Dinners and dining

President Harry S. Truman attending a luncheon in association with the dedication of the Liberty Bell replica given to Independence, MO, by the people of Annecy-le-Vieux, France. From left to right at the head table are Mary Jane Truman, Blevins Davis, President Truman, unidentified man (standing), Mayor Robert Weatherford (standing), and Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder.

President Harry S. Truman (left, standing) shakes hands with an unidentified man at a banquet.

Mary Ethel Noland in her senior years, cousin of former President Harry S. Truman, is escorted into a room where possibly lunch or dinner is being served. The date, event, location and others in the photo are unknown. From: Clem Bangers

A group of unidentified reporters having dinner aboard President Harry S. Truman's plane, the Sacred Cow.

Seated at the dinner table are, left to right: Father John La Farge, Arthur Compton, James F. Twohy (Co-Chairman), Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and Chief Justice Earl Warren. The event was a National Conference of Christians and Jews banquet in New York City at which a portrait of Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes was unveiled.

From left to right: former First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, former President Harry S. Truman, and Margaret Truman attending a dinner and reception given by Mr. Truman for his associates from his days as President.

Martin H. Kennelly (seated at a table), Mayor of Chicago, shakes hands with a constituent as they meet for a fund-raising dinner of the Democratic National Committee to be held later. Except for Elmer Gertz (third from left), President of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, none of the other men are identified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from left) in a four-way handshake with (left to right) Jacob Arvey, Honorary Co-Chairman of the "All-Chicago Committee for the Truman Library" and Democratic National Committeeman from Illinois; Elmer Gertz, President of the Decalogue Society; and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. The event was the Decalogue Society of Lawyers Twentieth Annual Patriotic Dinner held at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, at which President Truman was awarded the Decalogue Society of Lawyers Award of Merit for the year 1954.

Photo of members of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers attending their Twentieth Annual Patriotic Dinner at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, on Aril 27, 1955, where former President Harry S. Truman is to be awarded the Decalogue Society of Lawyers Award of Merit for the year 1954. (See also 2003-307.) Mr. Truman is not visible in this photo.

Photograph of former First Lady Bess Truman chatting with three unidentified women at a dinner given in honor of Alonzo Gentry. Mr. Gentry is with the firm Gentry & Volskamp, which constructed the Truman Library. From: Lon Gentry Dinner.