Steelman, John Roy, 1900-1999

President Harry S. Truman and members of staff gather to pose for a picture while on vacation in Key West, Florida. The party is shown on the lawn at Truman's vacation residence, the Little White House, on the naval base. Front row is Miss Margaret Truman. Seated in the second row from left to right: Press Secretary Charles Ross, First Lady Bess Truman, President Truman, John Steelman, and William Hassett. Standing in the back row from left to right: Colonel Cornelius J. Mara, General Harry Vaughan, Matt Connelly, Stanley Woodward, and Admiral Robert Dennison.

All hands turn out to welcome Press Secretary Charles Ross and Matthew Connelly to Key West, Florida. From left to right: Donald Dawson, Wallace Graham, Charles Ross (back to camera), Harry Vaughan (wearing long-sleeved shirt, obscured by Connelly), Matthew Connelly (facing right), unidentified man in striped shirt, Margaret Truman, unidentified man, John Steelman (mostly obscured by Truman), President Harry S. Truman, General Robert Landry, Governor Mon Wallgren, and Admiral Robert Dennison. From the scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 4.

Members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party are sitting in the lawn of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Front Row, left: Harold Enarson, Dr. John Steelman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, William Hassett, Irving Perlmeter. Standing, left: Eben Ayers, David Stowe, General Wallace Graham, General Harry Vaughan, Joseph Short, Admiral Robert Dennison, General Robert Landry, Philleo Nash, and Charles Jackson.

President Harry S. Truman, center, seated, holds a press conference on the Little White House lawn in Key West, Florida during his vacation. Standing in the background, from left to right: six unidentified men, Admiral Robert Dennison, Admiral William Leahy, Sidney Souers, George Elsey, John Steelman, General Robert Landry, William Hassett, unidentified, Colonel Cornelius Mara, Press Secretary Joseph Short, and Joseph Feeney. All others are unidentified.

Members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party relax on Truman Beach during a visit to Key West, Florida. Those that can be identified include Press Secretary Joseph Short (standing, third from left); John Steelman (seated, left); Stanley Woodward (sixth from left, standing behind wall); General Wallace Graham (seated, center, back to camera); and Admiral Robert Dennison (third from right, seated). All others are unidentified.

Members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party relax on Truman Beach at Key West, Florida. Among those that can be identified are Eddie Jacobson (seated in shirt and slacks, left); John Steelman (standing, fourth from left, near post); Admiral Robert Dennison (standing, fifth from left, in dark sunglasses); Stanley Woodward (standing on opposite side of wall, in striped swim trunks); General Harry Vaughan (seated in from of Woodward, holding papers); and David Lloyd (seated, right). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman seated with his presidential party at the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Front row from left: Dr. John Steelman, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, President Truman, Admiral William Leahy, Correspondence Secretary William Hassett. Back row, from left: William Bray, General Robert Landry, Admiral Robert Dennison, Chief of Protocol Stanley Woodward, Press Secretary Charles Ross, General Harry Vaughan, General Wallace Graham, Assistant Press Secretary Eben Ayers.

President Harry S. Truman is seated with his vacation party that went to the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: Philleo Nash and Russell Andrews. Middle row, left to right: Matthew Connelly, John Steelman, President Harry S. Truman, William Hassett, Charles Ross. Back row, left to right: William Hopkins, David Stowe, General Wallace Graham, General Harry Vaughan, Clark Clifford, Admiral Robert Dennison, General Robert Landry, and George Elsey.

President Harry S. Truman (standing, center) holds a press conference on the lawn of the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Standing behind President Truman are, from left to right: John Steelman, Admiral William Leahy, William Bray, General Robert Landry, General Wallace Graham, Eben Ayers, Press Secretary Charles Ross, and Admiral Robert Dennison. All others are unidentified.