Rites and ceremonies

The Grand Consistory Conferral Team of the Grand Consistory of Japan on the occasion of the first conferral in full uniform.

Former President Harry S. Truman with family and friends at the groundbreaking at the Harry S. Truman Library. L to R: Basil O'Connor, Former President Harry S. Truman, Former First Lady Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, Mary Jane Truman, Elmer Ellis, and others. Donor: Dorothy Feeback.

President Harry S. Truman is shown with military officers at the dedication of a National Guard Armory in Kansas City, Missouri. This includes an original negative. Donor: Dorothy Feeback.

President Harry S. Truman is shown with military officers in line as he greets each at the dedication of a National Guard Armory in Kansas City, Missouri. This includes an original negative. Donor: Dorothy Feeback.

President Harry S. Truman signs the Fair Labor Standards Act, raising minimum wages to seventy-five cents an hour, with labor and government officials on hand for the ceremony in the White House. Looking on are (top left) Solicitor of the Labor Department William S. Tyson, (leaning over the president's right shoulder) Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin, (leaning over the president's left shoulder) President of the American Federation of Labor William Green, and (far right) President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Jacob S. Potofsky.

President Gerald R. Ford, with the aid of an officer, places a wreath on former President Harry S. Truman's grave in honor of President Truman's birthday.

Stuart Symington (center) presenting the pen used by President Richard Nixon in signing the bill changing the name of Kaysinger Dam to Truman Dam into law, to Philip C. Brooks, Director of the Truman Library. Jay B. Dillingham is at left.

From left to right, First Lady Bess Wallace Truman, President Harry S. Truman and Margaret Truman at the Christmas tree lighting ceremonies at the White House. They are standing in the doorway of the White House.

President Harry S. Truman looks on as President Eurico Dutra of Brazil is presented with a key to the city from the Commissioner of Washington, D.C., John Russell Young.

At the ceremony officially returning Seoul to President Syngman Rhee and re-establishing Seoul as the capital of the Republic of Korea, (sitting on platform left to right) General Douglas MacArthur, President Syngman Rhee, Mrs. Rhee, and Defense Minister Shin Sung-Mo.