Dinners and dining

President Harry S. Truman (center) shakes hands with two other unidentified men attending the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C.

View of the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. during the 1952 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner.

President Harry S. Truman (right) and First Lady Bess W. Truman (second from right) being greeted upon their arrival at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. They were attending the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. They are greeted by Frank McKinney, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (left) and Eda (Mrs. Charles) Brannan, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture.

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, second from right) and his wife, First Lady Bess W. Truman (foreground, third from right) being greeted on their way into the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, held at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. Bess shakes hands with Frank McKinney, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. President Truman shakes hands with Eda (Mrs. Charles) Brannan, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture.

View of the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. during the 1952 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner.

President Harry S. Truman (center) shakes hands with two other unidentified men attending the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C.

The Democratic Women's Day Dinner hosted by Little Rock Democratic Women's Division at the Hotel Marion. Pictured (from left to right): Mrs. Jesse Kirten, Vice-Chairman of Pulaski County (Arkansas) Committee; Governor Sid McMath; Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee; Miss Pauline Hoeltzel, Little Rock Democratic Women's Division Chairman.

Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, (back row, fifth from left); and Blanche Fritz (back row, sixth from left) at dinner in Springfield, Illinois. All other individuals are unidentified.

Mrs. India Edwards, Vice-Chairman, Democratic National Committee (left) with Leo Cherne, Executive Director of the Research Institute of America (right) at a dinner in New York City, New York.

Banquet for women of television and radio held at the residence of ambassador Perle Mesta. Pictured: (seated from left to right), Nell (Mrs. Jesse) Donaldson, wife of the Postmaster General; Roberta (Mrs. Fred) Vinson, wife of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; First Lady Bess Truman, and unidentified. Standing from left to right: Priscilla (Mrs. John) Sullivan, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; unidentified woman; Margaret (Mrs. Kenneth) Royall; Mrs. Henrietta (Mrs. Clinton) Anderson; and Mary (Mrs. Tom) Clark.