Presidential campaign, 1948

A view of a large crowd of supporters gathered to hear President Harry S. Truman give a campaign speech. The President can be seen in the distance on the rear platform of a train making a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky. From: James F. Rourke.

President Harry S. Truman (right) chats with an unidentified young man on the back of a train making a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President will address a crowd of supporters. From: James F. Rourke.

Senator Virgil Chapman (center), Democrat, Kentucky, points out something of interest to President Harry S. Truman (left) as they view the crowd from the back of a train at a whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President is to make a campaign speech. Tom Underwood, Editor of The Lexington Leader, is on the right. From: James F. Rourke.

President Harry S. Truman converses with Tom Mooney (left), Mayor, Lexington, Kentucky; Senator Virgil Chapman (2nd from right), Democrat, Kentucky; and Tom Underwood (right), editor, Lexington Herald, on the back of a train making a campaign whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President will address a crowd of supporters. From: James F. Rourke.

A 1948 campaign poster showing a head-and-shoulders portrait of Thomas E. Dewey between two flags with the caption "Our President Thomas E. Dewey." From: Harold M. Slater, St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, Missouri

On the 1948 presidential campaign trail, President Harry S. Truman (second from right) makes an appearance on the speaker's platform with his supporters in "The Bronx", New York City. The identities of the others and the exact location are unknown. From: Jerome H. Spingarn.

On the 1948 presidential campaign trail, President Harry S. Truman (left) makes an appearance on the speakers' platform with his supporters in "The Bronx", New York City. The identities of the others and the exact location are unknown. From: Jerome H. Spingarn.

President Harry S. Truman stands behind the speaker on the rear platform of a train during a 1948 campaign stop in New Mexico. Of those who can be identified are Margaret Truman and General Harry Vaughan on the right behind Margaret. (See 64-828-1 thru 11.) From: Robert McKeal.

President Harry S. Truman (right) and an unidentified man are photographed on the rear platform of a train during a 1948 campaign stop in New Mexico. (See 64-828-1 thru 11.) From: Robert McKeal.

A car with a giant photo of President Harry S. Truman and unofficial Mayor of Harlem, Sherman Hibbitt drives down a street in Harlem, New York for the West Indian Day Parade. The car is driven by Frederick S. Weaver, the Director of Public Relations for the Community of Harlem. On the side of the car is a sign that says "A Vote for Truman is a Vote for Civil Rights." Hibbitt and Truman had met at the White House a few weeks before the parade, when the mounted photo was taken.