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Groundbreaking ceremony for Truman Library

2007-385
Accession Number
2007-385
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348338269
Keywords
Ex-presidents
Friends and associates
Legislators
Presidential libraries
HST Keywords
Missouri - Cities - Independence - Truman and friends; Slover Park; Truman - Library - Ground Breaking - HST; Truman - Dignitaries - Senators - Symington, Stuart
People Pictured
Landry, Robert B. (Robert Broussard), 1909-2000
Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981
Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Westwood, Paul, 1908-1979
Rights

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Credit:
Harry Barth

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Left to right: Robert B. Landry, Senator Stuart Symington, former President Harry S. Truman, Edwin Pauley (seated), and Mike Westwood at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library. The city of Independence donated Slover Park for the Harry S. Truman Library grounds. From: Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.
Date(s)
May 8, 1955