Presidential campaign, 1948

From left to right, Margaret Truman, First Lady Bess Truman, and President Harry S. Truman greet the crowd as they exit the limousine in Marion, Illinois as part of a visit to the Veterans Hospital there. The Trumans were in Illinois during the 1948 presidential campaign.

President Harry S. Truman waves as he shakes the hand of Vice Presidential nominee Alben Barkley from the rear platform of the presidential campaign train. Margaret Truman also appears on the the platform. The president promised Senator Barkley that he would "fight like hell" to get elected, as they embark from Union Station in Washington, DC, on a 19-state election tour. From: Chicago Sun-Times. 

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.

President Harry S. Truman smiles and holds his hat while displaying a paddle with the inscription, "For Use On Republicans Only!" from the rear platform of his campaign train. The paddle was a gift for the president during his campaign stop in Akron, Ohio. From: New York Herald Tribune.

From the rear platform of his campaign train, President Harry S. Truman holds out a paddle with the inscription, "For Use On Republicans Only!" The paddle was a gift for the president during his campaign stop in Akron, Ohio.

Sam Myres, noted saddle manufacturer, gives President Harry S. Truman a pair of silver spurs in El Paso, TX, during his campaign visit there. NARA photo 306-PS-50-10054.

President Harry S. Truman holds six year old Frances Friedel on the rear platform of his train during his whistlestop tour through Waseca, Minnesota, during the presidential campaign. Frances was aboard the train to present corsages to the First Lady and Margaret. Donor: New York Herald Tribune. Photograph was touched up by newspaper for publication.