Postmasters

Paul C. Aiken, Postmaster General, seated second to right, is attending a meeting of New York Post Office Supervisors Association.

Paul C. Aiken, Postmaster General (center, back row), with the New York Post Office Supervisors Association.

Overview of banquet at the meeting of the New York Post Office Supervisors Association, which met at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. People at table are not identified.

President Harry S. Truman (standing on train platform, right) stands with Bernard F. Dickmann (left) and holds up the Chicago Tribune newspaper, showing the headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman". They are in the St. Louis, Missouri train station. All others are unidentified. From: Hon. Bernard F. Dickmann

Portrait of Bernard Dickmann, who was the postmaster and former mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, and a friend of Harry S. Truman. The photo is autographed on the matte "to my friend, John Snyder, 11/8/48, Barney Dickmann." From: Album of photographs (portraits) of members of Congress, White House office staff, and other government officials, each autographed for the Secretary of the Treasury, John Snyder.

At St. Louis Union Station, postmaster Bernard Dickmann (left) stands next to newly elected President Harry S. Truman as Mr. Truman holds up the famous Chicago Tribune newspaper headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." Man in background is unidentified. From: Campaign Scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, left) and New York Governor and Republican presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey (foreground, right) shaking hands at the dedication of Idlewild Airport. Standing between President Truman and Governor Dewey are New York City Postmaster Albert Goldman (left) and General Wallace Graham (right). Others are unidentified. From General Scrapbook, Volume 2, 1948-1950.

The first batch of the G.I. Bill Insurance Checks leaves the Treasury Department for local post offices where they will be held until January 16. Helping load the truck is Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson; and Veterans Administration Carl R. Gray, Jr.

Highway Post Office Inauguration, left to right: unidentified; Assistant Postmaster General John Redding; Elsie Bowen, Postmaster, Ogden; unidentified; Harry Gleason, Postmaster, Sioux City; unidentified; unidentified; Estelle Burroughs, Postmaster, Albion; Myrtle Stark, Postmaster, Boxholm; Edith Johnson, Postmaster, Des Moines; and Earl Patton, Postmaster, Danbury.

Former Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (right) and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt after the first annual dinner of the Eighth District Opti-Mrs. Council in St. Louis, Missouri.