Fund raising

Adlai Stevenson addressing the audience from the podium at a banquet being held to honor former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. This fund raiser for the Democratic Party was held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Adlai Stevenson addressing the audience at the banquet in honor of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. This fund raiser for the Democratic Party was held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Adlai Stevenson and former President Harry S. Truman (at left) at the podium. Both were at the banquet for former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Many dignitaries attended this Democratic fund raiser at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Adlai Stevenson is at the podium speaking. Former President Truman can be partially seen in the far left corner. Many Democratic dignitaries are present at this fund raising event. It is a banquet being given in honor of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Adlai Stevenson at the podium. Former President Truman can be partially seen in the background. The fund raising banquet is in honor of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. It is at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, New York. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Former President Harry S. Truman (partially obscured at left) and Adlai Stevenson chat at the podium. There is a banquet being held in honor of Eleanor Roosevelt that is a fund raiser for the Democratic party. The event is at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, New York. Many dignitaries and entertainers are there. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Former President Harry S. Truman at the podium speaking at a dinner honoring former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In the background are, from left to right: Thomas Finletter, comedian Mort Sahl, Missouri Senator Stuart Symington, Senator John F. Kennedy, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Paul Butler, and New York Governor Averell Harriman. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Former President Harry S. Truman speaking to attendees at a banquet for former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In the background is Thomas Finletter and comedian Mort Sahl. The banquet was held in New York, New York at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. It was a fund raiser for the Democratic party. From: George S. Zimbel Collection. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Unidentified guests mingling before a dinner to honor former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. All are unidentified except comedian Mort Sahl (fourth from left) who is standing beside a lady. This fund raiser for the Democratic Party was held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (left), an unidentified young woman (center), and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (right) at a nation-wide radio broadcast from the White House to promote fundraising efforts for infantile paralysis. From the Scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 3.