First ladies

President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Truman at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Banquet at the Ambassador Hotel. A large cake is being presented to them (they are seated at table). They are on President Truman's Western trip.

President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman greet officers while on a trip to Los Angeles, California. All three are difficult to see in this photo. Margaret Truman's face can be seen between the fourth and fifth officers. Harry and Bess can be seen standing between the third and fourth officers. President Truman is on his western trip.

Margaret Truman and First Lady Bess Wallace Truman are at a train station in Berkeley, California. Other people in the photo are not identified. President Truman is to receive an honorary degree there.

Ramon Ramos (standing by the blackboard) teaches a Spanish Class at the White House for wives of government officials. Seated, from left to right, are Mamie (Mrs. Dwight D.) Eisenhower, Margaret (Mrs. Robert) Patterson, Maryon (Mrs. Lester B.) Pearson, First Lady Bess W. Truman, and Josephine (Mrs. Hugo L.) Black. Standing, from left to right, are Miss Florence King, Mrs. Williams H. Davis, Miss Reathel Odum, Representative Jessie Sumner of Illinois, Priscilla (Mrs. John L.) Sullivan, and Augusta (Mrs. Clarence N.) Goodwin. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

President Harry S. Truman (left) visits with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (right) at the White House. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman pose for their first full family photograph in the White House. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 2.

First Lady Bess Truman (second from right) and Margaret Truman (right) contribute to the fight against infantile paralysis by dropping their dimes into the Missouri bottle outside the Capitol Theater. With them on the left is Richard Dobson, who recovered from infantile paralysis last year. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

First Lady Bess Truman (left) and Margaret Truman (right) enter the Metropolitan Opera House to attend the opening night of the opera. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 1.

President Harry S. Truman (third from the left) looks out over the New York Harbor from the destroyer Renshaw on Navy Day. In the background is the USS Missouri giving off a salute to the President. Also pictured is First Lady Bess Truman (to the right of her husband) and Admiral Jonas Ingram (left). Other people in the photograph are unidentified.

President Gerald Ford speaks at the dedication of the Harry S. Truman statue in front of the Jackson County Courthouse in Independence, Missouri. Behind him, seated in the front row, are (left to right): Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Stuart Symington, Harry Jonas, Missouri Governor Christopher Bond, First Lady Betty Ford, Margaret Truman Daniel, and E. Clifton Daniel. Seated behind Senator Symington is Clark Clifford. Seated behind and to the right of Mr. Daniel is Dr. Benedict Zobrist, Director of the Harry S. Truman Library. All others are unidentified.