Congresses and conventions

National Re-employment Conference at the Red Cross Building in Washington, D. C., with Harry S. Truman (second row, second from the right) and others. All others are unidentified. (Left side of photo missing in original.)

President Harry S. Truman (front row, left) leaves after giving a speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) conference at the Lincoln Memorial. He is accompanied by (front row) Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter White, president of the NAACP; General Harry Vaughan and Captain James Foskett (second row, left to right); Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Senator Wayne Morse (third row, left to right, Vinson partly obscured by Foskett); and Attorney General Tom Clark (behind and to the left of Senator Morse in the bow tie).

President Harry S. Truman speaks from a rostrum on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, as he addresses the closing session of the 38th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Reflection pool and the Washington Monument are in background.

The Air Power Panorama at the Air Force Association Convention in San Francisco, California.

General Nathan Twining stands at the podium and gives a speech during the Air Force Association Convention in San Francisco, California. All others are unidentified.

Members of the Standing Group of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are attending the Lisbon Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Seated behind the table, from left to right: Colonel Charles H. Donnelly, Rear Admiral James H. Foskett, Lieutenant General Charles Faulkes, Chairman of the Military Committee, Lieutenant General Alfred Gruenther, and unidentified naval officer. All others are unidentified.

United States Delegate Raymond Foley attends the Pan American Convention of Architects in Mexico City, Mexico.

United States Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer (center foreground) is speaking with others while attending the Baguio Conference in Baguio, Philippines.

Dorothy (Mrs. Chester) Bowles greeting an unidentified man with another unidentified man behind her. She is at the Baguio Conference in Baguio, Philippines.

Haru (Mrs. Edwin O.) Reischauer at the Baguio Conference in Baguio, Philippines.