Harris & Ewing

Signed portrait of Edwin W. Pauley addressed to Irving Giest.

Ralph K. Davies receiving Medal of Merit from President Harry S. Truman.

Press Secretary Charles Ross, met the press of the White House for the first time today. From: Papers of Charles G. Ross; 12x18 photo album, metal cover with letters CGR.

Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who steps out of office when Vice President Elect Harry S. Truman takes his oath of office on Saturday, shown at his office this morning packing books and important documents into trunks. From: Beth Gore.

David Wallace, 11, and Marian Wallace, 9, son and daughter of David F. Wallace, Sr., of Denver, CO, shown with their aunt, Mrs. Harry S. Truman, on the White House lawn today. From: Beth Gore.

Federal Communication Commission Commissioner Paul A Walker, right, is shown taking oath of office for a new six year term this morning. The oath was given by Justice Bennett C. Clark, left, of the District Court of Appeals. From: Beth Gore.

Margaret Truman, daughter of U.S. Senator Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman, warms up as she sings into an NBC microphone in preparation for the third annual Congressional Children's Broadcast. The Congressional Club sponsors the program full of talented congressional youngsters. NARA photo number 306-PS-51-4631. Photograph also found in the attic of the Truman Home. 

A new informal pose of Maurice Tobin who recently was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Truman. From: Beth Gore.

Secretary of Labor Tobin today told the House Ways and Means committee that "to be effective, old age benefits must be adjusted to levels more consistent with current wage levels and the cost of living." He is shown here as he urged Congress to expand the law to cover farm and domestic labor.

Allan Sproul, right, President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, today charged before the House-Senate Economic Committee that the Federal Reserve Board was proposing "clumsy methods" for dealing with monetary inflation. Sproul is shown here with Senator Robert A. Taft, Co-chairman of the committee. From: Beth Gore.