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Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986

National Security Resources Board Meeting

Meeting of the National Security Resources Board. Seated, from left to right: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; National Security Resources Board Chairman Stuart Symington; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early; Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin; and Presidential advisor Averell Harriman.

President Auriol Receives Gifts

From left to right: President Harry S. Truman; French Ambassador Henri Bonnet; President of France Vincent Auriol; and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman look at an album of National Park pictures that President Truman gave to President Auriol. W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President (standing, left), looks on. All others unidentified.

Cabinet Meeting

President Harry S. Truman with members of his Cabinet and other officials, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. From left to right around table: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer; Special Assistant to the President W.

Army-Navy Football Game

Front row of the presidential box, from left to right: General Wallace Graham; unidentified; W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President; unidentified; unidentified; President Harry S. Truman; First Lady Bess W. Truman; Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark; and Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder watch the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also pictured: General Harry Vaughan (standing behind President Truman); and General Robert Landry (seated, between President and Mrs. Truman). All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Cabinet Greets Queen of the Netherlands

President Harry S. Truman (left, back to camera) stands with Queen Juliana (right of Truman with fur coat) and Prince Bernhard Leopold (right of Juliana in military garb) as they greet members of Truman's Cabinet at Washington National Airport. Standing in line from left to right: two unidentified people; Director of Mutual Security Administration W. Averell Harriman; Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer; Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (shaking hands with Queen Juliana); Nell (Mrs.

Equestrian Statues Dedication

Secretary of State Dean Acheson (at podium) speaks during the dedication ceremony at Arlington Memorial Bridge for the equestrian statues given to the United States by Italy. Also pictured, front row: President Harry S. Truman (left); Italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi (third from right); and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (right). Seated in the second row of chairs on the left are Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman, General Wallace Graham (partly obscured by post), General Robert Landry, and General Harry Vaughan. All others unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman's Party

Group photograph of President Harry S. Truman and his staff while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: Richard Neustadt, Cornelius Mara, Joseph Feeney, Philleo Nash, Irving Perlmeter. Center row, left to right: John Steelman, Admiral William Leahy, President Truman, Averell Harriman, Charles Murphy. Back row, left to right: Robert Landry, Robert Dennison, Stanley Woodward, Matthew Connelly, William Hassett, Joseph Short, Harry Vaughan, and Wallace Graham.