First ladies

Dedication ceremony of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. Pictured left to right in front row: unidentified, Independence Mayor Robert P. Weatherford, unidentified, Sam Rayburn, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, former President Herbert Hoover, former President Truman, Basil O'Connor, unidentified at podium. from: Copied from photographs loaned to the Library by Mary Shaw Branton.

Chart of the family tree of the Harry S. Truman ancestral lines: Harry S. Truman and Elizabeth Virginia Wallace (Bess). These genealogical charts were prepared by family historian Mary Ethel Noland.

First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (center) and President Harry S. Truman (right) on the back of the campaign train in Rome, New York. The man on the left is unidentified. Sent to Margaret Truman by Mrs. William R. Johnson.

First Lady Bess W. Truman (left) and President Harry S. Truman (right) in Rome, New York, on the back of a train. Sent to Margaret Truman by Mrs. William R. Johnson.

Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek (right) and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are seated together on the White House lawn while newsmen and photographers take pictures.

Return of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President-elect Alben Barkley to Washington, D. C. after Presidential election. Between them is Senator J. Howard McGrath. Bess Truman, Margaret Truman and Mrs. Marian Barkley Truitt, Senator Barkley's daughter, are seated in front of them.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman; Mrs. Suda Wells, a cousin of the President and the eldest living relative on his mother's side; and Mrs. Bess W. Truman. President Truman was campaigning in Carbondale, Illinois, where Mrs. Wells lived. Others in the photo are unidentified.

A composite photo, showing President Harry S. Truman holding a movie camera while Bess Wallace Truman (center) and Margaret Truman (left) walk in the background. The pictures were taken in Key West, Florida while the Trumans were on vacation.

A composite photo, showing President Harry S. Truman holding a movie camera while Bess Wallace Truman and Margaret Truman walk in the background. The pictures were taken in Key West, Florida while the Trumans were on vacation.

Portrait of Bess Wallace Truman. The original of this photo is in a small green leather folding frame along with a portrait of Margaret (61-141-02).