Food

Accompanied by Secret Service Agent George Drescher (behind Truman), President Harry S. Truman (foreground) carries his lunch tray through the chow line in the crew's mess hall on the USS Augusta. He is en route to the Potsdam Conference. All others sailors in this photograph are unidentified.

Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Jackson (left) and Senator Olin Johnston (right) present President Harry S. Truman (center) with a turkey. The turkey is a gift from Wilton E. Hall (not pictured), publisher of the Anderson Independent and Daily Mail of Anderson, South Carolina.

An unidentified, smiling woman has fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs and milk from her grocery bag, evidently illustrating bountiful food. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit. Restrictions: Freelance Photographer's Guild.

Grocery store with signs advertising U. S. Government surplus foods. From: Photos used in the 1984 Truman Centennial Exhibit. This is from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and Secretary Clinton Anderson (right) demonstrate the lack of difference between the new bread for America and the traditional bread. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

Alice Marie Casey of Parsons, Kansas (center) presents Vice President Harry S. Truman (left) with a typical serviceman's doughnut. Senator Clyde M. Reed of Kansas looks on from the right. Ms. Casey was selected as the most typical canteen hostess from among over 200 other "Donuteers." From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 1.

Snacks, punch and coffee are lined up on a table at the reception following Jose Iturbi's concert at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. Two unidentified people are pictured.

Unidentified people are sampling the food and punch at the reception after Jose Iturbi's concert at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri.

President Harry S. Truman (right) uses a captured German saber to cut into a 125 pound watermelon given to him by Ernie Ahrenfeldt of Little Rock, Arkansas (left). This photograph is from the album "Mr. President, His Family, and Friends."

A peanut vendor (foreground) is working in a street in Alexandria, Egypt. All people are unidentified.