Portraits, Group

Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan (front row, fourth from right) in a group photo in front of the Northern Regional Laboratory in Peoria, Illinois. All others are unidentified.

Battery D at Camp Mills, New York. In this closeup, Captain Harry S. Truman is second from the left in the front row.

A grouping of eight people including children and adults standing in unknown location, relating to Charles Thayer in some way. One of the children may be Thayer's son James.

Interior view of Charles and Cynthia Thayer and members of their family on what appears to be christening day for their infant son James. Charles Thayer is standing behind his son and Cynthia Thayer and her daughter Diana Cochrane is seated at right. Standing beside Charles Thayer may be Cynthia's father James C. Dunn. Seated on the left may be Cynthia's mother. Other two girls in photograph are unknown as well as the exact location.

Daughters of George Porterfield Gates. From left to right: Maud Louise, Margaret Elizabeth (Madge), and Myra. Madge is Bess Wallace Truman's mother.

Bess Wallace with a group of her relatives from Platte City, Missouri. From left to right: George Wallace, Gates Wells, unidentified, W.S. Wells, Louise Wells, William Strother Wells, Helen Wallace, John Wallace, Bess Wallace. From: Truman home, an album entitled "Postal Souvenirs."

Members of the Gates and Wallace families gather for the funeral of George Porterfield Gates. From left to right: Oscar Wells, George Wallace, Helen Wallace, John Wallace, Bob Wells, Louise Wells, Frank Wallace, Bess Wallace, Gates Wells, Maud Gates Wells, Fred Wallace, Frank Gates.

Tintype of two unidentified women who may be Wallace relatives. From: Eric Fowler.

Group photo of unidentified meeting. American Legion Commander Paul H. Griffith is seated in the center at the end of the table.

Tintype of four young men, probably members of the Wallace family (ancestors of Bess Wallace) but unidentified. From: Truman home.