Dolls

Photograph of a first ladies figurine taken from a LIFE Magazine article published in conjunction with the 1949 Presidential inauguration.

From a souvenir album of the Missouri State Fair held in Sedalia, Missouri, August 18 through 26, Miss Missouri Doll, official souvenir of the Fair.

Faded color snapshot of a doll presented to a young girl by Bess Truman at a Congressional Club luncheon. (See also 2009-1812) From: Truman Home.

Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago with former President Harry S. Truman, who is holding Smokey Bear stuffed animals.

Two young female German children holding a baby doll in Berlin, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Miniature doll replica of a production of "Autumn Crocus" starring Margaret Truman, including stage and audience, at the Drury Lane Theater, Chicago, Illinois, a south-side summer theater. Dolls in the front row of the audience are identified as Harry, Bess, and Clifton. From: Peter M. Plotke, The Journal, Wulfing Publications, Lake at William St., Lansing, Illinois