George Skadding

Shown left to right in this photo taken at the White House are: Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes; Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal; President Harry S. Truman; Philippine President Sergio Osmena; Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius; and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.

President Truman poses for photographers after the V-E Day broadcast announcing the surrender of Germany to the nation from the White House in this 11 x 14 photo.

President Harry S. Truman is shown receiving a haircut from Frank Spina in the President's office in the Federal Courthouse on his twenty-sixth wedding anniversary. Spina has been the President's barber for the past twenty-eight years. This 11 x 14 photo is similar to 66-3315.

President Harry S. Truman at the podium, addressing the Plenary Session of the United Nations San Francisco Conference. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and Alger Hiss are seated behind the President. This is an 11 x 14 superior print of 71-1195.

From Honolulu's famed Pali, President Truman, using his binoculars, views Kaneohe Naval Air Station, where Japanese bombs fell on December 7, 1941. The President had just returned from his historic meeting with Gen. MacArthur on Wake Island. This is an 11 x 14 photo.

President Truman, dressed in what he calls his seashore seagull shirt, relaxes at his first press conference in three weeks at the "Winter White House" in Key West. This 10 x 14 photo shows the President surrounded by his staff.

A superior 11 x 14 full length photo of President Truman and General Dwight Eisenhower. President Truman extends a polite hand to usher Eisenhower inside the White House door. The General went there directly on arriving in the U.S. and came back to next day to receive a fourth Oak Leaf cluster for his DSM.

An 11 x 12 photo showing President Truman (left) looking on, as United Mine Workers Chief John L. Lewis puts his signature to a new work contract under which he will order his men back to their jobs. Center is Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, administrator of the government seized soft coal mines, who announced the contract agreement.

President Harry S. Truman (second from left) and First Lady Bess Truman (left) admire an 18th century musical clock and two golden candelabras presented to the President in a ceremony on the North Portico of the White House by French Ambassador Henri Bonnet (2nd from right) and his wife (right). They were acquired by French President Vincent Auriol for use in the renovated White House and will be placed in the Red Room.