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[Harry Truman shaking hands with a woman, standing between two men] – Vintage Wall Art

[Harry Truman shaking hands with a woman, standing between two men], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Harry Truman shaking hands with a woman, standing between two men], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Harry Truman shaking hands with a woman, standing between two men]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Harry Truman appears here mid-handshake with a woman, with a man standing on either side of the pair, and the caption card identifies him only as "Pres." The record gives no date, so the setting and occasion have to be inferred from the scene itself. Truman served as the 33rd president from 1945 to 1953, and photographs of him greeting visitors and well-wishers were a staple of press coverage during those years. The card's sparse wording is a reminder that many photographs from this era reached archives with little more than a name and a title attached.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,250 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152093

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