Audiovisual Collection. 1957 - 2006. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman. 1957 - 2004. Photograph of Bess Wallace and Mary Paxton
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Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982
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Elizabeth Virginia “Bess” Truman was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She served as her husband’s secretary and was known for often voicing her opinions. Whistle-stopping in 1948, President Harry Truman often ended his campaign talk by introducing his wife as “the Boss” and his daughter, Margaret, as “the Boss’s Boss,” and they smiled and waved as the train picked up steam. The sight of that close-knit family gallantly fighting against such lo...
Keeley, Mary Paxton, 1886-1986
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Mary Paxton Keeley was born June 2, 1886 in Independence, Missouri. In 1910 she became the first female graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri. During the early to middle 1910s, Keeley was a reporter for the Kansas City Post, the first woman news reporter in Kansas City. Also in the middle 1910s, she was a student of Journalism with a specialization in home economics at the University of Chicago. From 1917 to 1918 (in World War I) she worked for the YMC...
