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Former President Harry S. Truman with Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman of Israel at the Truman Library

Former President Harry S. Truman (front row, center) and the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Isser Yehuda Unterman (left), stand next to the exhibit of the Torah at the Truman Library. The others are unidentified. Rabbi Unterman came to Kansas City to meet Mr. Truman. From: Chris (Mrs. Elmer) Josephson, Bible Light International, Inc., P.O. Box 370, Ottawa, Kansas 66067

Former President Truman in Billiken Day Parade in Chicago, Illinois

Former President Harry S. Truman sits on the left, high on the back seat of a convertible waving to the crowd in the Bud Billiken Day Parade in Chicago, Illinois. John H. Sengstacke, publisher and editor of The Chicago Defender, is in the center. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley sits on the right. Mr. Truman was taking a break from the Democratic National Convention being held in Chicago at this time. The photo is autographed: Best Wishes, John H. Sengstacke, Billiken Day, 1956. During the Truman administration, Mr.

Former President Truman chats with Christ T. Seraphim

Former President Harry S. Truman chats with Christ T. Seraphim, Milwaukee County Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, during a reception at the home of Howard J. Meister in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. President Truman later spoke at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner at the Auditorium. The photo is autographed as follows: Health and Happiness to America's greatest President, Christ T. Seraphim, June 15, 1957 From: Christ T. Seraphim

Former President Truman Greets Averell Harriman

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) greets New York Governor Averell Harriman (right) at Municipal Airport in Kansas City, Missouri. Former Wichita Mayor and Harriman's Kansas campaign manager William C. Salome (left), and former Treasurer of the United States Georgia Neese Clark Gray (second from left) also met Governor Harriman on the tarmac. Harriman was starting a four-day tour of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, and South Dakota seeking votes for the Democratic Presidential nomination. See also 69-517.

Truman, Acheson, and Others touring Truman Library construction site

Basil O'Connor (front of line), former President Harry S. Truman (second), Dean Acheson (third in line), Tom Evans (following Acheson, head is down), David Lloyd (left of Acheson), and Alonzo Gentry (following Mr. Lloyd) walk on some boards at the construction site of the Harry S. Truman Library. Mr. Gentry is one of the architects who helped design the Library. The photographer on the left is unidentified.

Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson and Others at Truman Library Site

David Lloyd (second from left), Dean Acheson (third from left), Basil O'Connor (fourth from left), Alonzon Gentry (third from right), Tom Evans (second from right), and former President Harry S. Truman (right) are gathered in a semi-circle talking at the construction site of the Harry S. Truman Library. Mr. Gentry is one of the architects who helped design the Library. The first man to the left is unidentified.