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President Harry S. Truman is chatting with several members of his vacation party who have just boarded the presidential yacht, the USS Williamsburg. From left to right: Colonel Wallace Graham (far left, in swim trunks); Reconstruction Finance Corporation Director George Allen (behind Graham, mostly obscured by Truman), President Truman, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Ted Marks, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan (back to camera), Press Secretary Charles Ross, Correspondence Secretary William Hassett, and Major General Harry Vaughan.

President Harry S. Truman meets with members of his staff during a trip to Olympia, Washington. From left to right: Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly, Press Secretary Charles Ross, President Truman, and an unidentified reporter.

This is a color snapshot of an oil painting. The oil painting was done by Ms. Adele Travisano for the Medford City Hall. It is a painting of President Harry S. Truman (left) with Mr. Alonzo Fields, White House butler. Original is SL2485.

Group photo of President Harry S. Truman and his party while on vacation at Key West, Florida. President Harry S. Truman and his advisors pose for a photograph inside the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: John R. Steelman, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, President Truman, Admiral William Leahy, William Hassett. Back row, left to right: William Bray, General Robert Landry, Admiral Robert Dennison, Stanley Woodward, Charles Ross, General Harry Vaughan, General Wallace Graham, and Eben Ayers.

President Harry S. Truman (seated, center) speaks with reporters while his advisors stand in the background. Standing behind President Truman are (from left to right): five unidentified men; John R. Steelman; Roger Tubby; unidentified military officer; Charles Murphy; William Hassett; Joseph Short; two unidentified partly obscured men; Joseph Feeney; and General Robert Landry. The press conference was held in the garden of the Little White House in Key West Florida during the President's vacation. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (seated on the right, smiling at the camera) gives a press conference in the garden of the Little White House, in Key West, Florida. Assistant to the President John R. Steelman is standing second from the right. William Hassett is standing on the right. Captain Cecil Adell is fourth from the right. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (second from right) talks with an unidentified officer on board the USS Missouri. Also present are (left to right) James Foskett, William Hassett, Matthew J. Connelly, and John R. Steelman. President Truman and members of his party are on board the USS Missouri as they return to the United States from an official visit to Rio de Janeiro.

After being sworn in as John Steelman's assistant, David H. Stowe (left) and Steelman (right) pose for a photograph in Steelman's office. Stowe's title became Deputy to the Assistant to the President.

President Harry S. Truman and members of his party aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt as they observed naval exercises of the Eighth Fleet off the Virginia Capes. From left to right; unidentified naval officer; unidentified man; Captain Clark Clifford; Admiral William Leahy; Press Secretary Charles Ross; Colonel Wallace Graham; Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal; William D. Hassett; President Harry S. Truman; Edwin Locke; John R. Steelman; Colonel Harry Vaughan; and unidentified man.

After being sworn in as John Steelman's assistant, David H. Stowe (left) and Steelman (right) pose for a photograph in Steelman's office. Stowe's title became Deputy to the Assistant to the President.