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Title |
Truman Receives Certificate During Whistle Stop at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948 |
Object Name |
Negative |
Description |
Truman Receives Certificate During Whistle Stop at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948. Black and white negative of President Harry S. Truman standing at the back of the presidential train car during his 1948 Truman-Dewey campaign whistle-stop tour at the Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot. Truman holds a "Certificate of Appreciation" presented to him by the Burlingame Lions Club. To his right is a freestanding silver microphone with the letters "KVSM." Part of a series of 9. |
Date |
October 1948 |
Photographer |
Pearl, Norton |
Studio |
Norton Pearl Photography |
Processing Method |
Black and White |
Catalog Number |
2015.001.00183.3 |
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] "Lions Clubs International (LCI) is an international secular, non-political service organization founded by Melvin Jones in 1917. As of April 2015, it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members in over 200 countries around the world. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, the organization aims to meet the needs of communities on a local and global scale." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Clubs_International] Accessed 07/06/2017. |
People |
Truman, Harry S. |
Search Terms |
Burlingame Burlingame Railroad Station Certificates Lions Club Presidents Southern Pacific Railroad Trains Whistle Stop |
Subjects |
Clubs 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 |