Hospitals

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, fourth from left) with other dignitaries at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Also present is Oscar Ewing, Federal Security Administrator (foreground, left). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with a young man in a wheelchair at the Veterans' Hospital in Seattle, Washington, where he continues his West Coast Presidential campaign. Others in the photo are unidentified. (Same as 66-711) From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

As President Harry S. Truman's motorcade passes by the Naval Hospital at Bremerton, Washington, patients and personnel line the street to honor the President. Bremerton is one of the stops on his West Coast trip. (Same as 66-710) From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

First Lady Bess Truman (center) attending a luncheon for Providence Hospital in Washington, D. C. The ladies seated on either side of her are unidentified. Mrs. Truman's original handwriting is on the back of the photograph. Transferred from museum collection 10/2009.

Former President Harry S. Truman looks at a clipboard while Senator Dennis Chavez, a patient at the National Institute of Health, looks on. Other in the photo are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) shakes the hand of Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico at the National Institute of Health where Senator Chavez is a patient. Harry Vaughan is standing behind them at right. The other man is unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman looks at Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico as he signs a clipboard. Harry Vaughan is standing behind them. Others are unidentified. Senator Chavez, a long-time friend of Mr. Truman, is a patient at the National Institute of Health.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) is shown with an unidentified man before the Clinical Center, National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) shakes the hand of Senator Dennis Chavez, Senator from New Mexico, a long-time friend, at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where Chavez is a patient.

Interior wreckage in Peipiao Hospital in Peipiao, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).