First ladies

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) visits with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor following a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel honoring the President on his 70th birthday. The dinner was given by the Truman Library Committee to raise $1,500,000 to build a Library in Independence, MO. See 97-2099 through 97-2107.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) visits with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor following a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel honoring the President on his 70th birthday. The dinner was given by the Truman Library Committee to raise $1,500,000 to build a Library in Independence, MO. See 97-2099 through 97-2107.

Left to right: Senator Alben Barkley, Bess Truman, and President Harry S. Truman. President Truman and Mrs. Truman are leaving Washington for a weekend at their home in Independence, Missouri. Senator Alben W. Barkley, Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader, was in the party and will leave the plane at Paducah, Kentucky, where he is scheduled to speak this weekend. The President and Mrs. Truman and the Senator are shown at Washington National Airport prior to boarding their plane. From: Beth Gore.

Former President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (left and second from left) sit down to a luncheon with unidentified others. The location, event, and date are unknown. From: Dr. D. M. Nigro.

From left to right, Harold T. Johnson, Mayor of Roseville, California, President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman on the rear platform of a train leaving for San Francisco after making a Whistlestop at Sacramento, California. From: Carol Paoli, Plumas County Museum, 500 Jackson St., Quincy, CA 95971

First Lady Bess Truman (center), standing next to President Harry S. Truman (left), waves to the crowd from the rear platform of a train during a 1948 campaign Whistlestop in Broken Bow, Nebraska. On her left is a local resident, Jim Kelly. From: Mrs. Ed Pelanowski.

Former President Harry S. Truman and wife Bess pose for a photo with four members of Theta Sigma Phi on the occasion of a Matrix Dinner held at the Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. Left to right are: Mr. Truman, Mrs. W.L.C. Palmer, Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark (former U.S. Treasurer), Mrs. Gordon McKenzie, Mrs. Willie Snow Ethridge (speaker from Louisville, Kentucky), and Bess Truman. From: Mrs. W.L.C. Palmer

Former President Harry S. Truman (center), Bess Truman (on his right, in white hat), and Margaret Truman (behind waiter on Bess's right), have lunch aboard the S.S. President Cleveland upon arrival at San Francisco, California, after a month's vacation in Hawaii. The other people are unidentified. From: Bayard C. Rucker.

Upon arrival in San Francisco, California, after a month's vacation in Hawaii, former President Harry S. Truman, escorted by Captain Hobart J. Ehman (right), walks down the deck of the liner S.S. President Cleveland in preparation for departure from the ship. Behind Mr. Truman, on his right, Bess and Margaret Truman descend a flight of stairs to join him. (See 2002-463 through 469.) (Original negative included.) From: Bayard C. Rucker.

Bess Truman poses for a photo aboard the S.S. President Cleveland upon arrival at San Francisco, California, after a month's trip to Hawaii with her husband and daughter. (See 2002-463 through 469.) (Original negative included.) From: Bayard C. Rucker.