Political campaigns

Harry S. Truman, Democratic senatorial candidate. The photo is actually three head and torso portraits of Truman, one facing right, one facing center, and one facing left.

Flags and hot dog stands in Lamar, Missouri, awaiting Harry S. Truman's speech of acceptance of the Democratic nomination for Vice-President.

Judge and Democratic Senatorial candidate Harry S. Truman (left) with Representative John J. Cochran (right).

Senator Harry S. Truman attending the Missouri Democratic State Convention.

President Harry S. Truman rides with two Democratic candidates, Stuart Symington (center) and Phil Donnelly (right), on the way from Union Station to the Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. President Truman holds two apples in his hand.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with son James at his side, waves to a crowd of admirers. The event, location, and other people in the photo are unknown, though it appears to be a political rally. From: John Bosworth.

President Harry S. Truman speaks from the rear platform of a train at a whistlestop in San Marcos, Texas, during the 1948 presidential campaign. Left to right are: Ed Geisen, a local politician; Lyndon B. Johnson (partially obscured); President Harry S. Truman; Ed Cape, a banker; Laura Ramsay; and Judge Max Smith, a local County Judge. From: Charles Blankenship.

Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, speaking in Peoria, Illinois. Senator Truman is denying the charges that started in 1922 that he was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Former President Truman with three unidentified men walking through the streets of Evansville, Indiana. From a leather bound album of 25 photos of former President Truman attending the Kennedy-Welsh Dinner in Evansville, Indiana. Donated by Mayor Frank P. McDonald.

A group of men, women and children holding signs reading "Give 'Em Hell" Harry and other political slogans stand to see the President, who is out of sight. There are some African Americans in the crowd. This is a 9 x 14 photo.