Audiovisual Collection. 1957 - 2006. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman. 1957 - 2004. President Harry S. Truman and Vice President-elect sitting on the back of an open car in front of the White House. Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, Mrs. Max Truitt

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Audiovisual Collection. 1957 - 2006. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman. 1957 - 2004. President Harry S. Truman and Vice President-elect sitting on the back of an open car in front of the White House. Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, Mrs. Max Truitt, and three other men are also sitting in the car. A crowd is gathered behind the car. Truman and Barkley had just returned to Washington after their victory in the 1948 election.

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Harry S. Truman Library

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Rowe, Abbie, 1905-1967

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Abbie Rowe was a photographer for the National Park Service in Washington D.C., and had unprecedented access to the official activities of five Presidents from 1941 through 1967. He was born on August 23, 1905 in Strasburg, Virginia. He was first hired in 1930 with the Bureau of Public Roads, and went on to become a noted photographer for the National Capital Parks of the National Park Service. Many of his photographs documented public buildings and roads in and around the nation's capital. In D...