President Harry Truman Arriving at U. S. Naval Station Memorial Chapel, Key West, Florida, 1952

THF208673 / President Harry Truman Arriving at U. S. Naval Station Memorial Chapel, Key West, Florida, 1952

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Artifact Overview

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 Gies behind the wheel of President Harry S. Truman's presidential convertible, a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan. It was taken during Truman's 1952 vacation in Key West, Florida.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

23 March 1952

Collection Title

Morgan L. Gies Presidential Vehicles Photographs Collection

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2011.241.14.14

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: March 23, 1952 - President Truman in Key West, Florida in the 1949 Lincoln, driven by Morgan L. Gies. He is at the U.S. Navy Station Memorial Chapel.

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