First ladies

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.

From left to right, former President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mary Jane Truman sit on the stand prior to the ground breaking ceremonies for the Harry S. Truman Library. All others unidentified.

From left to right, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, former President Herbert Hoover, Truman Library, Inc. president Basil O'Connor, and former President Harry S. Truman at dedication ceremonies for the Harry S. Truman Library.

From left to right former President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mary Jane Truman sit on the platform prior to the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Harry S. Truman Library. All others unidentified.

From left to right, former President Harry S. Truman, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mary Jane Truman at the ground breaking ceremonies for the Harry S. Truman Library. All others unidentified.