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Hannegan Signing Sheets of Stamps in Warm Springs

Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (seated) signing sheets of Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamps in Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia. Standing behind Hannegan from left to right: Third Assistant Postmaster General Joseph J. Lawler; Basil O'Connor, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; and Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall. Man standing in the background is unidentified.

Hannegan Passing Stamps Out to Patients

A group of polio patients receive Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamps from Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (standing center foreground) at Warm Springs, Georgia. Standing to the left of Hannegan is Georgia Governor Ellis Arnall. Standing at right of Hannegan is Basil O'Connor, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. All others in photo are unidentified. The group gathered for a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamp Ceremony outside Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

Hannegan Passing Out Stamps to Patients

Polio patients receive Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamps in Warm Springs, Georgia. Standing on the right side: Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (leftmost) and Basil O'Connor (rightmost), President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. All others in the photo are unidentified. The group gathered for a Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Stamp Ceremony outside Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

Truman and Postmaster General Donaldson

President Harry S. Truman (third from left) in the Oval Office in the White House is shown receiving from Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson (second from left) a sheet of the new Freedom Stamps, issued in honor of the Sesquicentennial of Washington, D.C. Carter T. Barron is on the other side next to President Truman and Joseph C. McGarraghy is standing next to him (3rd from the right). Assistant Postmaster General Joseph J. Lawler is on the far left. Others are unidentified.