Photographer/Studio: Grinter Studio; submitted by Harry S. Truman Library via Benedict K. Zobrist (Independence, MO)
Description: Bess Wallace poses with her friend Mary Paxton. They wear high menswear collars and large lapels. Bess would later marry Harry S Truman, future President of the United States. Mary became the first female graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and worked as a reporter and educator.
Coverage: United States - Missouri - Jackson County - Independence
Date: 1901
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives and the Harry S. Truman Library
women, portraits, fashion, hats, truman, elizabeth virginia wallace (1885-1982), keeley, mary gentry (paxton) (1886-1986), famous missourians, bess truman, bess wallace, first ladies, mary paxton
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