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Associated Press Truman's Biog of His Mother

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1435 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: circa 1947 Pagination: 1 photo ; b&w Order a Copy

One photograph of a biography of Martha E. Truman, mother of President Harry S. Truman. Image provides details of her life. Wire transfer text details that the the president had written this on a flight from Washington, D.C. to her home in Grandview, Missouri.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Truman, Martha Ellen Young, 1852-1947

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