Airports

President Harry S. Truman giving a speech on the airfield after arriving in San Juan, Puerto Rico with dignitaries looking on.

President Harry S. Truman (holding hat) walking with Governor Jesus T. Pinero (in white suit) on the airfield after arriving in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Snapshot of an unidentified man standing in front of a hangar at the Orlando Municipal Airport. The photo is from the James E. Webb papers, and it is concluded that the series of snapshots numbered 97-1653 through 97-1727 are of places he had visited and his relatives or acquaintances. Each includes an original snapshot size negative and is on a contact sheet of three pictures a page.

Snapshot of an unidentified man in the viewing box at an unknown aeronautical event. The photo is from the James E. Webb papers, and it is concluded that the series of snapshots numbered 97-1653 through 97-1727 are of places he had visited and his relatives or acquaintances. Each includes an original snapshot size negative and is on a contact sheet of three pictures a page.

Snapshot of the landing strip at an unknown airport. The photo is from the James E. Webb papers, and it is concluded that the series of snapshots numbered 97-1653 through 97-1727 are places he had visited and his relatives or acquaintances. Each includes an original snapshot size negative and is on a contact sheet of three pictures a page.

Snapshot of unidentified man standing in front of a hangar at the Orlando Municipal Airport. The photo is from the James E. Webb papers, and it is concluded that the series of snapshots numbered 97-1653 through 97-1727 are of places he had visited and his relatives or acquaintances. Each includes an original snapshot size negative and is on a contact sheet of three pictures a page.

Former President Harry S. Truman (front row, second from left) and Averell Harriman (front row, second from right) with unidentified others in Kansas City at an airport.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) greets New York Governor Averell Harriman (right) at Municipal Airport in Kansas City, Missouri. Former Wichita Mayor and Harriman's Kansas campaign manager William C. Salome (left), and former Treasurer of the United States Georgia Neese Clark Gray (second from left) also met Governor Harriman on the tarmac. Harriman was starting a four-day tour of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, and South Dakota seeking votes for the Democratic Presidential nomination. See also 69-517.

President Harry S. Truman speaks to a large crowd at the airport as Secretary of State James Byrnes leaves for 21-power Peace Conference in Paris. Senator Tom Connally (left) James Byrnes (right) are also on the platform.

President Harry S. Truman waves his hat from the door of his airplane, the "Sacred Cow," as he prepares to leave Washington's National Airport for a Christmas trip home to Independence, Missouri. This is a crop of 73-2129.