Farmers

Potato harvest, with a team of mules pulling an unidentified man seated on a vehicle. From: George Smith, Agricultural Extension Service.

Four mules being driven by two unidentified men. From: George Smith, Agricultural Extension Service.

From Left to Right, Mary Jane Truman, Harry S. Truman, Laura Everhart, Myra Colgan Hornbuckle, J. Vivian Truman, and Nellie Noland spend time together on the farm. From: Kansas City Star files

Vivian Truman, brother of President Truman, on his farm near Grandview, Missouri. Vivian Truman is dressed in work clothes and holding a piglet.

Trucks lined up with farmers waiting to unload wheat. Photo sent to Senator Harry S. Truman by Herman Wenzel, of the H. Wenzel Tent and Duck Company. Mr. Wenzel was seeking Senator Truman's assistance in getting the War Production Board to allocate more canvas for making tarpaulins to cover trucks shipping agricultural products. The photo is inscribed: "This truck shows tarpaulin. Nearly all trucks have one. These are farmers trucks waiting in line to unload their wheat."

President Harry S. Truman with Mr. John Oeser of Westside, Iowa, who won the "Typical Midwest Farmer of 1945" contest. From left to right: Mrs. John Oeser, President Truman, and John Oeser. From: Mrs. Ralph Hennings (Gift of John Oeser).

Good photo of Vivian Truman posing by a haystack. Caption says "A good prop." One of a series of photos from Mary Jane Truman's Christmas Album, 1906. From: Copied from photos lent to the Harry S. Truman Library by Martha Ann Swoyer, daughter of Vivian Truman.