President Harry S. Truman holds a hat over his chest upon arrival in Bremerton, Washington. First Lady Bess Truman (rear left) and Washington Governor Monrad Wallgren (rear center) stand in the background. The Navy personnel standing at attention to the left and right of President Truman are unidentified. The Trumans were visiting the Bremerton Naval Shipyard in Washington, a stop on their trip to the West Coast. [Donor: Julia White]
President Harry S. Truman (center) and his party meets with unidentified members of the press for a press conference on Pier B at the Naval Station at Key West, FL after returning from Fort Jefferson on Garden Key. Standing to the right of the President is Admiral William Leahy. The president had just disembarked the U.S.S. Sarsfield.
President Harry S. Truman salutes unidentified servicemen on the runway of the U.S. Naval base before departing Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On the same trip, Truman visited Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Key West, FL. Truman arrived to Guantanamo Bay by boat in the morning and left for Key West, FL, that afternoon via U.S. Army airplane. Donor: Tim Adelman.
A mid-1800's county map of Missouri. The map highlights the counties in color and shows towns, villages, forts, railroads finished and in progress, telegraph lines, rivers, and other details. Another map, in the top left corner, shows the railroad connection between St. Louis and New York. The New York and Erie Railroad Line and St. Louis are marked in red pencil.
Great Lakes Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois. "Vive la France" spelled by sailors in training at the Great Lakes Training Station. Donor: Frank Freidal, who obtained these photographs from the National Archives.
President Harry S. Truman, (third from the left, left side of the table) and other unidentified naval personnel attend a buffet supper in the President's honor. The supper was hosted by the officers of the submarine base in Key West, Florida.