First ladies

President and Mrs. Truman with dignitaries (backs turned) attended commemorative exercises at the Lincoln Memorial, held by the District of Columbia Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. L to R: General Ulysses S. Grant III, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, General Harry Vaughan and W. Elkins Reed.

President and Mrs. Truman with dignitaries attended commemorative exercises at the Lincoln Memorial, held by the District of Columbia Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. L to R: W. Elkins Reed, General Harry Vaughan, Admiral William Leahy, President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, and General Ulysses S. Grant III.

President Harry S. Truman with Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman (center back, wearing large white corsage) standing at the podium at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel. A second Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner was also held at the Statler Hotel.

President Harry S. Truman and dignitaries facing the Lincoln Memorial in the foreground with the crowd in the background. From left to right, (backs to the camera) Ulysses S. Grant III, Mrs. Bess Truman, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, General Harry Vaughan and W. Elkins Reed.

L to R: Jose Iturbi, Margaret Truman, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, and President Harry S. Truman at a concert. Similar to 59-883.

L to R: Archibald Roosevelt, President Harry S. Truman, and First Lady Bess Wallace Truman standing in front of the Oscar Straus Memorial Fountain.

President Harry S. Truman (left) standing next to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt accepting France's Medaille Militaire, France's highest military medal, posthumously to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The medal was presented by French ambassador Henri Bonnet. The medal was presented at the French Embassy. Source, New York Times, 7-15-1947, p. 25.

President Truman speaks from a rostrum on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as he addresses the closing session of the 38th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Senator Wayne Morse is seated on the right in the first row. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is seated second from the right on the first row, next to Senator Morse.

President Harry S. Truman after his speech to a Joint Session of Congress, pictured with Mrs. Truman and select Cabinet members. Left to right, front row: Secretary of State George Marshall, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, President Truman. Back row, left to right: Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, Attorney General Tom Clark and Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross.

Movie stars and the Truman family participate in Roosevelt Birthday Ball activities at the White House. Left to Right: (back row) Jo Stafford, Eleanor Lambert, Angela Lansbury, Helen Sioussat, Eddie Bracken, Paul Henreid, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Cesar Romero, and Lucy Monroe. Left to Right: (front row): Van Johnson, Ilene Woods, Diana Lynn, Margaret Truman, Margaret O'Brien, President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Constance Moore.