Presidents

Standing by the stairs under the wing of The Independence, President Harry S. Truman converses with Col. Francis W. Williams, Pilot, prior to boarding. From: Francis W. Williams Papers.

President Harry S. Truman, behind an "NBC West" microphone, delivers a speech while on the campaign trail in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (at the railroad station). Others on the podium are unidentified. The photo is autographed as follows, but the author is not Truman: "To my good friends, Rita & Clarence, Harry." From: Olga Tsapina, The Curator of American Historical Manuscripts, The Huntington Library.

President Harry S. Truman (right) with an unidentified man and woman at a reception. From: Reni Photos.

President Harry S. Truman (right) enjoys an animated conversation with two unidentified men at a reception. From: Reni Photos.

President Harry S. Truman (right) enjoys a conversation with an unidentified man and woman at a reception. From: Reni Photos.

President Harry S. Truman listens intently to an unidentified man and woman at a reception. From: Reni Photos.

President Harry S. Truman (left) talks with two unidentified women at a reception. From: Reni Photos.

President Harry S. Truman speaks from the steps of a building to a bi-racial audience. On his left are five Negro military men. The event, location, and date are unknown, though possibly in Kansas City.

President Truman pulls a rope which drops a commemorative stone from his boyhood home in Grandview, Missouri, into place at the Rollins College Walk of Fame. Watching is Dr. Hamilton Holt (right), President of Rollins College, who, a few minutes before, had conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities on Mr. Truman. Rollins College is in Winter Park, Florida. (Similar to 66-2052 and 68-1782. Also in album - 98-1582 to 98-1588)

Secretary of State Edward Stettinus (far right) and President Harry S. Truman approach the speaker's platform for the final session of the United Nations Conference on International Organizations, held at the San Francisco, California Opera House. President Truman is to give the closing address before hundreds of delegates from nations all over the world who met together and drew up a United Nations Charter, after nine weeks of study and debate, to insure world peace in the future.