Women

The Snyder family and Truman family standing on the White House grounds as President Harry S. Truman presents a Medal for Merit to Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder. From left to right: Miss Drucie Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, President Truman, Mrs. Evlyn Snyder, and First Lady Bess Wallace Truman.

Sailors and hostess at a tea party at the Young Men's Christian Association building in Brest. Donor: Frank Freidel, who purchased the photographs from the National Archives.

Former President Harry S. Truman with women at Sundial at the Truman Library. The sundial was a gift of the Women's Jefferson Democratic Club, Independence, Missouri. Mrs. W. L. C. Palmer and Mrs. John (Adelaide) Twyman are on either side of Truman. Mrs. D.C.M. Hart is wearing white gloves and is standing by the sundial.

Women loading train cars at the subsistence warehouse, Nevers, France, during World War I. Donor: Frank Freidel, who obtained these photographs from the National Archives.

President Harry S. Truman (left) is presented a poppy by Mrs. Walter G. Craven on Poppy Day. Mrs. Craven is National President of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Women welders during World War One. Donor: Frank Freidel, who obtained these photos from the National Archives.

Portrait of Anna Lord Strauss used in her oral history interview. She was a member of the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights and President of the League of Women Voters from 1944-1950. Donor: Ms. Strauss.

Mary Jane Truman (front row, second from the left) standing among a group of unidentified men and women in Dallas, Texas. In the front row on the right is Mrs. Edna Rodgers, wife of the Dallas mayor James Woodall Rodgers.

Mary Jane Truman (second from the left) standing with three unidentified women in Dallas, Texas. The event is unknown, but is probably related to the Order of the Eastern Star, with which Miss Truman was involved.

This photograph shows a group of women--members of the Women's Auxiliary of the Retail Druggists' Association of Kansas City--looking at an exhibit of tableware during their visit to the Harry S. Truman Library.