Signs and signboards

Sign, "Welcome Home From the Crow-Eaters," on the front of the Washington Post Building in Washington, D.C. President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben W. Barkley had just returned to Washington after their victory in the 1948 election--a victory not predicted by the Washington Post.

Street sign in Key West, Florida at the intersection of Truman Avenue and Margaret Street. From: Album from Rear Admiral Robert Dennison.

Assistant Postmaster General Paul C. Aiken with a sign from the New Orleans Post Office wishing him a bon voyage on his trip to Guatemala.

Photograph of a sign taken during the U.S. Reparations tour "Let Us Have a Strong China, and Then The World Will Have Peace." Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Earl L. Shaner and A. B. Einig (right) in Berlin, Germany during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Cow in Calcutta, India, during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Plaque on the first courthouse in Jackson County, Missouri. It in inscribed: "The first courthouse of Jackson County. Erected 1827. Donated to the city by Christian Ott, Jr., Mayor of Independence. Removed to this site, 1916. This tablet placed by the Independence Pioneers Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Centennial Year 1927." From: Jackson County Historical Society.

Former President Harry S. Truman looking at a sign: "Independence. The Home of Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States."

Sign for Thomas Hart Benton Drawings, as follows: Displayed in this room is a selection of drawings, cartoons and studies used by Thomas Hart Benton in the execution of mural "Independence and the Opening of the West." They have been loaned through the courtesy of the artist.

Copy of a sign, which is a quote by W.F. Knox.