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Margaret Truman is seen taking a picture during a picnic lunch in garden at Little White House, Key West, Florida. Left to right: Donald Dawson, Stephen Spingarn, Charles Ross, William Hassett, Margaret Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (center, foreground) smiles broadly on his return from a trip to the Dry Tortugas Islands, site of Old Fort Jefferson National Monument. He is walking along a dock at the U.S. Naval Base at Key West, where he is on vacation. On the right wearing the cap is William Hassett.

Color mounted photo showing the President, seated, during a 3:30 press conference on the north lawn of the Little White House at Key West, Florida. The press are shown surrounding the President with members of his staff behind him including, John Steelman in light blue shirt beside military person, Joseph Feeney, just behind the President with cigarette in hand, William D. Hassett, next to Feeney, Joseph Short, next to Hassett, and Robert Dennison next to Short. From: HST estate 12/3/1974; transferred from Museum Collection 5/28/1975.

President Harry S. Truman (on left in foreground) at the Auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. This is his first trip back to Independence since becoming President. Standing in the front row, far left is unidentified, Matthew Connelly, Major General Harry Vaughan and Captain James K. Vardaman.

President Harry S. Truman and members of his party pose for a group photo on the lawn of the Little White House in Key West, Florida, while on vacation. Front row, left to right: Philip Maguire, Bruce Forsyth, George Elsey, Joseph Feeney, David Lloyd, Stephen Spingarn. Second row, left to right: Clark Clifford, William Hassett, John Snyder, President Truman, John Steelman, Charles Ross, Frank Pace. Back row, left to right: Charles Murphy, Robert Landry, Robert Dennison, Harry Vaughan, Wallace Graham, David Niles, Donald Dawson.

Two unidentified men bend over a White House Guard shot down in a gun battle in front of Blair House, the residence of President Harry S. Truman, during an assassination attempt on the President. It is evidently Leslie Coffelt, who was killed in the attack.

From left to right, Press Secretary Charles Ross, President Harry S. Truman, and William Hassett on the lawn of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Written on back of snapshot, in Margaret Truman's handwriting: "Dad, Charlie (Mr. Ross) and the 'Bishop' (Mr. Hassett) in yard of Little White House - Key West, Nov. 29th, 1949."

President Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman upon their return to the newly renovated White House, reopened to the First Family after three years of repair and reconstruction. From left to right: Usher Charles Claunch, President Truman, Chief Usher Howell G. Crim (partly obscured), Mrs. Truman, Chief Butler Alonzo Fields, Assistant to the Chief Usher J. B. West, Project Manager for Public Buildings, William Kelley, and Jess Larson, General Services Administration.

Sport shirts of assorted designs and colors highlight the press conference held by President Harry S. Truman (center) on the lawn of the "Little White House" during his 9th trip to Key West, Florida. Standing in the background are John Steelman (sixth from left), Charles Murphy (eighth from left), Joseph Feeney, William Hassett, Joseph Short, Robert Dennison, and Robert Landry (ninth from left to right). All others are unidentified.

In a ceremony on the White House lawn, President Harry S. Truman (right) shakes hands with his Administrative Assistant, David K. Niles, and inspects the Medal of Merit which he has just awarded to Mr. Niles. From: David K. Niles.