Presidents

Harry S. Truman arrives at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas. Returning to the area for the first time after becoming President, he is greeted by a crowd including his brother, J. Vivian Truman, and daughter, Margaret. The airplane is the "Sacred Cow". Original photograph is oversized. From: Transferred from Museum Collection in 1985.

Harry S. Truman is greeted by a crowd at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas upon his first return to the area after becoming President. Those identified are, left to right, Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence, J. Vivian Truman, brother of the President, and Margaret Truman, daughter of the President. Original photograph is oversized.

Left to right: Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence, J. Vivian Truman, brother of the President, Margaret Truman, daughter of the President, and President Harry S. Truman, at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas upon Mr. Truman's first return home after becoming President. The airplane is the "Sacred Cow". Original photograph is oversized. From: Transferred from Museum Collection in 1985.

Harry S. Truman is greeted by Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence, upon his first return to area after becoming President. They are at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas. The airplane is the "Sacred Cow". Original photograph is oversized. From: Transferred from Museum Collection in 1985.

Margaret and Harry S. Truman deplane at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas. This is President Truman's first return to Independence, Missouri after becoming President. Unidentified man behind them. The airplane is "Sacred Cow". Original photograph is oversized. From: Transferred from Museum Collection in 1985.

President Harry S. Truman, campaigning for the Democratic ticket in New Britain, Connecticut, sits at a piano in front of City Hall and plays for the thousands who turned out to see him. Margaret Truman is on the left. The others are unidentified. (See 70-482.) From: Charles McCormick.

President Harry S. Truman stands behind the speaker on the rear platform of a train during a 1948 campaign stop in New Mexico. Of those who can be identified are Margaret Truman and General Harry Vaughan on the right behind Margaret. (See 64-828-1 thru 11.) From: Robert McKeal.

President Harry S. Truman (right) and an unidentified man are photographed on the rear platform of a train during a 1948 campaign stop in New Mexico. (See 64-828-1 thru 11.) From: Robert McKeal.

Photograph of former President Harry S. Truman (center), President John F. Kennedy (left), and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) in a three-way handshake in front of the Grand Staircase in the Entrance Hall of the White House. (See 68-1024 for black-and-white autographed picture.) From: Brian Klaus.

President Harry S. Truman sits at his desk in the Oval Office and affixes his signature to the National Housing Bill, Public Law 171. Those who can be identified are, left to right, Senator Burnet Maybank (third from left, with head turned), Senator Ralph Flanders (fourth from left), Senator John Sparkman (fifth from left), and Housing Administrator Raymond Foley (sixth from left). (See 78-614 and 66-1919.) From: Nathaniel S. Keith