Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956

Group photo of the Presidential party at Key West, Florida. Left to right back row: Donald Dawson, Eben Ayers, General Robert Landry, General Harry Vaughan, Unidentified, Clark Clifford, Stanley Woodward, General Wallace Graham, Admiral Robert L. Dennison and two unidentified men. Front row: Bill Hassett, Alben Barkley, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy and John Steelman. Same as 66-910. From: Album from Captain Robert L. Dennison, USN.

Left to right: Senator Alben Barkley, Leslie Biffle and Captain Robert L. Dennison in an open car on their way to the Little White House in Key West, Florida. Same as 2012-43. Album from Captain Robert L. Dennison, USN.

Senator Alben Barkley alights from a Navy aircraft at Boca Chica, Florida, for a meeting with President Harry S. Truman. Same as 2012-35. From: Album from Captain Robert L. Dennison, USN.

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.

Vice President Alben Barkley and Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer (partially hidden)at a Washington Board of Trade for Airports Advisory Committee dinner.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and Vice President Alben Barkley wave to crowd before the reviewing stand, located in front of the White House, during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson (right) returned to Washington from a speaking engagement in California and was greeted by Vice President Alben W. Barkley (left) and Undersecretary of State James E. Webb. He arrived aboard the Presidential plane Sacred Cow after a 10-hour non stop flight from San Francisco.

Vice President Alben Barkley (left) and Secretary of State Dean Acheson exchange greetings--and smiles--at National Airport in Washington. Barkley went to the airport to welcome Acheson back to the Capitol from California, where he made a major speech at the University of California at Berkeley.

Vice President and Mrs. Alben W. Barkley enjoy a joke with their guests at a reception they gave in their Waldorf-Astoria Hotel suite just prior to the $100 a plate Democratic Party Dinner. Left to Right: Mrs. Max Truitt, Mr. Barkley's daughter; Mrs. William M. Boyle, Jr., Mr. William M. Boyle, Jr., Mrs. Barkley, Vice President Alben Barkley, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Mr. Boyle is chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Members of Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery flank the Presidential car with President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley as the parade forms east of the Capitol Building.