Dinners and dining

Honorary member, former President Harry S. Truman (center), sits at the dinner table at a meeting of the U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve Association, at the Bellerive Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The other men are unidentified. From: Dr. D. M. Nigro.

Honorary member, former President Harry S. Truman, (second from left) watches two people at the podium during a U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve Association dinner at the Bellerive Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The other men are unidentified. From: Dr. D. M. Nigro.

Former President Harry S. Truman and wife Bess pose for a photo with four members of Theta Sigma Phi on the occasion of a Matrix Dinner held at the Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. Left to right are: Mr. Truman, Mrs. W.L.C. Palmer, Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark (former U.S. Treasurer), Mrs. Gordon McKenzie, Mrs. Willie Snow Ethridge (speaker from Louisville, Kentucky), and Bess Truman. From: Mrs. W.L.C. Palmer

Former President Harry S. Truman sits next to the podium at the dinner table and listens to Jack Ruben, speaker at the Past Presidents' dinner of the Kehilath Israel Synagogue. The other man is unidentified. The city is Kansas City, Missouri, but the location is unknown. From: Jack Ruben

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) receives a plaque, presented by Ruby D. Garrett, from The Law Alumni Association, University of Kansas City School of Law, at the annual Law School Banquet. From: Paul E. Robinson.

Members of the Truman Committee, friends and spouses at the dining table. The location, date, and event are unknown. Starting at the left, clockwise, are: Hugh Fulton, counsel for the Committee; Marion Toomey; unidentified man; Shirley Hehmeyer; George Meader; George Meader, Jr.; H.G. Robinson; Mrs. George Meader; Walter Hehmeyer; Mrs. Jessie R. (Hugh Fulton); Al Cohen, LA Police Commissioner; and Mrs. H.G. Robinson.

Senator and Vice-Presidential nominee Harry S. Truman chats with friends at the Coronado Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, at a dinner given by the Knights of the Cauliflower Ear, an organization of sports fans, for Harry S. Truman and Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Front row, left to right are: Cecil Engel, Mr. Truman, an unidentified serviceman, and Bernard Dickmann. From: David Meyer (nephew of Cecil Engel).

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (center) attend a grand banquet at the 40th annual convention of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) in the Old Chicago Room of the Sherman House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Others in the photograph are unidentified. (original negative) From: Credit John McDonough.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (left) attend the grand banquet of the 40th annual convention of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) in the Old Chicago Room of the Sherman House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois (original negative) From: Credit John McDonough.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (left) at the grand banquet of the 40th annual convention of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) in the Old Chicago Room of the Sherman House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. (original negative) From: Credit John McDonough.