Mesta, Perle, ca. 1890-1975

President Harry S. Truman at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. From left to right: Senator Alben Barkley; Assistant Secretary of Labor David Morse; Senator and Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath; Perle Mesta, Co-Chairman of the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Committee; President Truman; Wilson Wyatt, Chairman of the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner Committee; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson. Same as photo 77-436.

From left to right, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, Mrs. Perle Mesta, President Harry S. Truman, Miss Margaret Truman and two unidentified men at the Inaugural Ball.

President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman at the 1949 Inaugural Ball at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C. From left to right: unidentified man, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, Ms. Perle Mesta, President Truman, Margaret Truman, Inaugural Ball Co-Chairman Edgar Morris, and Arthur Bergman.

From left to right, two unidentified women, Martha Mitchell, Perle Mesta and Ilona Massey attend the P. T. Barnum Tent of Circus Saints and Sinners.

From left to right, Rosemary Wilson, Perle Mesta, and Ilona Massey attend an unknown event.

From left to right, two unidentified women, Martha Mitchell, Perle Mesta, and Ilona Massey attend the P. T. Barnum Tent of Circus Saints and Sinners.

Margaret Truman (left) stands with and says goodbye to United States Envoy to Luxembourg Perle Mesta (right). They are standing at the border between France and Luxembourg during Margaret's European vacation.

Left to right: Perle Mesta, unidentified boy, Margaret Truman, and Anna Rosenberg. They are in New York City, in the Park Sheraton Hotel.

Margaret Truman sits to the left of the speaker, Thomas Watson, at a luncheon honoring Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, given by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Watson and Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Woll at Hotel Pierce in New York City. Perle Mesta is on the speaker's right, and to her right is Matthew Woll. (See 2009-1966 and 1967.)