Presidential residences

Summer view of sidewalk and back porch of the Truman home at 219 N. Delaware, Independence, Missouri, with pink roses climbing up the porch. From: Truman Home.

Window openings provide bursts of light into the cavernous interior of the White House, supported only by a web of temporary steel supports. The exterior walls rest on new concrete underpinnings, which allow earth-moving equipment to dig a new basement.

Bess Truman sitting in an easy chair in a parlor at Blair House in Washington, D.C., is visited by two unidentified women and one unidentified man. From: Truman Home.

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) having his picture taken by unidentified photographers while at his desk in the "Little White House." Truman is dictating to Yeoman Emil Kesselman, while on vacation at Key West, Florida.

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) having his picture taken by unidentified photographers while at his desk in the "Little White House." Truman is dictating to Yeoman Emil Kesselman, while on vacation at Key West, Florida.

President Harry S. Truman (center) inspecting the Marine Guard at the Little White House in Key West, Florida, at the beginning of his vacation. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (right) dictating a response to a telegram to Navy Yeoman Emil Kesselman at his desk in the "Little White House," his vacation residence in Key West, Florida.

President Harry S. Truman rides in a limousine that carries him to the Little White House, his vacation residence in Key West, Florida. In the back seat of the car, from left to right are: President Truman (partly obscured); Captain Cecil Adell, commanding officer of the naval base at Key West; and Admiral William D. Leahy. All others are unidentified.

The "Little White House," President Harry S. Truman's vacation quarters at Key West, Florida.

The North entrance of the White House is draped in black in mourning for President John F. Kennedy.