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Associated Press The Trumans View a Portrait

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1456 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Independence, Missouri Type: Photograph Date: 6 November 1950 Pagination: 1 photo ; b&w Order a Copy

One photograph dated November 1, 1950 of President Harry S. Truman with his sister Mary Jane Truman. In the middle is a painted portrait of their mother and the president.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Truman, Mary Jane, 1889-1978
Truman, Martha Ellen Young, 1852-1947

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