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Removing the Presidential Seal

60-9-13
Accession Number
60-9-13
5x7 inches (13x18 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348101929
Keywords
Photographers
Presidential libraries
HST Keywords
Truman Library - Presidential Seal Removal
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Credit:
Cecil H. Schrepfer
Harry S. Truman Library

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Loren Raines (left) and John Martino (right, behind Seal) remove the Presidential Seal while Dick Corliss (in coat) and photographers from the Kansas City Star document the event. The seal was removed so that the mural by Thomas Hart Benton, "Independence and the Opening of the West" could be painted on the wall.
Date(s)
June 1959