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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Group Photograph of the President's Party, Key West, Florida

Members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party are posing from a group photograph outside the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: John R. Steelman, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, William Hassett. Second row, left to right: Stephen Spingarn, General Robert Landry, Admiral Robert Dennison, Stanley Woodward, Press Secretary Charles Ross, General Harry Vaughan, General Wallace Graham and David Niles.

President Truman receives word of railroad strike settlement during speech to Joint Session of Congress

Leslie Biffle (left), Secretary of the Senate, interrupts President Harry S. Truman's address before a Joint Session of Congress to hand him a note telling of settlement of the railroad strike. At the time, the President was asking for unprecedented powers to deal with the labor situation. Donor: New York Herald Tribune.

President Truman at the 50th Anniversary of the American Movie Theater at the White House

President Harry S. Truman with movie stars in connection with the 50th Anniversary of the American Movie Theater at the White House. Front row, L to R: Elizabeth Taylor, Adolph Zukor (Chairman of the Board, Paramount Pictures), President Truman, Mrs. Patricia Scott, Joyce O'Hara (Acting President, Motion Picture Associations) and Debbie Reynolds. Second Row: Louise Albritton, Arthur Mayer, Arthur Arthur, Julian Brylawski, Virginia Kellogg, and Randolph Scott.