Dedication services

President Harry S. Truman speaking from the flight deck of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, commissioning the 45,000 ton aircraft carrier at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. President Truman is in the area for Navy Day ceremonies. From the scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 1.

United States Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Tom C. Clark is sitting third from the right holding his hat on his lap. He is attending the dedication of the Boy Scout Memorial located at the Ellipse at 15th and Constitution Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C. At this event, Justice Clark was celebrating his 50th anniversary of being an Eagle Scout. The scout speaking at the podium and others in view are not identified.

Interior view showing a group of men and women seated in a room attending an event. The woman in the front row, second from the right in a light dress and hat is the wife of the United States Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952), Mrs. James C. Dunn (Mary). She is seen in Palermo, Italy attending, with the ambassador, the inauguration ceremonies of the enlarged quarters of the United States Information Service (USIS).

United States Ambassador to Italy, 1946-1952, James C. Dunn standing in front of an American flag. Photograph believed to have been taken on the occasion of the opening of the new enlarged office of the USIS (United States Information Service) in Palermo, Sicily, part of Italy.

Former President Harry S. Truman addresses a crowd at the dedication of the Maryville, Missouri, Post Office. Mr. Truman has written on the front of the photo: "File Ed Condon's file Maryville Post office dedication 2500 people there. Picture cuts them out."

President Harry S. Truman (at podium) is speaking at the dedication of Everglades National Park in Florida, while on vacation in Key West. Also present and visible behind the President are (from left to right): John Steelman, Clark Clifford, Admiral William D. Leahy, Stanley Woodward, and Major General Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified.

Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (center, second from left) takes part in the dedication ceremony of John F. Kennedy Square in Remiremont, France. The dedication was part of the celebration commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of Remiremont from the Germans on September 29, 1944 and to honor the men who died fighting for its freedom. All others in the crowd are unidentified.

On a platform at the Washington, D.C. airport, Margaret Truman stands after pulling strings which released rose petals and a flock of doves (who refused to fly) at the christening of "Capitaliner United States," the first of Capital Airlines new fleet of Constellations. (See 2009-1954 through 1959 and 77-1340.)

At the Washington, D.C. airport, standing on a platform, Margaret Truman closes her eyes, pulls the cord that releases rose petals and a flock of doves, and christens "Capitaliner United States," the first of Capital Airlines new fleet of Constellations. The two men in the photo are unidentified. Miss Truman named the plane "United States." (See 2009-1954 thru 2009-1959 and 77-1339.)

At the Washington, D.C. airport, an executive of Capital Airlines speaks to a group people gathered for the christening of the first of Capital's new fleet of Constellations. Margaret Truman (only partial view of her black hat is visible) sits to the right of the speaker and waits to do the honors. (See also 59-947 and 2009-1954 through 1959.)