Dwellings

Former president Harry S. Trumans meeting with students from Truman High School, Independence, Missouri on the steps of his home. It is Truman's birthday.

The birthplace of Bess Wallace Truman, on Ruby Street in Independence, Missouri.

A Victorian-style house next door to the house in which Bess Wallace Truman was born on Ruby Street, Independence, Missouri.

Photo of the home of President Harry S. Truman, 219 N. Delaware, Independence, Missouri, in the winter. This photo was taken sometime before November 1949, when the fence was erected.

Photograph of the home of President Harry S. Truman in Independence, Missouri. From an album containing photographs of improvements around the Independence, Missouri town square. Donor: Albert Schoenreg.

Front of the Blair House, which served as the home of President Harry S. Truman and his family while the White House was being renovated.

The house at 608 N. Delaware, one of Bess Wallace's former residences, taken during the winter of 1897. There is snow on the house. From the Truman home.

Photograph of the home at 909 Waldo Avenue in Independence, Missouri, where Harry S. Truman lived in his youth. Mary Jane Truman, as a child, and her grandmother, Harriet Young, are seated on the porch. Copied from photographs lent to the Harry S. Truman Library by Martha Ann Swoyer, daughter of Vivian Truman.

Several unidentified workmen carefully hoist the F. G. Coates portrait of President Woodrow Wilson into position over the mantel in the Red Room.

A massive new 36" concrete sewer line is laid through the new concrete foundation wall. While one workman prepares to send excavated dirt out on a cart through one section of the sewer line, another workman prepares a new section for installation into the excavated area by means of hydraulic jacks, July 6, 1950.