First ladies

Portrait of Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Wallace as a young woman, wearing a large brimmed hat with two large hatpins.

Group shot taken at the 10th Presidential trip to Key West. [L to R] first row: Harold Enarson, John R. Steelman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, William Hassett, Irving Perlmeter. Second row, left to right: Eben Ayers, David H. Stowe, Major General Wallace Graham, Major General Harry Vaughan, Joseph Short, Rear Admiral Robert Dennison, Brigadier General Robert Landry, Philleo Nash, and Charles W. Jackson. See also 67-3204, 67-3205, and 74-796

President Richard Nixon sits down to play the piano for former President Harry S. Truman during the Nixon's visit to the Truman Library. From left to right: First Lady Pat Nixon, former President Truman, former First Lady Bess W. Truman, and President Nixon.

President Richard M. Nixon visits the Harry S. Truman Library. Foreground, from left to right: First Lady Pat Nixon, President Nixon, former President Harry S. Truman, former First Lady Bess W. Truman. In the background, standing in the doorway, is Mrs. Dorothy Brooks, wife of the Library Director, Dr. Philip C. Brooks.

From left to right, former President Harry S. Truman, Adlai Stevenson, and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

An unidentified apparent merchant is seated at a small table. Looking on, left to right, are Former First Lady Bess Truman, Former President Harry S. Truman, an unidentified man, Stanley Woodward, and Mrs. Shirley Woodward, who seems to be handing the merchant money. They are visiting Salzburg, Austria.

Former President Harry S. Truman (front row, second from left), former First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (front row, fifth from left), Margaret Truman (second row, fifth from left), and others at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Margaret Truman (front row, fourth from right), Bess Wallace Truman (front row, far right), and other spectators at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former First Lady Bess Truman (second from left)and others at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Edwin Pauley (left) with Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (center) and an unidentified man.