Rivers

Postcard picturing the Delaware River Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, addressed to former president Harry S. Truman from Walter von Broock, Sparta, New Jersey, 9/5/54. Part of a postcard booklet containing eighteen postcards. Copyright 1937.

Postcard picturing the picturesque Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, addressed to former president Harry S. Truman from Walter von Broock, Sparta, New Jersey, 9/5/54. Part of a postcard booklet containing eighteen postcards. Copyright 1937.

Postcard picturing Promontory View, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania addressed to former president Harry S. Truman from Walter von Broock, Sparta, New Jersey, 9/5/54. Part of a postcard booklet containing eighteen postcards. Copyright 1937.

Norris Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority's water control project on the Clinch River in northeast Tennessee. It was completed in 1936 and is 265 feet high and 1,860 feet long. It helps control seasonal floods, aids navigation on the Tennessee and lower Mississippi Rivers in months of low flow and provides for the incidental production of electric power.

View looking north up the Hudson River from the grounds of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Part of the Soldier's Monument shows in the foreground.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Potomac River, as viewed from the Washington Monument, Washington D.C.

Photo taken of Bess Wallace Truman and Harry S. Truman during their courting days. They are seated among friends in a rowboat on the Little Blue River. L to R: Mrs. Emma P. Southern, mother of May Wallace, Bess Wallace (holding a fishing pole), Harry S. Truman, an unidentified man, and a young woman, probably Natalie Wallace. Others in the boat are unidentified. A letter to Bess from Harry, dated August 5, 1913, mentions preparing to go with her on a fishing trip on the Little Blue River. Copied from a photo album lent to the Truman Library by May Wallace.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, Montrose, Colorado, taken and donated by Eagle Scout Dale Gallagher.

Bridge over the river Seine, probably taken in Paris during World War I. From: Truman house, album of 35th Division clippings and snapshots.

The river Seine, looking from the Pont de Alexandre III, in Paris during World War I. From: Truman house, album of 35th Division clippings and snapshots.