Automobiles

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (on right in back seat) riding in an automobile with three unidentified men.

The Truman family in a car. Written on the back of the photo is "Leaving for Washington," presumably from Independence. Margaret Truman is climbing into the backseat. Bess Truman is on the passenger side, front seat, and Senator Harry S. Truman can barely be seen in the driver's seat. They appear to be at the back of the Truman home. From: Truman home.

Former President Harry S. Truman standing in front of the Truman Library, shortly before its dedication. Truman's car, a 1957 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer, is parked out in front of the Library.

Group of picnickers near the Little Blue River, seated in and gathered around Harry S. Truman's Stafford car. From left to right: George Wallace, May Wallace, Frank Wallace, Natalie Wallace, Fred Wallace (seated on the running board); Mrs. Emma Southern, Harry S. Truman, Caroline Southern, Dorothy Patterson (cousin of May Wallace), Edwin Patterson (cousin of May Wallace). From: Truman Home, from an album entitled "Postal Souvenirs."

The back of an automobile, with 1948 New York license plates, decorated show support for the Democrats in the 1948 election. The photo is autographed: "To my good friend Vic Messall with kindest personal regards, Dan McCarty."

Margaret Truman, wrapped in a blanket against the snow and cold, sits in an antique car with an unknown man behind the steering wheel. Note the steering wheel is on the right-hand side. From: Truman Home.

Edwin Pauley standing by car at the Anshan Steel Work in China. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

President Harry S. Truman rides in a red convertible in a motorcade in unidentified town, probably during the 1948 campaign. This photograph is from original slide SL2520.

Edwin Pauley kneels behind a 1956 Chrysler 300B 2-door hardtop sport coupe with an "HST" license plate.

Soviet soldiers in process of removing industrial equipment from Manchurian factories. Picture copied from a set furnished by Chinese authorities, during the U.S. Reparations Mission. (Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47, the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).