President Harry Truman, Key West, Florida, 1951
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United States Secret Service agent Morgan L. Gies was responsible for White House vehicles from 1941 to 1967, serving five presidents. This photograph from his personal collection shows President Harry S. Truman on vacation in Key West, Florida. Agent Gies stands by the driver's door of Truman's presidential convertible, a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan.
United States Secret Service agent Morgan L. Gies was responsible for White House vehicles from 1941 to 1967, serving five presidents. This photograph from his personal collection shows President Harry S. Truman on vacation in Key West, Florida. Agent Gies stands by the driver's door of Truman's presidential convertible, a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
21 November 1951
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2011.241.14.13
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Edward L. Gies in Memory of Morgan L. Gies.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.063 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Type-written caption affixed to back: November 21,1951 - President Truman in Key West, Florida in the 1949 Lincoln. Secret Service Agent, Morgan L. Gies is standing by the driver's door. [President Truman is actually standing outside the limousine. - PMF]
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