Dedication services

Basil O'Connor, Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Harry Truman Memorial Library, stands at the podium and addresses the crowd at groundbreaking ceremonies for the $1,750,000 Truman Library to be erected at Slover Park on grounds donated by the City of Independence, Missouri. (See also 94-209.) (Slightly smaller version of 59-577) From: Truman Library Dedication.

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

President Harry S. Truman bows his head in prayer during the benediction after the cornerstone laying ceremony for the District of Columbia Courthouse.

Latest informal photo of Mrs. Harry S. Truman, wife of the President, and her daughter, Margaret. Photo was taken at the Washington National Airport yesterday. Mrs. Truman was christening hospital airplanes (this was the famous occasion when Mrs. Truman couldn't break the champagne bottle). From: Beth Gore.

President Truman is shown seated beside Governor and Presidential candidate of 1948, Thomas E. Dewey, in the Mayor's Review Box during the United Nations cornerstone ceremony in New York City.