Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986

Portrait of W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce.

President Harry S. Truman with selected Cabinet members. Front row, left to right: John Snyder, Dean Acheson, President Harry S. Truman, Fred Vinson, James P. McGranery. Back row, left to right: Clinton Anderson, Tom Clark, Charles Brannan, Louis Johnson, George Marshall, Averell Harriman, Maurice Tobin, J. Howard McGrath, Oscar Chapman. Duplicate is 58-575.

President Harry S. Truman with Dean Acheson and George Marshall. W. Averell Harriman is partly obscured at far right. President Truman is being greeted at the airport upon his return from visiting Wake Island to see General Douglas MacArthur. See 65-2463 for duplicate photograph.

Meeting of the Board of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs. From left to right: Dean Acheson; Boyd Shafer; Pete Kyle McCarter; Robert Vosper; W. D. Aeschbacher; James V. Jones; Rufus Burrus; Lyman Butterfield; Jacob Potofsky; former President Harry S. Truman; Tom L. Evans; Philip C. Brooks; David Lloyd; Earl J. McGrath; Dr. Wayne C. Grover; Elmer Ellis; James Sellers; W. Averell Harriman; John Burnett.

At a conference with his chief advisors on international affairs, President Harry S. Truman today decided that the European Recovery Program must be continued vigorously on a large scale to bolster Western European democracies against Communism. Left to right are: President Truman, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Paul Hoffman, Economic Cooperation Administrator, and W. Averell Harriman, Roving Ambassador. Same as photo 65-1388.

President Harry S. Truman meets with a delegation of officials from Great Britain on board the presidential yacht, the USS Williamsburg. Standing, from left to right: Ambassador Walter S. Gifford, General Omar Nelson Bradley, Sir Oliver Franks, Lord F. A. Cherwell, Lord Hastings Ismay, and W. Averell Harriman. Seated, from left to right: Sir Anthony Eden, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett.

Special Assistant to President Truman (1950-51) Averell Harriman at his desk working. Transferred from the Museum collection.

President Harry S. Truman throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game, Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C. To the right of the President are: Bucky Harris, New York Yankees; President Clark Griffith of the Washington Senators; and Casey Stengel, manager of the New York Yankees. Vice President Alben Barkley and Bess Wallace Truman are to the left of President Truman. Behind Vice President Barkley is General Harry Vaughan. Behind President Truman is Averell Harriman. Standing behind Bucky Harris is President Truman's secretary, Matthew Connelly.

President Harry S. Truman poses with his Cabinet seated around a table in the Cabinet Room, 1948. From left to right: Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug; Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; Federal Works Administrator Philip B. Fleming; Assistant to the President John R. Steelman; Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson; Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal; Secretary of State George C. Marshall, President Truman; Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; and Attorney General Tom C. Clark.

President Harry S. Truman after his return from the Wake Island Conference with General Douglas MacArthur. From left to right: Special Assistant W. Averill Harriman, Defense Secretary George C. Marshall, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador Philip Jessup, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Army Secretary Frank Pace and General Omar Bradley.