Presidential campaign, 1948

President Harry S. Truman (near center, back to camera) talks with local politicians from the back of a train during a presidential campaign stop near Butte, Montana. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

President Harry S. Truman rides with an unidentified man in a motorcade in Butte, Montana, a stop on his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (Same as 66-667). From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

President Harry S. Truman speaks to a crowd from the rear platform of a train as he makes a whistlestop at an unknown location on his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

The two-man engine crew in the locomotive car of Santa Fe Train No. 26 which carried President Harry S. Truman on his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (Same as 59-310) From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

A crowd lines up to see President Harry S. Truman (not shown) as a band plays in his honor in Ephrata, Washington, a stop on his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

The Santa Fe train, No. 26, that carried President Harry S. Truman from Los Angeles, California, to Kansas City, Missouri, during his presidential campaign trip to the west coast. (Same as 66-758)

Crowd gathered in downtown Blackfoot, Idaho, waiting to see President Harry S. Truman as he makes a stop on his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (Same as 66-681). From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

A large crowd gathers on the ground to see President Harry S. Truman on the rear platform of his train on the tracks above during a stop in St. Louis, Missouri. He is returning to Washington, D. C. from a trip to the West Coast. All are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Reporters and others gather behind President Harry S. Truman's train at the Independence, Missouri railroad station, where the President will leave for Washington on the last leg of his trip to the West Coast. All are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

President Harry S. Truman (on rear platform, third from right) and others stand on the rear platform of a train and greet a crowd gathered at a railroad station in an unidentified eastern Missouri city. President Truman is headed back to Washington after a trip to the West Coast. Also present is Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly (on platform, right). All others are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.