First ladies

Almost full length photo of former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman on the deck of the S.S. President Cleveland. They are going to Hawaii.

Full length photo of former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman on the deck of S.S. President Cleveland. They are on their way to Hawaii.

Full length photo of former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman on the deck of S.S. President Cleveland. They are on their way to Hawaii.

Former president Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, George Killion, Margaret Truman, and Captain Hobart J. Ehman aboard S.S. President Cleveland, are departing from Los Angeles, sailing to Hawaii.

Full length photo of former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman on the deck of S.S. President Cleveland. They are on their way to Hawaii.

Full length photo of Harry, Bess, and Margaret Truman on deck of S.S. President Cleveland. Inscribed "John Snyder" on back. They are on their way to a vacation in Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, Captain Hobart J. Ehman, Margaret Truman, and George Killion aboard S.S. President Cleveland, probably upon departure from Los Angeles sailing to Hawaii. They are waving farewell.

Former President Harry S. Truman at the podium speaking. He is at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, New York. The banquet is honoring former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Visible behind the former President are from left to right: Averell Harriman, Paul Butler, and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. It was attended by many Democratic dignitaries. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (left), an unidentified young woman (center), and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (right) at a nation-wide radio broadcast from the White House to promote fundraising efforts for infantile paralysis. From the Scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 3.

The Cabinet members meet with President Harry S. Truman and his family outside the White House to accompany him to Capitol Hill as he delivers the State of the Union address. From left to right, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, Attorney General Tom Clark, Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Secretary of State James Byrnes, Bess Wallace Truman, President Truman, Margaret Truman, Secretary of Treasury John Snyder, Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman, and Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach.