Acme Newspictures

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives a 47-pound turkey for Christmas from the National Turkey Federation. Foreground, from left to right: President Truman, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, Trever L. Jones, Director of the National Turkey Federation, and Albert E. Matlack, President of the National Turkey Federation. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (right) receives a 35 pound Christmas turkey from Springfield, Missouri. The turkey was presented to the President by Robert M. Calbert (left), President of the National Turkey Federation, who raised the bird. All others are unidentified.

Reproduction of the painting, "The Capture of Santa Fe," for a Special Delivery stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of the entry of General Stephen Watts Kearny into Santa Fe in 1846.

W. Averell Harriman is sworn in as Secretary of Commerce. Front row (l-r): W. Averell Harriman; Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Fred M. Vinson. Second row, left to right: Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson (partly obscured); Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan; unidentified; Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson.

Onlookers applaud W. Averell Harriman at the ceremony swearing him in as Secretary of Commerce. Pictured (l-r): Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug; Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan; Attorney General Tom Clark; Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Fred M. Vinson.

Clinton P. Anderson swears in as Secretary of Agriculture. Pictured (l-r): Henrietta (Mrs. Clinton P.) Anderson; Nancy Anderson; Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson; Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan; Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn.

Postmaster General Robert Hannegan (foreground, right) kisses the ring of Francis Cardinal Spellman (standing) during a formal reception welcoming the Cardinal that took place in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Seated on the left are, from left to right: Mrs. James F. McDonnell, Mayor William O'Dwyer, and Governor Thomas E. Dewey. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman speaks to a joint session of Congress regarding wage and price controls. Seated front row, left to right: Senator Elmer Thomas; Senator Claude Pepper; Senator George Aiken; Senator Elbert Thomas; Senator Homer Capehart; Senator Bourke Hickenlooper; Senator Homer Ferguson; Senator Clyde Reed; Senator Kenneth Wherry; Senator Robert Taft; Senator Alben Barkley; Senator Wallace White; Secretary of State George Marshall; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal; Attorney General Tom Clark; Postmaster General Robert E.

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee addresses a joint session of Congress. Senator Kenneth McKellar (left) and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (right) are seated directly behind the Prime Minister. Also present are (from left to right in the front row): Secretary of War James Forrestal, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, and Attorney General Tom Clark. All others are unidentified.

Francis Cardinal Spellman dining at an unknown event with several dignitaries. From left to right: unidentified, New York Governor Thomas Dewey, unidentified, Cardinal Spellman, Dean Acheson, and Postmaster General Robert Hannegan.