Children

School children under their desks during a Duck and Cover drill for an atomic attack. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

Berlin Airlift plane flies low over people as it delivers food to Berlin, Germany after the Soviet Blockade. There are children in the crowd. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit.

First Lady Bess Truman (second from right) and Margaret Truman (right) contribute to the fight against infantile paralysis by dropping their dimes into the Missouri bottle outside the Capitol Theater. With them on the left is Richard Dobson, who recovered from infantile paralysis last year. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

Color photo of the two Chinese children seen sitting on the steps in photo 2009-2833 in Chungking. See also photo 2009-2838. This was taken during Edwin Locke, Jr.'s third mission to China.

A group of people pose, including a child. Assistant Secretary for the Department of Commerce, Clarence Osthagen, is on the left. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer is fourth from the left. The others are unidentified.

Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer and Assistant Secretary Clarence Osthagen (right)greeting unidentified people in a meeting room, including a child.

President Harry S. Truman (right) is receiving a poppy from Margaret Ann Forde of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of a disabled veteran. The "buddy poppy" fundraising drive is sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). This photograph is from the album "Mr. President, His Family and Friends."

A large group of unidentified women of the Democratic Women's Club welcomes President Harry S. Truman to Lincoln, Nebraska. Some unidentified boys and girls are also present.

Snapshot of a child on a burro with a man, both unidentified, in the Azores. Edwin Locke kept this photo from his brief visit to the Azores on his way home from his third mission to China.

The Carmine Briguglio, Sr. family tours the Harry S. Truman Library. The children are looking at the "Buffalo Mantel" removed from the White House during the 1949-1952 renovation.