Friends and associates

Left to right: Dean Acheson, Vice President of the Library Committee; Alonzo Gentry, Gentry & Voskamp Architects; Rufus Burrus; Harry S. Truman; Mayor Robert Weatherford, Mayor of Independence; and Basil O'Connor, President of the Library Committee at the site of the Truman Library. From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.

Left to right: Dean Acheson, Vice President of the Truman Library Committee; Alonzo Gentry of Gentry & Voskamp Architects; Rufus Burrus; Harry S. Truman; Basil O'Connor, President of the Truman Library Committee; and David Lloyd, Executive Director of the Library Committee (behind Mr. O'Connor) at the site of the Truman Library at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.

Left to right: former President Harry S. Truman; Bess Truman; Dean Acheson, Vice President of the Truman Library Committee; and David Lloyd, Executive Director of the Library Committee at the site of the Truman Library. From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.

Left to right: former President Harry S. Truman; Bess Truman; Basil O'Connor, President of the Library Committee; Dean Acheson, Vice President of the Library Committee and David Lloyd, Executive Director of the Library Committee, inspect the site of the Harry S. Truman Library at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.

A group of 822 Club members descend a flight of stairs followed by Father Curtis Tiernan during a tour of the Harry S. Truman Library. From: Leather bound album of 53 8 x 10 photos taken at the nearly completed Truman Library showing the 822 Club on tour.

Harry S. Truman standing in the center (third from left) of an unfinished room with unidentified men of the 822 Club (related to the Kansas City Club) during a tour of the Harry S. Truman Library. From: Leather bound album of 53 8 x 10 photos taken at the nearly completed Truman Library showing the 822 Club on tour.

Harry S. Truman (third from left) walking with Father L. Curtis Tiernan (far left)and other unidentified men during a tour of the new Harry S. Truman Library by the 822 Club (part of the Kansas City Club). Father Tiernan was chaplain for Battery D during World War I. From: Leather bound album of 53 8 x 10 photos taken at the nearly completed Truman Library showing the 822 Club on tour.

Harry S. Truman walking as he tours the Harry S. Truman Library followed by unidentified people from the 822 Club. Rope lighting lines the hallway. Leather bound album of 53 8 x 10 photos taken at the nearly completed Truman Library showing the 822 Club on tour.

Several unidentified men from the 822 Club walking along a hallway touring the Harry S. Truman Library. From: Leather bound album of 53 8 x 10 photos taken at the nearly completed Truman Library showing the 822 Club on tour. Harry S. Truman walking as he tours the Truman Library.

Harry S. Truman (right) walking through a doorway as he tours the Harry S. Truman Library with unidentified men from the 822 Club (part of the Kansas City Club). Tom Evans is at left. Rope lighting lines the hallways. From: Leather bound album of 53 8 x 10 photos taken at the nearly completed Truman Library showing the 822 Club on tour.