Governor Thomas E. Dewey stands at the rostrum to accept the Republican nomination for president during the Republican National Convention in a packed Philadelphia Convention Hall. From: University of Rochester.
Democratic National Committeeman for Pennsylvania Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh hands the gavel to Democratic National Committee chairman J. Howard McGrath to open the 1948 Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia's Convention Hall. The word "Proof" is stamped across the photograph.
The back of former president Harry S. Truman's head at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL. Taken by Dr. Richard A. Brickley and sent by Lisa Brickley.