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Title |
Truman Speaking During Whistle Stop Campaign at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948 |
Object Name |
Negative |
Description |
Truman Speaking During Whistle Stop Campaign at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948. Black and white negative of President Harry S. Truman waving to a crowd during a Truman-Dewey Campaign whistle stop tour at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot. President Truman is speaking at a podium, at the base of which is the Presidential Seal. Attached to the podium is a large silver microphone. Directly behind him is Burlingame Post Master John Broderick and to his left is a man wearing a pinstripe suit. 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 |
2015.001.00183.2 |
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, Harry S. |
Search Terms |
Broderick, John Burlingame Burlingame Railroad Station Presidents Southern Pacific Railroad Trains Truman, Harry S. 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 |