Grinter Studio, Independence, MO

Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace, and Charles Ross, among others, posing for high school graduating class photo, Independence, Missouri, 1901. Back row: Henry Chiles; Elmer Twyman; William Lloyd Garrett; Harry Truman; Will Long; Myrtle Cronkhite; Laura Ford; Mary Anderson; Gertrude Dixon; Laura Kingsbury. Third row: Crawford Compton; Leura Walters; Katie Krey; Gertrude Reyner. Second row: Tasker P. Taylor; Louretta Meador; Minnie Carpenter; Grace Crandall; Mary Taylor; James T. Brown; Mary Chinn; Itaska Atkinson; Bertha Roberts; Bess Wallace.

Seated at a desk in the library is Carrie Wallace, first cousin of Bess Wallace and Librarian for Independence High School. From the album "Public Schools, Independence, Missouri, 1904." The album was loaned to the Harry S. Truman Library for copying by the Junior Service League and the Board of Education. The Board of Education has the original album.