Dedication services

Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers (on podium), shakes hands with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who laid the cornerstone for the CIA's new 5 million dollar building. The present director, Allen Dulles, is on the right of the President, while Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, chaplain of the Senate, is on the platform behind Adm. Souers.

Holding a bouquet of roses, Bess Truman sits next to her husband, former President Harry S. Truman, with Margaret Truman standing behind, inside the new Post Office in Maryville, Missouri. Mr. Truman spoke at the dedication of the new building before a crowd estimated at 2,500. From: Found in a box of miscellaneous photographs in the audiovisual area.

President Harry S. Truman, followed by Brig. General R. Dinwiddie Groves and an unidentified officer, moves down a long line of Army personnel and shakes hands with each individual. All are there to attend the dedication of the new Organized Reserve Corps Armory at 1600 Central, Kansas City, Missouri. (See also 77-1715 and 1716.) From: Reserve Officers Association

Malcolm MacIntyre, Undersecretary of the Air Force, presenting the Air Force Flag at the dedication of the National Guard Memorial in Washington, D.C. From left to right: General Harry Vaughan; Major General Ellard A. Walsh; Senator Carl Hayden; Former President Harry S. Truman; Mr. MacIntyre; Major General William H. Harrison, Jr.; Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) William H. Dickinson; Governor J. Caleb Boggs, Delaware.

Dedication ceremony of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. Pictured left to right in front row: unidentified, Sam Rayburn, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, former President Herbert Hoover, former President Truman and Basil O\'Connor at Podium, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. From: Copied from photographs loaned to the Library by Mary Shaw Branton.

Dedication ceremony of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. Pictured left to right in front row: unidentified, Independence Mayor Robert P. Weatherford, unidentified, Sam Rayburn, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, former President Herbert Hoover, former President Truman, Basil O'Connor, unidentified at podium. from: Copied from photographs loaned to the Library by Mary Shaw Branton.

Standing in the backyard of Mr. Truman's home at 219 N. Delaware in Independence, Missouri, with drink in hand, former Secretary of Treasury John Snyder (center) speaks with former President Harry S. Truman and former European Theater Chaplain, Monsignor L. Curtis Tiernan (left). The men are relaxing after attending dedication ceremonies for the new Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. From: Truman Library Dedication.

Standing on the speakers' platform set up in front of the new Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren is shown giving the principal address at the dedication ceremonies. From: Truman Library Dedication.

A view of the speakers' platform at groundbreaking ceremonies for the $1,750,000 Harry S. Truman Library to be erected at Slover Park, on grounds donated by the City of Independence, Missouri. Of those who can be identified is Margaret Truman (background, left). (See also 59-576 and 2007-142 and 143.) From: Truman Library Dedication.

Robert T. Weatherford, Mayor of Independence, Missouri, at the podium on the speakers' platform addresses the crowd gathered for groundbreaking ceremonies for the $1,750,000 Truman Library to be erected at Slover Park on grounds donated by the City of Independence, Missouri. (Cropped version of 59-579) From: Truman Library Dedication.