S. Truman makes a statement to promote famine relief in Europe in the Rose Garden at the White House. Front row, left to right: Major General Glen Edgerton; President Truman; executive director of CARE, Lt. General William N. Haskell. The men in the back row are not specifically identified, but according to the president's appointment book Walter A. Joyce and Tom Burland also attended this event.

In a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House, President Harry S. Truman hands a check for $1500 to Lt. General William N. Haskell to pay for 100 CARE packages of food to be sent to 10 heads of state in Europe for distribution among the hungry. Haskell is Executive Director of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc. (CARE) a non-profit organization whose purpose is to supplement the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and act as a means for the whole country to provide a hungry person in Europe with food enough for three or four weeks.

In a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House, President Harry S. Truman hands a check for $1500 to Lt. General William N. Haskell to pay for 100 CARE packages of food to be sent to 10 heads of state in Europe for distribution among the hungry. Haskell is Executive Director of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc. (CARE) a non-profit organization whose purpose is to supplement the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and act as a means for the whole country to provide a hungry person in Europe with food enough for three or four weeks. 

From left to right in backseat of car, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman, and Vice President Henry A. Wallace seated before a bank of microphones in an open car at Union Station in Washington, D.C., a few days after the election. All others unidentified. 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds up his right hand as he takes the oath of office during his fourth Inauguration at the White House. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone administers the oath at far left, Vice President Harry S. Truman smiles at left, and Roosevelt's son, Colonel James Roosevelt, stands in uniform at right.

President Harry S. Truman, John D. Rockefeller III, and another unidentified person walk away from the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

The official party celebrating Canadian-American Day gathers in the Great Hall of the Wren Building at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Left to right: Virginia Governor William Tuck, unidentified, W&M president John Edwin Pomfret, Senator Alben Barkley, Governor General of Canada Alexander of Tunis, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, 2 unidentified, President Har