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James Michener (left) shaking hands with Dorothy (Mrs. Philip C.) Brooks in the hallway of the Truman Library. Others, left to right in background: Mrs. E.F. Stanton, E.F. Stanton, Thomas Hart Benton (back to camera), Mari (Mrs. James A.) Michener and Truman Library Director Dr. Philip C. Brooks.

Truman Library Curator Milton F. Perry (eleventh from the right, holding file folder) among foreign diplomats and members of the press in the lobby of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. All others are unidentified.

A group of people in the research room of the Harry S. Truman Library. Truman Library curator Milton Perry is third from the left; all others are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (standing, second from left) receiving the first Volume of the Truman Papers. Archivist of the United States Wayne C. Grover (far left), Assistant Archivist of the United States Karl L. Trever (second from the right), and Truman Library Director Philip C. Brooks (far right) also on stage in the auditorium of the Truman Library.

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) receives the first volume of the Truman Papers from Archivist of the United States Wayne C. Grover (left) and Representative Richard Bolling (right) at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) receiving Volume I of the Truman Papers from Archivist of the United States Wayne C. Grover (left) and Representative Richard Bolling (right) at the Harry S. Truman Library.

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) receiving Volume I of the Truman Papers at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. With Truman are Archivist of the United States Wayne C. Grover (left) and Representative Richard Bolling.

Oliver W. Holmes speaking at the Society of American Archivists luncheon held at the Hotel Continental in Kansas City, Missouri. From left: Archivist of the United States Wayne C. Grover, O.W. Holmes, an unidentified person, Dolores Renze, and Henry Edmunds.

Ernst Posner speaking to the Society of American Archivists luncheon at the Hotel Continental in Kansas City, Missouri. From left: Archivist of the United States Dr. Wayne C. Grover, Ernst Posner (speaking), an unidentified person, Dolores Renze, and Henry Edmunds.

Philip Hamer speaking at the Society of American Archivists luncheon at the Hotel Continental in Kansas City, Missouri. From left: Wayne C. Grover, P.M. Hamer, an unidentified person, and Dolores Renze.