Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

President Harry S. Truman (center) with Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington (left) and Washington State Governor Monrad Wallgren as they pose for pictures in the garden of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. In the background on the left is Special Counsel Clark Clifford. All others are unidentified. President Truman and members of his staff and advisors were in Key West for a post-election vacation.

President Harry S. Truman (standing, right, in light shirt) gives a press conference in the garden of the Little White House while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Photographers and reporters gathered around are all unidentified. The man partly obscured by Truman, getting ready to stand up, is Press Secretary Charles Ross. Standing on the right in the striped shirt is Washington State Governor Mon Wallgren.

President Harry S. Truman (standing, center foreground) gives a press conference in the garden of the Little White House while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Reporters and photographers who are gathered in front of him are unidentified. Seated second from the left is Press Secretary Charles Ross.

President Harry S. Truman (front left) walks with Senator and Vice President-elect Alben Barkley, followed by Leslie Biffle (left) and William J. Bray (right) at the Naval Air Station in Key West, Florida. President Truman and his advisors were in Key West for a post-election vacation.

From left to right, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Harry S. Truman and their daughter, Margaret Truman pose for pictures in the southwest garden of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. They were in Key West for a post-election vacation.

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, in civilian clothes) holds an informal inspection of the detachment of Marines that guarded the Little White House in Key West, Florida while he stayed there on vacation. He is accompanied by Major Harold A. Hayes. All other Marines are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (standing, right) gives a press conference in the garden of the Little White House while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Photographers and reporters gathered around are all unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (center) participates in the mock reception of Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (far right) and Press Secretary Charles Ross (left of Connelly) to Key West, Florida by unidentified person. Also present are (from left to right) Assistant to the President John R. Steelman, governor of Washington Monrad Wallgren, and writer Jonathan Daniels. Truman and his advisers and staff were in Key West for a post-election vacation.

Naval men and officers "manned the rail" along Caroline Street after the President Harry S. Truman's motorcade enters naval air station on the way to the Little White House in Key West, Florida. President Truman traveled to Key West for a post-election vacation. Truman in seated in the left back seat of the first car. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, second from left) greets an unidentified naval officer while Miss Margaret Truman (right) looks on. The President had escorted Miss Truman and her mother, Mrs. Bess Truman (not pictured) to the dock where they would embark on a day of fishing off Key West on board the ship Big Wheel. The family was in Key West for a post-election vacation.