Vice-Presidents

President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley arriving at the Presidential reviewing stand by car on inauguration day. Members of Battery D (Mr. Truman's World War I battery) escort the President's car. Donor: General Harry Vaughan for Major General Akins.

Left to right: Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, Mrs. Max Truitt, daughter of Vice President Alben Barkley, Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley, and President Harry S. Truman, leaving the Blair House for the Capitol on inauguration day. Donor: General Harry Vaughan for Major General Akins

Actress Lauren Bacall sits atop a piano while Vice President Harry S. Truman plays the piano at the National Press Club Canteen. They are at the canteen to entertain the servicemen. The Library has checked on copyright and found no one who claims ownership.

Vice President Harry S. Truman (left) with unidentified others at the Lincoln Memorial, celebrating Lincoln's birthday.

Vice President Harry S. Truman (second from left) with unidentified others at the Lincoln Memorial, celebrating Lincoln's birthday.

Vice President Harry S. Truman (left) with unidentified others at the Lincoln Memorial, celebrating Lincoln's birthday.

Vice President Henry Wallace witnessing the swearing-in of Harry S. Truman as his successor (Truman obscured).

A scene from former President Harry S. Truman's seventy-eighth birthday party at the President Hotel in Kansas City. Truman and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson are in far left background at the head table.

The head table, including Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (fourth from left) and former President Harry S. Truman (fifth from left), at Truman's seventy-eighth birthday party at the President Hotel in Kansas City.

Former President Harry S. Truman cutting the cake at his seventy-eighth birthday party luncheon at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. From left: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Truman, and Henry Talge.