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Lacquered decorative box, HSTR 25243

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Japanese Lacquered Box
Gift to Truman from Croil Hunter, Northwest Airlines president, 1948. Ca. 1650

Over 53,000 artifacts from the Truman Home, Truman Farm Home, and related buildings are associated with the Trumans and their extended family. Proper management and storage of these artifacts is an essential part of the cultural resources program. The artifacts are significant resources for presenting Harry Truman's private life through their display in the homes and in our Visitor Center.

 
WWI Trench art toothpick or match holder

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Trench Art
Toothpick or match holder, souvenir from Verdun, France, WWI. Made from rifle cartridges and portion of a mortar shell casing.
HSTR 22707

Approximately half of the artifacts in the collection are stored and maintained at an off-site storage facility. Most of the stored artifacts were removed for preservation purposes from the basement, second floor and attic of the Truman home, and from the carriage house/garage. The remainder are on display in the Truman Home and Farm Home. Furnishings on the first and second floors of the Truman home remain essentially where they were when the NPS acquired the home in 1983.

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President Harry S. Truman speaking in Detroit on the campaign trail in 1948. Credit: Truman Library

Did You Know?
The Soviet Union began the Berlin blockade in the hope that the Allies would be forced to abandon West Berlin. In response, President Truman ordered the Berlin airlift, which supplied West Berlin by air and lasted almost a year.
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