Historic buildings

Frank Wallace, dressed in a suit, stands in front of the fountains at the White House, Washington, D.C. From: Truman Home.

Southwest view from the east basement entrance of White House during renovation. The Allis Chalmers Cletrac Diesel-powered shovel is being used to excavate below the basement floor. The earth is carried outside the opening in the south wall and loaded on trucks by a truck crane. Same as 71-285.

A postcard from the Virgin Islands showing the store in which Alexander Hamilton worked as a small boy.

Window openings provide bursts of light into the cavernous interior of the White House, supported only by a web of temporary steel supports. The exterior walls rest on new concrete underpinnings, which allow earth-moving equipment to dig a new basement.

Bess Truman sitting in an easy chair in a parlor at Blair House in Washington, D.C., is visited by two unidentified women and one unidentified man. From: Truman Home.

The Diwan-i-Khas, or the Hall of Private Audience, at Fatehpur Sikri in Agra, India. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by the United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party.

A view of a structure located with in the complex built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great, Fatehpur Sikri, India, near Agra. All individuals are unidentified. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by the United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party.

Former President Harry S. Truman plays the piano for President and Mrs. Kennedy and their dinner guests assembled in the White House East Room. The White House released this picture. Pianist Eugene List, who gave an after-dinner recital, stands at right. Visible in the front row, from left are: Mrs. Bess Truman, President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, partly hidden, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Same as 68-1026 and 93-384, but a better and clearer photo than either.

David Wallace, 11, and his sister Marian, 9, son and daughter of David F. Wallace, Sr., of Denver, Colorado, are shown with their aunt, Bess Wallace, on the White House lawn. (See also photo 99-1273.) From: Truman Home.

Southeast view in the main kitchen of the White House, after the renovation. Unidentified members of Congress and their wives are receiving a tour of the facilities.