First ladies

Bess Truman sits in an easy chair with an unidentified man (left) in the library of the Truman home on Delaware, Independence, Missouri. From: Truman Home.

First Lady Bess Truman (left) and two unidentified ladies climbing stairs at unidentified location, possibly hotel. There is a canopy over the stairs. They appear to be arriving at a social event, evidently in Washington, D. C. Transferred from museum collection to audiovisual in 2010.

Left to right: Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, and former President Harry S. Truman appearing to leave a hotel en route to a luncheon with Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell (not pictured). See also 95-125-1 and 2 and 68-1515. Transferred from museum collection 10/2009.

Bess Truman (left) is cutting a birthday cake at an unidentified event at the Mayflower Hotel (see microphone sign). There is an unidentified lady to the right holding the plate. There are ladies standing in the background. Transferred from the museum collection, 10/2009.

Bess Truman holds a camera ready to snap a picture of David and Marian Wallace, children of her brother Fred Wallace. From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman relaxes in a deck chair aboard the liner S.S. United States as she and Harry Truman travel to an extended European vacation. From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman (left) poses with six unidentified women outside of an unidentified building. From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman stands outside the door to the lodge at Shangri-La (now Camp David) in Maryland. Next to her (left to right) are an unknown man (possibly a servant), and three friends, Mrs. William (Louise) Duke, Mrs. Tom (Adelaide) Twyman, and Mrs. Kenneth (Mary) Bostian. Possibly this was taken in 1946, when the Bridge Club visited Mrs. Truman in Washington. (See also 89-3.) From: Truman Home.

First Lady Bess Truman (right), coat in hand, walks through the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unidentified woman. (Photo is cut in half.) From: Truman Home.

Edith Wilson, wife of World War I President, Woodrow Wilson, sits on a bench and converses with President Harry S. Truman during a White House lawn party for sick and disabled members of the Armed Forces. Mrs. Wilson originated the annual affair after World War I. (See also 92-364.) (Photo in oversize drawer) From: Found in a box of miscellaneous photographs in the audiovisual area.