Automobiles

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman seen on the right. Man opposite him is not identified nor is the exact location. An automobile can be seen on the road just behind them. Location may be in the Sverdlovsk, Russia area. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman seen on the right. Man opposite him is not identified nor is the exact location. An automobile can be seen on the road just behind them. Location may be in the Sverdlovsk, Russia area. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.

President Harry S. Truman waves from the back seat of a motor car at "Drake's Seat" overlooking Magens Bay in the Virgin Islands, on his way to Emancipation Park, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas. On his right is Governor William Hastie. Others are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

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 stands in his Lincoln convertible automobile and waves at the welcoming Key West, Florida crowd on his way to the Little White House as Captain Cecil Adell sits in the center. Naval signal flags flutter in the breeze over the street. President Truman is in Key West for a post-election vacation. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (standing) joins Captain Cecil Adell (seated, right) and Honorable A. Maitland Adams, Mayor of Key West, Florida (seated, left) in a car in preparation for traveling to the Little White House in Key West. President Truman is in Key West for a post-election vacation. The presidential plane Independence is in the background. All others are unidentified.

In the back seat of the car are Senator J. Howard McGrath, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, (right) and Mr. William M. Boyle, Assistant to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, (second from right) after they arrive in Key West, Florida from Washington, D.C. They were met at Boca Chica Airfield by Naval Aide to the President Captain Robert Dennison (front seat of car). Their airplane can be seen in the background. They flew to Key West to join President Harry S. Truman on a post-election vacation. All others are unidentified.

Onlookers lined the streets in Key West, Florida, as the Presidential motorcade travels to The Little White House for vacation. President Harry S. Truman is sitting in the back of the open car at the front. All others are unidentified.

From left to right, Senator and Vice President-Elect Alben Barkley, Mr. Leslie Biffle and Captain Robert Dennison depart the Boca Chica airfield in an open car on the way to meet President Harry S. Truman at the Little White House in Key West, Florida. They are joining President Truman and the rest of his party for a post-election vacation.

Melvin D. Hildreth, general chairman of the 1949 Inaugural Committee (left), accepts a new Packard automobile from Sam Broden (right), zone manager of the Packard Motor Company. The car was loaned to the Inaugural Committee by the Packard Motor Company as a personal vehicle for Mr. Hildreth.