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Associated Press Truman Gets Haircut

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1410 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Kansas City, Missouri Type: Photograph Date: 29 June 1944 Pagination: 1 photo ; b&w Order a Copy

One image of Harry S. Truman getting a haircut from barber Frank Spina. Spina was Truman's barber for 26 years.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Spina, Frank, fl. 1944

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