Presidential elections

Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan gives a speech in front of radio broadcast microphones on Election Night. Irving Geist is pictured far left in the background. All others unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (center) shakes hands with both former Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (foreground, left) and Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder (right) in St. Louis, Missouri, just prior to the 1948 presidential election. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (center) shakes hands with both former Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (left) and Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder in St. Louis, Missouri, just prior to the 1948 presidential election.

Senator and Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Harry S. Truman listens to the 1944 presidential election results on the radio at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Pictured (left to right): sister Mary Jane Truman; Senator Truman; brother J. Vivian Truman; Mrs. Bess Truman (seated); Margaret Truman; and niece Martha Ann Truman.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) exiting polls on Election Day in Hyde Park, New York. With President Roosevelt are unidentified Secret Service aides.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated in his car outside the polling station at the Town Hall in Hyde Park, New York after voting on Election Day. The photographers, reporters, and all others are unidentified.

The temporary quarters of the Veterans' Information Center in Washington, D.C., decorated to welcome President Harry S. Truman, who had just returned to Washington after his victory in the 1948 election.

Sign, "Welcome Home From the Crow-Eaters," on the front of the Washington Post Building in Washington, D.C. President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben W. Barkley had just returned to Washington after their victory in the 1948 election--a victory not predicted by the Washington Post.

A military band is standing on the front lawn of the White House. A large crowd is gathered in Jackson Park across the street. The crowd and band are celebrating the return of President Harry S. Truman and Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley to Washington, D.C. after their victory in the 1948 election. All are unidentified.

A large photograph of President Harry S. Truman and a "Welcome" sign beneath it, on the side of the temporary quarters of the Veterans' Information Center in Washington, D.C. Truman had just returned to Washington after his victory in the 1948 election.