Presidential campaign, 1948

View of a road surrounded by an evergreen forest at the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado taken from President Harry S. Truman's train during his 1948 western presidential campaign. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

View of a rock formation at the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado taken from President Harry S. Truman's train during his 1948 western presidential campaign. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

View of foothills of the Rockies in Colorado taken from President Harry S. Truman's train during his 1948 western presidential campaign. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

View of a rock formation at the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado taken from President Harry S. Truman's train during his 1948 western trip. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

View of a solitary farm at the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado taken from President Harry S. Truman's train during his 1948 western presidential campaign. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

View of a lonely Utah landscape taken from President Harry S. Truman's train during his 1948 western trip. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

A solitary car rolls down a lonely road in Utah, as seen from President Harry S. Truman's train on his 1948 western trip. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

As seen from President Harry S. Truman's campaign train, a crowd gathers at a train station just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, to see the President during his 1948 western presidential campaign. From: Sgt. Howard (Bud) Williams.

President Harry S. Truman, behind an "NBC West" microphone, delivers a speech while on the campaign trail in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (at the railroad station). Others on the podium are unidentified. The photo is autographed as follows, but the author is not Truman: "To my good friends, Rita & Clarence, Harry." From: Olga Tsapina, The Curator of American Historical Manuscripts, The Huntington Library.

A photograph of an original 1948 campaign poster showing Harry S. Truman and Alben Barkley. The top banner of the poster reads "Beat High Prices". The copy below the photographs of Truman and Barkley read "Elect Harry S. Truman President Alben W. Barkley Vice-President." From: Ruth Elliot.