Presidential campaign trips

Harry S. Truman and others in front of plane, evidently to view flood damage in Washington and Oregon.

President Harry S. Truman (center) holds a pair of scissors after participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Washington Rehabilitation Center in Seattle, Washington. General Wallace Graham in on the right. Governor Mon Wallgren is second from the right. All others are unidentified.

A crowd gathers to greet President Truman during his visit to the Washington Rehabilitation Center.

Harry S. Truman views the damage of the floods on his western trip to Washington. This is an aerial view of the flood.

Harry S. Truman views the damage of the floods on his western trip to Washington. This is an aerial view of the flood.

President Harry S. Truman delivers a speech from the back of a train car in Galesburg, Illinois as part of a whistlestop campaign.

Distance view of President Harry S. Truman speaking to a large assembly in Chicago.

President Harry S. Truman speaking from a train on the campaign trail in 1948

President Harry S. Truman (right) returned to Union Station in Washington, D.C. after a trip for his Whistlestop Campaign Tour of 1948. He was joined by Margaret Truman (second from right) and Bess Truman (foreground, third from right) as well as other members of his staff. Others are unidentified.

The Santa Fe train that took President Harry S. Truman from Los Angeles to Kansas City during his West Coast campaign trip, June 3-18, 1948. From the album "President Truman's trip to the West Coast of the U. S."