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The Noland Home---Cake Plate and Pictures Audio Description
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Cake Plate and Pictures, 3:20 minutes: On the table where the phone and volume controls are located is a bronze-colored replica cake plate; please feel free to touch it gently. Mounted just above is a panel with text and a graphic of a cake plate. Text reads: “The Courtship Begins. Harry Truman had help in winning Bess’s heart. By a happy coincidence Bess lived across the street from his cousins Nellie and Ethel. During a visit in 1910, twenty-six-year-old Harry volunteered at “the speed of light” to return a cake plate to 219 North Delaware, where Bess had lived since 1904. Bess answered Harry’s knock on the door and invited him inside. It took him two hours to deliver the plate. Within a year, Harry had a standing invitation to Sunday dinners with Bess’s family.” To the right of the table and phone, mounted on the wall, are six black and white photographs arranged in a style typical of a family home of that era. An oval-framed print is of young Truman with a hat, jacket, white shirt and narrow black tie, behind his two female cousins wearing white blouses and flat hats topped with flowers. Text reads: “Harry Truman felt very close to his cousins throughout his life. Truman titled this photo, taken around 1905, ‘This is Us’. Nellie (left) and Ethel Noland.” A square-framed print is of Truman and four smiling people in a row boat near a riverbank. Truman is at the oars. Text reads: “Trying to win over Bess Wallace, Harry Truman took her fishing in August 1913.” A square-framed print of a young Truman depicts him at the wheel of a vintage black convertible with right-side steering, running board and spoke wheels; three women accompany the future president. Text reads: “Harry Truman bought this 1911 Stafford car for practical purposes. The vehicle made his courtship with Bess much easier. Riding with Harry and Bess are Ethel Noland alongside Mary Jane Truman (far right), Harry’s sister.” Another oval-framed print shows Truman’s two cousins posing in long-sleeved, high-necked white dresses. Text reads: “Ethel (left) and Nellie Noland at the Truman farm in Grandview, about 1911. The cousins visited often, keeping Truman in touch with news from Independence.” A rectangular-framed print shows Truman from behind sitting on a horse-drawn cultivator, tending to his crops. Text reads: “Harry Truman working on the farm, about 1910. He left a bank job in Kansas City four years earlier to help run the family farm in Grandview.” Lastly a rectangular-framed print of 31 young men and women arranged on steps in front of a building with a wide arched doorway. Truman’s and Bess’ images are circled, Truman is the fourth person from the left in the top row; Bess is the first person on the right side in the second row. Text reads: “Although he had a crush on Bess, Harry Truman was too shy to sit by her in their 1901 Independence High School graduation photo. ‘ … I thought she was the most beautiful and sweetest person on earth.’”
Description
An audio description of the Foyer and Parlor of the Noland Home.
These files are being provided via this page until we can upgrade and install a new audio description service in FY 2024.
The audio files make reference to reproduction telephones...this service is intended to temporarily replace that.
Date Created
05/16/2023
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