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President Harry S. Truman (left) with Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee, during a radio interview. The President gave the interview as he traveled by train during his 1948 whistlestop Campaign.

Press Secretary Charles Ross receives a gift from an unidentified man in a lounge aboard a Truman campaign train. Others in the lounge are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

President Harry S. Truman waves to an audience from the rear platform of a train during a whistlestop on his presidential campaign trip to the west coast. Matthew Connelly is second from the right. The date and location are unknown. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Photo of a six-man train crew from one of President Harry S. Truman's whistlestop trains, taken on board in possibly a communications room. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Five young naval officers pose in a compartment on a train, probably performing services for President Harry S. Truman on his presidential campaign to the west coast. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

President Harry S. Truman exhibits a document from the rear platform of a train to the crowd gathered to greet him as he makes a whistlestop at an unidentified location. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

President Harry S. Truman (seated in car, left) sits in a car at a train station. The car is surrounded by newsmen as he makes a whistlestop at an unidentified city in Iowa. All others are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

One of the firemen sits in the cab of Santa Fe No. 26, the train that carried President Harry S. Truman to and from California on his trip to the West Coast. He is unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Three members of the train crew of Santa Fe No. 26 stand in front of the engine at a rail yard in Los Angeles, California. This is the train that carried President Harry S. Truman to and from the west coast on his trip. They are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Margaret Truman is surrounded by reporters as she holds a press conference on the train returning President Harry S. Truman and family to Kansas City after a presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (Same as 96-129) From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.