Presidential libraries

From left to right, former President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, and Mary Jane Truman sitting with others on platform in front of Shelter House in Slover Park. Donor: Kenneth Thompson

Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, Bess Wallace, and Robert P. Weatherford in background. Alonzo Gentry left foreground. The event is the ground breaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. Donor: Kenneth Thompson

Entrance to the museum in the Harry S. Truman Library.

Full sized replica at the Truman Library of the President's Office (Oval Office) in the West Wing of the White House as it was when occupied by President Harry S. Truman.

The full sized replica of the Oval Office at the Harry S. Truman Library, contains a mantel and portraits of South American liberators. This view of the Oval Office reflects how it looked when it was occupied by President Harry S. Truman.

The museum lobby of the Harry S. Truman Library showing the United Nations Signature Table, bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a painting of President Harry S. Truman.

This masonic exhibit, located at the Harry S. Truman Library, represents President Harry S. Truman's role as a Mason as well as past Presidents who were Masons.

This postcard of the main museum room of the Harry S. Truman Library, shows exhibits, pictures, and documents representing all the Presidents of the United States. Inauguration bibles are in the foreground.

The Buffalo Mantel from the State Dining Room of the White House, with a Dutch painting that formerly hung in the White House located in the Harry S. Truman Library. The painting is called "At the Beach of Scheveningen," by Hendrik William Mesdag.

This postcard shows a Persian Isfahan rug, 12 x 16.7 feet, from the Shah of Iran. The center design represents the crown jewels of Iran. This rug is in the museum collection of the Harry S. Truman Library.