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This week, we’re combining our #Harry140 commemoration & the anniversary of the surrender of Japan, ending World War II. This photo is from a different angle than our other photos of this event. https://t.co/PDrPdHf86D
While this looks like a familiar photo, this particular #Harry140 photo has an interesting story. This was the first ever color news photograph to be transmitted & received by radio waves & published. See the original photo here: https://t.co/xx14GITATg
#Harry140 photo this week shows former President Truman on vacation! In 1958, Harry & Bess went to Europe aboard the SS Constitution (Bess didn't like to fly). This photo shows HST chatting with an unidentified man, possibly a cameraman, on board the ship. https://t.co/Gdaa5MM5HS
This week’s #Harry140 photo shows a different angle of a familiar event – HST speaking at the closing session of the United Nations Conference. We don't always have motion picture footage of events, so having multiple photos can help reconstruct it. https://t.co/t6xhy1Dmod
As with another photo from earlier this year, this #Harry140 photo shows HST greeting visitors to the Truman Library! This young man in cowboy gear had his picture taken with HST & then sent this copy of the photo to Mr. Truman after his visit. https://t.co/e4Tk8Lz01e
In the early days of the Library, visitors might get the chance to meet Mr. Truman if they arrived or left at the same time as him. The Cropper family did that & took a picture with HST at the administrative entrance to the Library in 1960 for this week’s #Harry140 photo.
HST often received gifts & tokens of appreciation from groups that came to see him at the White House. In this 1952 #Harry140 photo, the National Cartoonist’s Society gives HST this bust of Abraham Lincoln. This bust is part of our Museum collection! https://t.co/QWIY7ugWkR
U.S. President Harry S. Truman born in Lamar, Missouri 140 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 8 1884) https://t.co/pqHofPq8up #Harry140
Happy birthday, Harry S. Truman! Today we commemorate the 140th anniversary of Mr. Truman's birth. This morning we had our official wreath-laying ceremony. #Harry140
Our #Harry140 photo this week shows HST at the Truman Library groundbreaking ceremony in May 1955, ready to put his shovel in the ground. With him are members of the Truman Library Foundation, which organized the fundraising drive to construct the Library. https://t.co/CcYkk8NZu5
This #Harry140 photograph of the Truman Library groundbreaking in 1955 came to us from Eliot Berkley, a history professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. It shows HST speaking to the assembled crowd gathered at the groundbreaking ceremony. https://t.co/A87meQe33Q
Today's #Harry140 post features the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Truman Library! The ceremony took place as part of Mr. Truman’s birthday celebration in 1955. In this photo, HST is holding a shovel-full of dirt while others in the background look on. https://t.co/Ifjz2BahQB
For #Harry140 this week, we have a wedding! Harry & Bess’s only child, Margaret, married Clifton Daniel on April 21, 1956. Many of the photos we have of Margaret’s wedding are copyrighted, as Life magazine covered her wedding & published many photos. https://t.co/jkfJigVGEV
This week’s #Harry140 photo is a post-Presidential one! People would often drive by the Truman Home, hoping to see a glimpse of Mr. Truman. They would catch him while he was outside & he would speak with visitors. https://t.co/lCnX9XlN0J
Our #Harry140 photo this week shows HST as an Army Reservist! This is from 1930 & shows HST (left) with John W. Snyder (center) & Harry Vaughan at camp in Fort Riley, Kansas. Snyder would go on to serve as Truman’s Secretary of the Treasury & Vaughan served as HST's military aide
#Harry140 this week is from one of HST's vacation trips! In February 1948, he visited Puerto Rico & Cuba in addition to Key West, Florida. This new photo to our collection shows him saluting unidentified servicemen before leaving the U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
#Harry140 photo this week is from the Greta Kempton Papers. It shows HST participating in a Masonic ceremony. Ms. Kempton painted a portrait of HST in his Masonic regalia as Grand Master of Missouri. Ms. Kempton used this for reference for her portrait. https://t.co/0Zj4cn0Kbi
This #Harry140 photo is one of few of HST during his short time as Vice President. This was taken on January 29, 1945 at the National Press Club. HST is playing piano & comedian Jack Benny is playing the violin. https://t.co/j0iZO1v1Z5
In this #Harry140 photo, former President Harry S. Truman is at an event at the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City! This event in 1955 honored Senator Clinton Anderson of Arizona, who served as Secretary of Agriculture during HST's first term. https://t.co/jk09VvVvXG
#Harry140 photo this week is from the papers of William Boyle, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during part of the years HST served as President. This photo shows HST enjoying the floats in the Inaugural Parade as they went by the reviewing stand.
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