Presidential campaign trips

Five-year-old Kathleen Meldrem presents an ear of corn to President Harry S. Truman while he was en route to Dexter, Iowa during the 1948 presidential campaign. from the campaign scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (right) walks through a doorway with Colorado Governor William L. Knous (second from right) during a campaign stop in Denver, Colorado. All others are unidentified. From the Campaign Scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with Herb Plambeck, National Plowing Match Director at the National Plowing Match in Dexter, Iowa. Others in the background are unidentified. From the Campaign Scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (left), First Lady Bess W. Truman (second from left), and Margaret Truman (behind Mr. Truman, partly obscured) are walking through a building, past a line of well-wishers, during a campaign stop in Denver, Colorado. All others are unidentified. From the campaign scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman and family wave to supporters from the rear of the presidential train in Des Moines, Iowa during the 1948 presidential campaign. From left to right are: Iowa Governor Robert D. Blue, Democratic candidate for Iowa Governor Carrol Switzer, President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman. Others in the background are unidentified. From the campaign scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman is conferring with Iowa Democrats aboard the presidential campaign train in route to Dexter, Iowa. Seated from left to right, are: Colonel B. J. Palmer, President Harry S. Truman, and Hugh Harrison. Back row, from left to right: Guy Gillette, Jim France, Carroll Switzer, Ralph Evans. From the campaign scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

A crowd of unidentified people, including two children with a mule, are waiting at the railway station for the arrival of President Harry S. Truman in Dexter, Iowa. President Truman spoke at the National Plowing Match in Dexter.

President Harry S. Truman (center) is shaking hands with the winners of the National Plowing Contest in Dexter, Iowa. On the left is defending champion Ronald H. Orr of Beatrice, Nebraska, and on the right is new champion Charles G. Long of Bethany, Missouri. Others in the background are unidentified. Mr. Truman stopped in Dexter as part of his presidential "whistlestop" campaign. From the campaign scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman (center) is standing on the rear platform of the Presidential Rail Car with Margaret Truman (right) and Kentucky Senator Alben Barkley (left) as Truman leaves to begin the first leg of his 1948 presidential campaign "whistlestop" tour. From the campaign scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman eats lunch with farmers in Dexter, Iowa at the National Plowing Contest. President Truman (center) is seated with Howard Walker of Dexter, Iowa (left), and Ralph Mortimer of Dallas Center, Iowa (right). Mr. Truman made a campaign speech at the Plowing Match before sitting down to lunch. From the campaign scrapbook of Harry S. Truman.