Presidential family

Head-and-shoulders daguerreotype studio portrait of an unidentified young man in a velvet-lined, embellished leather case, probably a member of the Wallace family. Date of platemaker is 1850.(Companion photo to 2009-1611 and 1612.) From: Truman Home.

Badly faded snapshot of President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with Mrs. Ralph E. Truman (Olive), wife of the President's cousin, at an airport in Springfield, Missouri, where he will attend a 35th Division reunion. From: Mrs. Ralph E. Truman

Badly faded snapshot of President Harry S. Truman speaking with his sister, Mary Jane, at an airport in Springfield, Missouri, where he will attend a 35th Division reunion. From: Mrs. Ralph E. Truman, Springfield, Missouri.

Seated on the front porch of the Gates home at 219 North Delaware, Independence, Missouri are, left to right: Fred Wallace, Bess Wallace, Frank Wallace, and George Wallace. From: Truman Home.

Portrait of Myra Gates, sister of Margaret Elizabeth Gates and aunt of Bess Wallace Truman.

Portrait of Maud Louise Gates, sister of Margaret Elizabeth Gates and aunt of Bess Wallace Truman.

Daughters of George Porterfield Gates. From left to right: Maud Louise, Margaret Elizabeth (Madge), and Myra. Madge is Bess Wallace Truman's mother.

Portrait of Margaret Elizabeth (Madge) Gates Wallace, mother of Bess Wallace Truman.

Portrait of Margaret Elizabeth (Madge) Gates, mother of Bess Wallace Truman.

Bess Wallace with a group of her relatives from Platte City, Missouri. From left to right: George Wallace, Gates Wells, unidentified, W.S. Wells, Louise Wells, William Strother Wells, Helen Wallace, John Wallace, Bess Wallace. From: Truman home, an album entitled "Postal Souvenirs."