Luncheons

Bess Truman, wearing a lei, sits between two unidentified men at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club luncheon held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Both President Harry S. Truman and Margaret Truman are seated at other tables. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

General Mark Clark (4th from right) and unidentified others stand behind a long table at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club luncheon held at the Ambassador Hotel where President Harry S. Truman will be honored. (Same as 50-276). From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

President Harry S. Truman (at the podium) holds up a gift given to him at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Luncheon at the Coconut Grove, Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The other man (at left) is unidentified. (Same as 98-1284). From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

At the podium, President Harry S. Truman acknowledges a gift from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club at a luncheon where he is also scheduled to speak. The man at left is unidentified. President Truman is on his western trip to the West Coast. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

At a fund-raising luncheon sponsored by the Combined Jewish Appeal of Greater Boston (Massachusetts), Bess Truman chats with two unidentified men sitting next to her at the table and several others standing behind her. (See 2009-1744 for Bess's arrival in Boston.) The photo is autographed: Thank you for a wonderful evening. The signature is illegible.) From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman (third from left) sits at the head table with four unidentified women at an unidentified luncheon, evidently at the Chase Statler Hotel in Washington, D. C. From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman poses outdoors with the wives of the Cabinet members during a luncheon at the home of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. From left to right: Nell (Mrs. Jesse) Donaldson; Adele (Mrs. Robert) Lovett; Alice (Mrs. Dean) Acheson; Jane (Mrs. Alben) Barkley; Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman; Bess W. Truman; Evlyn (Mrs. John) Snyder; Regina (Mrs. James) McGranery; Eda (Mrs. Charles) Brannan; Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles) Sawyer; Helen (Mrs. Maurice) Tobin. (See also 67-2285.) From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman (center), Mrs. Charles Brannan (right), and an unidentified woman (left) meet at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., to attend a luncheon. They are to appear later that evening at a reception to honor "Women in Politics." From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman (left) chats with Mrs. Charles Brannan (wife of the Secretary of Agriculture) at a luncheon at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. Both are to appear later that evening at a reception to honor "Women in Politics." From: Truman Home.

First Lady Bess Truman (center) attending a luncheon for Providence Hospital in Washington, D. C. The ladies seated on either side of her are unidentified. Mrs. Truman's original handwriting is on the back of the photograph. Transferred from museum collection 10/2009.