Audiovisual Collection. 1957 - 2006. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman. 1957 - 2004. Photograph of President Truman decorating Colonel Justice M. Chambers of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve with the Medal of Honor for heroism on Iwo Jima in 1945,

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Audiovisual Collection. 1957 - 2006. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman. 1957 - 2004. Photograph of President Truman decorating Colonel Justice M. Chambers of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve with the Medal of Honor for heroism on Iwo Jima in 1945, as Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall (left) and members of the colonel's family look on

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Harry S. Truman Library

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Rowe, Abbie, 1905-1967

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Abbie Rowe was a photographer for the National Park Service in Washington D.C., and had unprecedented access to the official activities of five Presidents from 1941 through 1967. He was born on August 23, 1905 in Strasburg, Virginia. He was first hired in 1930 with the Bureau of Public Roads, and went on to become a noted photographer for the National Capital Parks of the National Park Service. Many of his photographs documented public buildings and roads in and around the nation's capital. In D...