Boys

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (right) helps an unidentified young boy plant a buckeye tree during Ohio's Arbor Day celebration at Hains Point in East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. Also pictured, Ohio Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Major Louis Frinchi (left) S-3 Officer, 1st Medium Tank Battalion (Patton), 34th Armor, explains the operation of the M-48-A1 Tank to Bruce McCurdy (left, partly obscured), Russell McCurdy (fifth from right), and Mr. Wells McCurdy (third from right) during their visit to Fort Lewis, Washington. Others are unidentified.

(L - R) Major General Louis W. Truman meets with Bruce McCurdy, Russell McCurdy and Mr. Wells McCurdy, Vice-President of the Northgate Corporation, Seattle, Washington. The meeting took place in General Truman's office at Fort Lewis, Washington.

From left to right, Mrs. John D. Williams, Major General Louis W. Truman, Rocky and Tiger Williams, and Sergeant John D. Williams, Company B, First Brigade, 12th Infantry at Fort Lewis, Washington. Rocky and Tiger Williams are wearing boxing gloves and holding a certificate.

Major General Louis W. Truman (center) with Rocky and Tiger Williams, who are dressed in boxing attire and standing in a fighting stance. Rocky and Tiger's father, John D. Williams, is a sergeant stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.

First Lady Bess W. Truman (center) accepts a certificate from an unidentified man during her meeting with Michael Danna of South Ozone Park, New York (left), the 1952-1953 Muscular Dystrophy Poster Boy. Danna's visit marked the official opening of the Muscular Dystrophy Appeal Campaign. Danna holds in his lap a cocker spaniel named Buttons, Jr., his gift to the Trumans.

First Lady Bess W. Truman (right) meets with Michael Danna of South Ozone Park, New York (left), the 1952-1953 Muscular Dystrophy Appeal Poster Boy. Danna holds a cocker spaniel named Buttons, Jr., his gift to the Truman family.

First Lady Bess W. Truman (right) visits with Michael Danna of South Ozone Park, New York (left), the 1952-1953 Muscular Dystrophy Appeal Campaign Poster Boy. Mrs. Truman pets a cocker spaniel named Buttons, Jr., Danna's gift to the Trumans.

Holding a bat, the Navy "bat boy" poses for a photo at the Army-Navy game at Annapolis, Maryland, attended by President Harry S. Truman. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a young David Wallace, Bess Truman's nephew From: Truman Home.