Mayors

Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Bryce B. Smith (first row, third from right) and a group of unidentified men in a room at City Hall.

Bryce Smith, the Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri (right) is shaking hands with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (back seat, second from left) as she sits in the back seat of an open car. Also present is President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left). Others are unidentified.

Signing of Advance Contract Approval for Waukegan Illinois. Seated left to right: Nathaniel S. Keith, Director of the Division of Slum Clearance and Urban Redevelopment, Housing and Home Finance Agency; Administrator Raymond Foley of the Housing and Home Finance Agency; and Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Back row, left to right: Temple McFayden, Chairman of the Illinois State Housing Board; Mayor Robert E. Coulson of Waukegan, Illinois; and Dr. Henry B. Baum, Chairman of the Waukegan Housing Authority.

Former President Harry S. Truman (third from left) with Mayor Fred L. Peterson in a crowd. The former president is in Portland, Oregon, for the Rose Festival. Donor: Edward Bushby.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) is greeted as he arrives for an inspection visit in New Orleans, Louisiana. From left to right: New Orleans Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison, unidentified man (back to camera), Colonel Robert V. Maraist, and Secretary Pace.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace is greeted as he arrives for an inspection visit in New Orleans, Louisiana. From left to right: New Orleans Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison, Secretary Pace, and Colonel Robert V. Maraist, Chief of the Louisiana Military District.

Kansas City Mayor H. Roe Bartle (right) places an award around the neck of an unidentified man. Former President Harry S. Truman is seated at left. This appears to be a banquet at the Muehlebach Hotel, possibly a birthday celebration for Mr. Truman. See related photos 2009-2013 through 2015. From: Mo-Bee Photo Service.

Left to right: Father L. Curtis Tiernan, former President Harry S. Truman, and Independence Mayor Robert Weatherford standing together laughing. They are outdoors in a park, occasion unknown. From: Montgomery Photo Service.

Interior view showing W. Averell Harriman seated on the lower right. He may be meeting with the mayor of Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan, while touring various regions during his trip to the Soviet Union. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.

Interior view showing W. Averell Harriman seated on the lower right looking at a map on the wall. He may be meeting with the mayor of Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan, while touring various regions during his trip to the Soviet Union. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).