Ships

Former President Harry S. Truman (third from left), with Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman (second from left) and Margaret Truman (second from right, partly obscured) are presented with leis and a key to the city by an unidentified woman upon their arrival in Honolulu on board the liner President Cleveland. The woman on the left is unidentified.

From left to right, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, former President Harry S. Truman, and Margaret Truman are presented with the key to the city of Honolulu by an unidentified woman. The Trumans arrived in Honolulu on board the liner President Cleveland for a month long vacation as guests of Edwin Pauley.

Former President Harry S. Truman (third from left), with Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman (second from left) and Margaret Truman (second from right, partly obscured) are presented with leis and a key to the city by an unidentified woman upon their arrival in Honolulu on board the liner President Cleveland. The man on the right is unidentified.

During his trip to Europe, former President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with an unidentified man as he sits on the deck of the steamship Independence as it sails from Naples to Genoa, Italy. The man sitting next to him is also unidentified. From: Sym Sinclair

During his trip to Europe, former President Harry S. Truman is photographed on the deck of the steamship Independence as he sails from Naples to Genoa, Italy. From: Sym Sinclair

Military personnel boarding an LST 45 at Hawaii, prior to departure to Eniwetok to participate in the experimental atom bomb tests.

Reflection of the blast of an atom bomb shows members of the crew aboard a Navy vessel watching the tests at the instant of detonation. Some crew members shield their eyes and turn their backs from the blast. Others, wearing glasses, face the blast.

3" x 3" faded Kodacolor snapshot of former President Harry S. Truman sitting on a sofa showing a book to Shirley Rutherford (Mrs. Stanley) Woodward. President Truman met Mr. and Mrs. Woodward upon arrival of the French liner "Ile-de-France" in New York City on September 10, 1957. Mr. Woodward, an old friend of Truman, was Truman's Chief of Protocol during his years in the White House. From: Museum Collection #93.12 (items found inside locked credenza in Harry S. Truman's working office at Truman Library).

3" x 3" faded Kodacolor snapshot of former President Harry S. Truman sitting on a sofa showing a book to Shirley Rutherford (Mrs. Stanley) Woodward. President Truman met Mr. and Mrs. Woodward upon the arrival of the French liner "Ile de France" in New York City on September 10, 1957. Mr. Woodward, an old friend of Truman, was Truman's Chief of Protocol during his years in the White House. From: Museum Collection #93.12 (items found inside locked credenza in Harry S. Truman's working office at Truman Library).

President Harry S. Truman (far left) is shown at attention aboard a ship with Admiral Robert L. Dennison (left of President Truman).