First ladies

President Harry S. Truman (right), First Lady Bess W. Truman (middle), and their daughter Margaret Truman (left) stand together at the airport in Washington, D.C., preparing to depart on a trip to view flood conditions in the Midwest. All others unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left), First Lady Bess W. Truman (middle), and Margaret Truman (right) prepare to board a plane headed for Missouri to view the flood conditions in the Midwest.

President Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman stand on the rear platform of a train making a whistlestop at an unidentified city in Idaho during his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (Same as 66-670). From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Bess Truman (right) sits in the study, before a desk piled high with books and magazines, and her nephew, David Wallace, sits at right during a visit to the Truman home in Independence, Missouri. From: Truman Home.

Left to right: Mrs. Fred (Christine) Wallace, Bess Truman, Bess' niece Marian Wallace, and her nephew, David Wallace, seated on a sofa. (See also 2009-1571.) From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman, currently touring Europe with her husband, and an unidentified man watch Harry (not shown) do the honors with a candle-bedecked cake as they celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary at a dinner in Monte Carlo, Monaco. (See also 93-259.) From: Truman Home

President Harry S. Truman doffs his hat to the welcoming crowd as he and Mrs. Bess Truman leave their train at Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, three-quarters of the way through his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (Same as 66-768) From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Bess Truman attends a Salvation Army Auxiliary Benefit Garden Party at the Peruvian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Left to right are: Mrs. Bontree, Bess Truman, Mrs. Buckemeyer, and Mrs. Dougherty. From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman attends a Salvation Army Auxiliary Benefit Garden Party at the Peruvian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Left to right are Mrs. Bontree, unidentified woman, Bess Truman, Mrs. Buckemeyer, and Mrs. Dougherty. From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman, seated in a row with four unidentified women, shakes hands with an unidentified man standing in front of her. The audience is seated in what appears to be a theater or hall. From: Truman Home.