Receptions

Bess Truman (right) talks with an unidentified woman at a reception honoring Perle Mesta held at the Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. (See also 2009-1754.) From: Truman Home.

Bess Truman (second from left) talks with an unidentified woman at a reception honoring Perle Mesta held at the Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. (See also 2009-1754.) From: Truman Home.

At a reception at the Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C., honoring Perle Mesta, Minister to Luxembourg, are: Left to right: Perle Mesta, Bess Truman, Georgia Neese Clark (Treasurer of the United States), India Edwards (the hostess), and Mrs. Charles W. Tillet, formerly director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee. From: Truman Home.

President Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Bess Truman greet ladies in a receiving line at unidentified reception, probably in the Washington, D. C. area. President Truman is shaking hands with (possibly) a Salvation Army lady. There is an unidentified women standing beside the Truman's, second from left. Transferred from museum collection 10/2009.

Tea drinking at the Emperor's Hunting Grounds, in Tokyo, Japan. Edwin Pauley seated, facing the camera. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

View of table at the dinner honoring President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Left to right, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Alice (Mrs. Dean) Acheson, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, and an unidentified man. All others in background are unidentified.

Distance view of the crowd at dinner honoring President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Left to right, First Lady Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, Marian (Mrs. Max) Truitt (daughter of Alben Barkley), Vice President Alben Barkley, and President Harry S. Truman attending the inaugural gala at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C.

President Harry S. Truman poses with performers at the inaugural gala held at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. From left to right, Edgar Bergen, Joan Davis, Lena Horne, Margaret O'Brien, George Jessel, unidentified man, Dorothy Maynor, unidentified man (partly obscured), unidentified woman (partly obscured), President Truman, Phil Harris (partly obscured), Alice Faye, Phil Regan, unidentified woman, Lucy Monroe, unidentified man, Jane Powell, unidentified woman, Gene Kelly.

President Harry S. Truman poses with performers at the inaugural gala held at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. From left to right, Lena Horne, Margaret O'Brien, George Jessel, unidentified man, Dorothy Maynor, unidentified man, unidentified woman (partly obscured by Truman), President Harry S. Truman, Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Phil Regan, unidentified woman, Lucy Monroe, unidentified man, unidentified man (partly obscured), Jane Powell, Gene Kelly, Sally De Marco, Tony De Marco.