Gifts

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from left) receives a key to the city of Flint, Michigan, from the Mayor of Flint, George R. Poulos (left). Others in the photo are unidentified. Mr. Truman met with Mr. Poulos in his reception area at the Harry S. Truman Library.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from left) receives a key to the city of Flint, Michigan, from the Mayor of Flint, George R. Poulos (left). Others in the photo are unidentified. Mr. Truman met with Mr. Poulos in his reception area at the Harry S. Truman Library.

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives a 900-year-old vase from Dr. E. W. Chang, head of the Coseoul Normal College of Korea (right). The vase is a gift to the American People. Dr. Chang visited the United States as the head of a Korean mission to study American educational methods.

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives an honorary scroll of membership from the Royal Netherlands Choral Society as a tribute to the American soldiers who occupied Maastricht, the first Netherlands town to be liberated from the Germans. Presenting the scroll are Colonel Edward W. Gould (middle) and the Ambassador from Holland Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (right).

President Harry S. Truman, seated on the back of the open car, receives a scrapbook from twelve year old William Barrett, son of Chief Pharmacist's Mate P.W. Barrett of the United States Navy, while Admiral William Leahy (front seat) looks on. Young Barrett presented the scrapbook to the President on behalf of his schoolmates during the President's visit to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman accepts a gold card making him an honorary member of the Golden Jubilee Anniversary Committee of West New York, New Jersey. From left to right; Executive Secretary of the Golden Jubilee Committee Harry J. Swensen; Mayor Wilbur J. McGowan; General Executive of the Committee and former mayor of West New York, Joseph Stilz; President Truman; Representative Edward J. Hart; and public relations department head George Rosenberg.

President Harry S. Truman (left) is shown with Representative Carl Hinshaw (right) as he called at the White House to invite the President to the annual Rose bowl Game in Pasadena, California.

President Harry S. Truman receives a pair of cowboy boots made by Tony Lama from members of the House of Representatives and the Chamber of Commerce of El Paso, Texas. From left to right: Representative Ken Regan, President Truman, Representative George H. Mahon, Representative W. R. Poage and Representative Ed Gossett.

First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (seated, left) attends a Christmas Bag Party at the Central Union Mission where she presents gifts to five-year-olds Carl Eager, Jr. (foreground, center) and Jean Copeland (foreground, right). Others in the background are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives a toy target gun from Major General A. C. McAuliffe (right) on behalf the Field Artillery Association. The presentation occurred in President Truman's Oval Office.