First ladies

First Lady Bess Truman (third from left) and Madame Henri Bonnet, wife of the French Ambassador to the United States (right) greet unidentified ladies at the French Embassy on the occasion of the House and Embassy Tour.

Informal portrait of former President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman, entering a doorway, smiling. From: Franklin Lamb.

A small informal snapshot of First Lady Bess Truman. She is outside of Blair House.

A snapshot of Margaret Truman (left) and First Lady Bess Truman seated outside at Blair House.

A small casual photo of the First Lady at Blair House. She is seated on a chaise lounge.

Left to right: former President Harry S. Truman; Mrs. Samuel Rosenman; former First Lady Bess Truman; and former New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Rosenman, photographed near a plane. The Rosenman's are ready to depart on a Pan Am flight to the Far East.

Color photo of (left to right) Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh), Margaret Truman, Bess Truman, Princess Elizabeth, and President Harry S. Truman prior to a banquet given in honor of the royal couple during a visit to the United States. (See 59-5 for a similar black-and-white photo.)

This is a portrait of First Lady Bess Wallace Truman and Margaret Truman at Blair House. The White House is in the process of being repaired at this time in 1948.

President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Wallace Truman at an Army Navy Football Game. They are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Former First Lady Bess Truman, with a fur coat draped over her arm, poses outside her church (Trinity Episcopal Church) on Easter Sunday. From: Truman Home.