Ex-presidents

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) chats with Dewey Short (right), Assistant Secretary of the Army for the Reserves, while Lt. Col. Robert E. Adams (center) looks on. All are attending a Reserve Officers Association awards banquet at an unknown location. From: Robert E. Adams, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri.

Former President Harry S. Truman in a three-way handshake with Lt. Col. Raymond Harvey (center), winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Dewey Short (right), Assistant Secretary of the Army for the Reserves. All are attending a Reserve Officers Association awards banquet. The location is unknown. From: Robert E. Adams, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri

Former President Harry S. Truman in a three-way handshake with Lt. Col. Raymond Harvey (center), winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Dewey Short (right), Assistant Secretary of the Army for the Reserves. All are attending a Reserve Officers Association awards banquet. The location is unknown. From: Robert E. Adams, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri

Former President Harry S. Truman in a three-way handshake with Lt. Col. Raymond Harvey (center), Congressional Medal of Honor winner, and Dewey Short (right) Assistant Secretary of the Army for the Reserves. All are attending a Reserve Officers Association awards banquet. The location is unknown. From: Robert E. Adams, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) greets Margaret Vaughan (Mrs. Harry) and Helen Mara (Mrs. Cornelius) in a three-way handshake. From: Found in a box of miscellaneous photographs in the audiovisual area.

View of Table 2 and the head table at a banquet held at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Missouri. Former President Harry S. Truman is sitting at the center of the head table, and fourth from his right is Col. L. Curtis Tiernan, Chaplain to the U.S. forces in Europe during World War II. The others are unidentified, and the event and date are unknown. (See also oversize photo 2007-212.) From: Found in a box of miscellaneous photographs in the audiovisual area.

At a banquet at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Missouri, a smiling former President Harry S. Truman is shown holding a knife preparatory to cutting a cake in hand. The cake reads: It's a Happy Day, Mr. President. (See 2007-210 for a photo of the banquet.) The event is unknown. From: Found in a box of miscellaneous photographs in the audiovisual area.

Former President Harry S. Truman receives a plaque from the Missouri Writer's Guild in his office at the Federal Reserve Bank Building. The plaque is for his "Memoirs." They are, left to right: Mrs. Grace Mitchell, Mr. Clifford H. Nowlin, Mr. Robert V. Harman, Mr. Cecil Perkins, and Mrs. Alta Armstrong. See also photo 58-449. From: Found in a box of miscellaneous photographs in the audiovisual area.

Profile portrait of former President Harry S. Truman taken in front of a theater in New York City. On the bottom of the photo is written: "Taken by Gerald C. Bloch in front of theater in N.Y. Inscribed copy June 4,'60." From a box of miscellaneous photographs found in the audiovisual area.

Former President Harry S. Truman delivers his dedicatory address on the occasion of the dedication of the National Guard Memorial in Washington, D.C. All others in photo are unidentified.