Boys' societies and clubs

Photo of Boy Scout Band taken in Springfield, Missouri. Photo is inscribed "To Harry E. [S.] Truman, From the World's Largest Boy Scout Band. Lester Cox." Original is oversize.

President Harry. S. Truman (left) welcomes fourteen-year old Frankie Harrison (right), of Valdosta, Georgia in his office at the White House after he was selected the "National Boy of the Year" by the Boys Clubs of America.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman and an unidentified woman viewing exhibits inside the Palace of Pioneers in Sverdlovsk. Back of picture reads, "Gov. Harriman inspecting scientific models made by Young Pioneers (Soviet Boy Scouts) at Palace of Pioneers Sverdlovsk." Back also contains an inscription in Russian which was written by the deputy mayor Kurganov of Sverdlovsk. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman and an unidentified woman viewing exhibits inside the Palace of Pioneers in Sverdlovsk located in central Russia. They are inspecting scientific models made by Young Pioneers, Soviet style Boy Scouts. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

President Harry S. Truman greets representatives from the Sixth Annual American Legion Boys Nation.

President Harry S. Truman greets representatives from the Sixth Annual American Legion Boys Nation.

President Lyndon B. Johnson (far right) and James E. Webb (second from left, Director of NASA) speak to a group of boys, "space cadets," during an event at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.