Rites and ceremonies

Lookouts scan the seas for Davy Jones. This is a scene from a crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Lookouts scan the seas for Davy Jones. This is a scene from a crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Lookouts scan the seas for Davy Jones. This is a scene from a crossing the equator ceremony on the U. S. S. Missouri. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

A weary pollywog submits to treatment by a shellback "Medico". This is a scene from a crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Two well dressed pollywogs. This is a scene from a crossing the equator ceremony on the U. S. S. Missouri. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

A recalcitrant pollywog is chained out where he can cool off. An unidentified seaman participates in the crossing the equator ceremony on the U. S. S. Missouri. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

A group of pollywogs seamen patrol the ship. This is a scene from a crossing the equator ceremony on the USS Missouri during President Harry S. Truman's return trip from Brazil. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

The "gentlemen of the press" find there is no class distinction among pollywogs, during a crossing the equator ceremony on the U. S. S. Missouri. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) is signing the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 with guests in the Oval Office. Standing, from left to right: unidentified; Senator Styles Bridges; Congressman Overton Brooks; Congressman Carl T.

President Harry S. Truman speaking at the Commencement Exercises at Howard University. Original is oversize.