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Title |
Truman Waves Goodbye During Whistle Stop at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948 |
Object Name |
Negative |
Description |
Truman Waves Goodbye During Whistle Stop at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948. Black and white negative of President Harry S. Truman (far right), First Lady Bess Truman (second to left), daughter Margaret Truman (far left) and a man in a pinstripe suit (center) waving goodbye to the crowd. Behind the First Lady is Burlingame Post Master John Broderick. The image was taken as the train slowly started to move south enroute to the next stop on the Truman whistle-stop tour during the 1948 Truman-Dewey presidential campaign. The Presidential Seal appears on the podium. The train behind the President is the Ferdinald Magellan, an armored Pullman train car originally used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for his whistle-stop tours. On the roof of the train are three loudspeakers pointing in three different directions. Part of a series of 9. |
Date |
October 1948 |
Photographer |
Pearl, Norton |
Studio |
Norton Pearl Photography |
Processing Method |
Black and White |
Catalog Number |
2015.001.00183.8 |
Collection |
Archival Collection |
Place |
Burlingame, CA |
Notes |
"Named after the Portuguese explorer, the Ferdinand Magellan (also known as U.S. Car. No. 1) is a former Pullman Company observation car which served as Presidential Rail Car, U.S. Number 1 from 1943 until 1958. The current owner Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami-Dade County, Florida, acquired it in 1959. The Ferdinand Magellan was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service on February 4, 1985." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan_(railcar)] "A whistle stop or whistle-stop tour is a style of political campaigning where the politician makes a series of brief appearances or speeches at a number of small towns over a short period of time. Originally, whistle-stop appearances were made from the open platform of an observation car or a private railroad car." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_stop_train_tour] |
People |
Broderick, John Truman, Bess Truman, Harry S. Truman, Margaret |
Search Terms |
Burlingame Burlingame Railroad Station Presidents Southern Pacific Railroad Trains Whistle Stop |
Subjects |
Political campaigns Presidential seal Presidents Press Trains Whistle-stop campaigning |
Copyright |
Norton Pearl Photography / San Mateo County Historical Association |
Credit line |
Norton Pearl Photography / San Mateo County Historical Association |