Gifts

President Harry S. Truman (center) holding a silver platter sent to him from Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero, President of Peru; also pictured is Foreign Minister Dr. Enrique Garcia Sayan and others (unidentified).

President Harry S. Truman (left) receiving a gavel from Frank Houston, President of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, after President Truman's speech at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Independence Day. Virginia Governor William M. Tuck pictured center. Same as 59-1388.

President Harry S. Truman receiving a large firecracker with his initials on it, from 3 1/2 year old Michael Dene Condatore. E.F. Harloff, Publicity Chairman, America's Cavalcade of Freedom, 1947, accompanied the youngster. They are presenting President Truman with a ticket to Washington, D. C.'s Fourth of July fireworks display.

The Mayor of Santa Monica, California, Mark T. Gates (left) presenting President Harry S. Truman (right) with a scroll from the Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. The scroll is commemorating construction of the presidential plane, the Independence. The scroll contains the signatures of those who built the plane.

First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (second from the right) receives a native Philippine dress from Mrs. Helen Bennett-Pollicer (second from the left). Also present are Miss Vicky Quirino (left), and Angela Valdez Ramos (right).

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Theodore Roosevelt III, Col. J. Callan O'Laughlin, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt IV at the White House. Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the late General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., presents special set of 32 poster stamps to President Truman, commemorating the career of General Roosevelt, Jr. Colonel O'Laughlin is the publisher of the Army and Navy Journal. Similar to 68-1263.

President Harry S. Truman (left) with (left to right) Alexander Wiley Wilde (grandson of Senator Wiley), Eugene Haugh, and Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin. Mr. Haugh presented President Truman with some gifts from his hometown of Reedsburg, Wisconsin.

Former President Harry S. Truman with women at Sundial at the Truman Library. The sundial was a gift of the Women's Jefferson Democratic Club, Independence, Missouri. Mrs. W. L. C. Palmer and Mrs. John (Adelaide) Twyman are on either side of Truman. Mrs. D.C.M. Hart is wearing white gloves and is standing by the sundial.

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives a 900-year-old vase from Dr. E. W. Chang, head of the Coseoul Normal College of Korea. The vase is a gift to the American People.

President Harry S. Truman receives an oil painting from Jonkheer O. Reuchlin (right), Counselor of the Netherlands Embassy in Washington, and Herbert Creamer (left), President of the Netherlands American Institute. The painting, "At the beach of Scheveningen" was painted by Hendrik Willem Mesdag.