Offices

Former President Harry S. Truman is sitting at his desk in his office at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. He is signing a letter.

Two unidentified men in an office with bouquet of flowers on desk. There are gift boxes on the desk and they are holding what appears to be a whip; they are possibly Treasury Department employees. There is a graph on the wall of the office. Original 4x5 negative.

Interior, office view in which seven men are standing together. Location is believed to be California and the photograph taken while Charles S. Murphy was Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman (1965-1968). Chairman Murphy is standing third from the left. Exact location and identification of others in view is not given.

Former President Harry S. Truman is seated at a table in the center of the picture. Seated to the right of him is seated Charles S. Murphy, Mr. Truman's former Special Counselor and Administrative Assistant. The location is Murphy's office in the Pennsylvania Building in Washington, D.C. and the group is working on the testimony Truman will give before the House Banking and Currency Committee. Others in view are not identified.

Ambassador Stanton Griffis' office in Warsaw, Poland.

Major Richard C. Patterson at his desk in Paris showing his reflection in the mirror behind him. Handwriting in black ink on the back reads, "2/8/19 A very poor picture of my office--others will be taken soon. Dick Note the Dictograph on my left which puts me in instant communication, without going through central, with 20 heads of departments. D" Lt. Col. Patterson is the Administrative Officer of the American Peace Commission, 1918-1919.

Senator Harry S. Truman seated at a desk in an office in the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri.

Senator Harry S. Truman seated at a desk in his office at the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri.

Senator Harry S. Truman (left) in his office in the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri. Seated next to him is colleague and friend Fred Canfil.

This photograph shows Stanton Griffis's desk sometime after the Wall Street bomb exploded on September 16, 1920. Apparently, one of the two paperweights on top of the notebook is a piece of iron used to make the bomb that came through the window and landed on his desk taking a chunk of mahogany with it. Fortunately he was a few minutes late for work that day because of a dog he was caring for. The iron became his favorite paperweight.