First ladies

President Herbert Hoover and Mrs. Lou Hoover in side by side oval shaped portraits. Donor: Orbra E. King

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Donor: Orbra E. King

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower in side by side portraits. Donor: Orbra E. King

Bess Wallace Truman at four years of age.

President Harry S. Truman (right) returned to Union Station in Washington, D.C. after a trip for his Whistlestop Campaign Tour of 1948. He was joined by Margaret Truman (second from right) and Bess Truman (foreground, third from right) as well as other members of his staff. Others are unidentified.

Bess Wallace at the age of thirteen years old. She is wearing an elaborate straw hat. From: Truman home.

Tennis players on the Park Avenue tennis court belonging to the Southern (May Wallace's) family. L to R: Jack Montague, Alden Millard, George Wallace, Bess Wallace, Mrs. Emma P. Southern, Caroline Southern, Dorothy Patterson, Natalie Wallace, Helena Crow, Frank Wallace, Edwin Patterson. From an album in the Truman house entitled "Postal Souvenirs."

Bess Wallace Truman on the porch of her family home at 219 North Delaware, holding baby Margaret Truman. This picture was taken the same year Margaret was born. From: Truman house.

Slightly blurred photo of Bess Wallace Truman ice-skating on a frozen pond. There is an unidentified lady to her left.

Bess Wallace in a long dress and long gloves, leaning on a table. On July 23, 1906 she sent this oval-shaped photograph to William Bostian, who had been a neighbor and was the son of the Independence postmaster William Bostian. The inscription (which is on a separate sheet in the manuscript collection) says "I only hope you feel repaid for waiting so long, Bess, July the twenty-third, nineteen and six." Donor: Mrs. Ann Copeland, niece of William Bostian.