National Park Service

Presidential airplane, The Independence.

President Harry S. Truman (left) meets with Governor Adlai Stevenson at the White House.

President Harry S. Truman receiving a cake for his 67th birthday in the White House.

President Harry S. Truman receives a piano at the White House for National Music Week, May, 1951. The piano was constructed as a joint and cooperative work of all the members of the Piano Manufacturers Association. The materials that went into its production came from many of the member states of the United Nations.

President Harry S. Truman and Anna Roosevelt, President Roosevelt's daughter, (foreground) at Union Station in Washington, D.C., after the funeral services at the White House for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Harry Vaughan is standing behind Truman to Truman's left. Others are unidentified.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman, and Vice President Henry Wallace seated in the back of a car among a crowd of people greeting them at Union Station in Washington, DC.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) receiving a group of Boy Scouts at the White House in celebration of National Boy Scout Week. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (center) and representatives from Girls Nation at the White House. The delegates were in Washington attending the Fourth Girls Nation of the American Legion Auxiliary. All others are unidentified.

Army-Navy Union members at the White House, presenting a gold life membership plaque to President Harry S. Truman (seated). All are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman poses with the winners of the "Voice of Democracy" Contest. L to R: Commissioner of Education Dr. John Studebaker, Janet Gerster from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Rose Ellen Mudd from Missoula, Montana; President Truman; Alice Wade Tyree of Lawton, Oklahoma; Laura Shatte of Hagerstown, Maryland; and Senator James Murray of Montana.