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Title |
Truman with Fishing Pole at Whistle Stop During Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948 |
Object Name |
Negative |
Description |
Truman with Fishing Pole at Whistle Stop During Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948. Black and white negative of President Harry S. Truman holding a fishing pole presented to him by the Burlingame Lions Club for the "Shark's Derby."Truman is on his whistle-stop tour at the Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot during the 1948 Truman-Dewey presidential campaign. First Lady Bess Truman is holding a bouquet of flowers and facing President Truman with her back to the camera. Between the President and the First Lady is Burlingame Post Master John Broderick. 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 |
2015.001.00183.4 |
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. |
Search Terms |
Broderick, John Burlingame Burlingame Railroad Station Fishing Gear Lions Club Presidents Southern Pacific Railroad Trains Truman, Elizabeth (Bess) Truman, Harry S. Whistle Stop |
Subjects |
Clubs Fishing Fishing & hunting gear 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 |