First ladies

From left to right, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, Greta Kempton, and Mrs. Margaret Truman Daniel at a White House ceremony for the hanging of the official portrait of former First Lady Bess Wallace Truman. The portrait was painted by Ms. Kempton.

Family portrait of First Lady Bess Truman and her three brothers, probably taken at the White House during Christmas. Left to right: Frank Wallace, Fred Wallace, Bess Truman, and George Wallace. This photo is from an original negative. From: Truman house.

The formal unveiling of the Greta Kempton official portrait of First Lady Bess Truman during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Left to right: Vice President Hubert Humphrey; First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; Thomas Washington Daniel (1 year old); Margaret Truman; Harrison Gates Daniel (3 years old); William Wallace Daniel (7 years old); Clifton Truman Daniel (9 years old); and Clifton Daniel.

Christmas dinner at the White House. Around the table from the left end: Fred Wallace, Madge Gates Wallace, Natalie Wallace, Marian Wallace, First Lady Bess Truman, David Wallace, Christine Wallace, Frank Wallace, George Wallace, Mary Jane Truman, President Harry S. Truman. The servants standing in the background are unidentified. This photo is from an original negative found in the Truman home. From: Truman home.

Left to right: First Lady Bess Truman, her mother Madge Gates Wallace, and her sister-in-law May Wallace, seated in the Breakfast Room of the White House. From: Copied from a scrapbook owned by Mrs. James C. Noel and loaned to the Truman Library by her nephew, Jim S. Noel.

Stereograph of President Harry S. Truman throwing out a ball at a Washington Senators baseball game. Bess Truman and Margaret Truman are at his left. From; Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and Chowder Club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

From left to right, Bess Truman, former President Harry S. Truman, and Charles Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics. They are watching a Boston-Kansas City baseball game. From: Houston Post

Members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party pose for a photograph at the 10th Presidential trip to Key West. First row, left to right: Harold Enarson, John R. Steelman, first Lady Bess Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, William Hassett, Irving Perlmeter. Second row, left to right: Eben Ayers, David H. Stowe, General Wallace Graham, General Harry Vaughan, Joseph Short, Admiral Robert Dennison, General Robert Landry, Philleo Nash, and Charles W. Jackson. Same as photo 67-3204, 67-3205,67-3204. This photograph is inscribed "Kew West, Florida. December 4, 1951."

Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess Truman are shown viewing the monuments and statues in the famed Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy, last week. The Truman's arrived in Genoa from Naples aboard the liner Independence and later continued on to Cannes, France where they will spend their vacation. From: Houston Post.

Kansas City, MO. Former President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman boarded a train last night for Chicago where tonight he addresses a $100-a-plate Democratic party dinner. Following that, the Truman's plan a visit to New York with their daughter, the former Margaret Truman, and her family. From: Houston Post.