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Truman talks with General Pick on a causeway at the Fort Peck Dam, Montana

2005-225
Accession Number
2005-225
4x5 inches (10x13 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350376100
Keywords
Armed forces officers
Dams
First ladies
Presidential trips
Presidents
HST Keywords
Dams - Montana - Fort Peck; Montana - Fort Peck Dam; Truman - Trips - Dams - Flood Control - Montana, Fort Peck Dam; Truman - Dignitaries - Military - Pick, Lewis A.; Truman - Bess - Trips - Other - Montana - Fort Peck Dam
People Pictured
Pick, Lewis A. (Lewis Andrew), 1890-1956
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
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Credit:
Charles J. Johnston
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description

President Harry S. Truman (second from right) talks with General Lewis A. Pick (third from right), Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, on a causeway at the top of Fort Peck Dam, Montana, during a stopover on the President's trip to the Pacific Northwest. Anna Dostert can be seen in the background holding on to her hat. The dam was developed for flood control and irrigation of the Upper Mississippi-Missouri River basin. From: Sister Andrea Johnston, SCL, St. Mary College, Leavenworth, Kansas 66048.

Date(s)
May 13, 1950