International News Photos

Preparations for the first televised address at the White House, Sunday, October 5, 1947. President Harry S. Truman (left, behind lectern) urged viewers to save food for Europe. Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee, stands next to the president. A cameraman looks through a large television camera at right. From: Charles Ross Papers, 12x18 Metal Album.

Press Secretary Charles Ross posting the official announcement of the seizure of the nation's railroads by Presidential order in an effort to avert a transportation tie up by the strike, due to be called tomorrow, amid a scene of wild confusion as reporters flash the news by telephone to their offices. From: 12x18 Metal album with letters CGR.

Jawaharlal Nehru (right), Prime Minister of India, during his visit to the United States, converses with Col. Francis W. Williams (left), pilot of the President's Plane, The Independence, and his wife, Irene.

Harry and Bess Truman at dockside saying good-bye to Clifton and Margaret Daniel who are leaving on the S. S. United States for a vacation in Europe. Left to right: Harry Truman, Margaret Truman Daniel (holding William Wallace Daniel), Clifton Daniel (holding Clifton Truman Daniel), and Bess Truman. The ship is in the background. Similar to 86-65 and 61-40. From: May Wallace.

President Harry S. Truman, full length, deplaning the airplane Sacred Cow, followed closely by May and George Wallace. Donor: May Wallace.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson is shown shaking hands with a hospitalized Negro man at an unidentified location. From: Dean Acheson Papers.

President Harry S. Truman, left, presented with a framed copy of a Zionist resolution which thanked him for his work on behalf of the recognition of the state of Israel. Senator J. Howard McGrath (right), Democrat from Rhode Island, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made the presentation for the Zionist Organization of Portland, Oregon.

Formal portrait of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, seated in front of the flag of his office.

Eben Ayers, Assistant Press Secretary, in his White House office.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) in his office in the White House with Frank Land (standing, third from left) and the National Officers of the Imperial Council of the Shrine of North America. Others are unidentified.